Weeklong tour from Khartoum through Dongola to Meroe and multiple smaller sites
Right outside Hotel Acropole in Khartoum. Actually safe to go out at night here.
Had no issues with nighttime strolls here.
Driving out of Khartoum
Low visibility on our first transit day
Sometimes the sand dunes start invading the highway
Buying bread outside Khartoum
Old Dongola at sunset
Camping near Old Dongola
Pottery shards just everywhere in Old Dongola, some of the pieces even have little hints of painted motifs.
Lunchtime at the dig site in Old Dongola
Karima, most of the pyramids are just foundations, pilfered by locals over the centuries. Some of the tombs have been excavated partially.
Jebel El Berkl, hiking to the top gives a view of Karima below and in the distance.
We picked up a group of local kids that followed us around on top and down the mountain.
Tomb in Karima
Nuri pyramids
Racing camels... they keep them underfed for this. Didn't seem like the happiest camels exactly.
Jebel El Barkl pyramids
Jebel El Barkl
Looks like they had a Cheesecake Factory location in ancient Sudan.
These drinking camels seemed like the happiest in all of Sudan.
Gathering water at a nomadic well far out in the desert
Meroe Pyramids
Photo credit: Greg Cain, taken at Meroe
Camping at Meroe Pyramids
Next morning at Meroe, locals encircled our camp with a makeshift market around our camp, certain we wanted trinkets and camel rides.
"Honeymoon room", hard to actually make out exactly what is being done to who, but you get the idea.
Khartoum National Museum
Sufi Dervish dancing... huge crowd at a mosque connected to a cemetery in Khartoum. This was really something to witness in person.
