A band of cultivated land around the river and after the desert : typical scenery along the Nile.
Meroe :
  
Meroe is one of the only historic places of Sudan... night before arriving
  



                
              hitch-hiking in the desert on the steps of La Gazelle
  



                                                           

                near the temple, the wheel of nearly 100 meters deep must
              be as old as the ruins around
  
                                                           only water point, it is also the meeting point

Suakin :

just before arriving on the Red sea, we cross a beautiful mountain chain
  
Suakin is the old important sea port of Sudan. It is now a ruins field, but stay the compulsory and historic way out
for the hadj (muslim pilgrimage to Mecca).
  even the police station seems to be old.

  

  
not enough sand...                                         too much road...
  arrival in Port Sudan
Port Sudan :
  
kinder gardens
              

  
eulogy of coffee as a round about                          individual coffee in the street
  

                



  
a few days of farniente on the Red sea before reaching Saudi Arabia
                                                           

  

  

                     


                                                  by duj