48 Hours in Sudan 2018: Pyramids, Dervishes, and UNESCO Sites!
48 Hours in Sudan
After having explored most of the Middle Eastern countries reachable within a short flight from Dubai, we just had to do one last unexpected trip before saying goodbye to the UAE - so we picked exploring the Sudan with our friends!
A short non-stop Flydubai flight away, Sudan is home to many pyramids (more than Egypt, fact!), welcoming people, unique traditions and unbelievable raw beauty.
A true gem and yet-to-be-discovered off the beaten path destination, Sudan has so much to offer for a quick escape from the UAE, that you’ve probably never even heard about let alone dreamed of visiting.
48 Hours in Sudan | Day 1: Market, Sudan Museum and Dervish Ceremony
After a convenient 4-hour Flydubai flight from Dubai arriving in Khartoum at 10pm (no time to waste!), we received a warm welcome at the Khartoum International Airport by our tour company driver, who brought us to our hotel for the first night, the Acropole.
Useful information:
Currency: Sudanese Pound
Language: Arabic
Time change: UTC/GMT +2 hours
Best time to visit: October-April
Dress Code: Conservative
Alcohol: Sudan is a completely dry country - do not bring any alcohol in!
We started our 48 Hours in Sudan with an early visit to the bustling Friday market at the center of Khartoum. Food, clothes, even kitchen appliances were displayed, and the atmosphere was truly incredible. We felt totally in sync with the ambiance, and not completely as out of place as we could have imagined.
Make sure to not film or take pictures too much though, as locals don’t particularly like it, understandably. Unlike so many markets or souqs around the world that we have visited, there was no being bothered, hassled or barked at, everyone was just living their lives and we were so happy to just observe. Such is the case in a country with such few tourists.
We then visiting Omdurman, the old capital of Sudan, the Mahdi’s tomb and the Khalifa’s house, we headed to the Sudanese National Museum, home of many beautiful objects and two full temples rescued by UNESCO and moved from the Lake Nasser area, when it was flooded by the water.
As we do with most trips, we pulled a classic Jeff and Anne, barely researching anything before going, so it was a great start to our trip getting to know a little bit better the country we were in. Some people prefer to travel after exhaustive research into where they are going, we like to do the complete opposite, just show up and discover what is around us as it happens.
Around 4pm each Friday, a very unique Dervish ceremony takes place, near the tomb of the sufi leader Ahmed al Nil. The Dervishes ceremony gathers women, men and children together every week to pray, dance and sing together in one of the largest cemeteries in Khartoum, outside of a small mosque. We were lucky enough to be warmly welcomed around the prayers.
Not far from here there is an interesting site of petrified wood, an ancient forest with hundreds of huge trunks strewn out completely in the middle of a vast desert with little explanation. Later on we reached the necropolis of Nuri. After a little walk among these ancient ruins, we stumbled upon the pyramid of Pharaoh Taharqa dominating high above the the others. After the visit we reached our beautiful Nubian Rest-House, located just at the foot of the Jebel Barkal, with the small town of Karima situated nearby. We ate some delicious food, took a hot shower to get rid of the dust and passed out.
48 Hours in Sudan | Day 2: Jebel Barkal and Meroe Pyramids
After a delicious breakfast at the Rest-House, we headed over to visit the Jebel Barkal area. A landmark in the Nubian Desert, the Jebel Barkal can be seen from a few dozen kilometres whilst still in the open desert.
A huge rock mountain in the middle of desolate sand a few hundred meters from the banks of the River Nile.
At the foot of this wonderful and isolated red sandstone mountain, considered holy since the ancient times, there is a big temple, dedicated to the Pharaohs of the New Reign and to their patron, Amon. Amon's ancient Pure Mountain, the Olympus of the Nubians, was the religious Nubian heart for more than 1000 years.
The Jebel Barkal archaeological sites are on the World Heritage list and the royal necropolis of the ancient city of Napata, the Nubian capital before the Meroitic period, had a large number of pyramids, located in three different places: few hundred metres north of Jebel Barkal; a dozen kilometres southwards from the holy mountain, in El Kurru; in Nuri...
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Sudan - Cairo to Khartoum | Travel video in 4K | 2017 | Panasonic GX80
The best of our unforgettable adventure trip of Sudan.
Our journey began in Egyptian Cairo, from where we traveled to Aswan. thence across the Nasser Lake to Sudan, to the Wadi Halfa.
After Wadi Halfa to scenic Abri, to Karima to the ancient Nubian Pyramids of Jebel Barkal, across Atraba to the Pyramids of Meroe. Subsequently, by a cargo train through an arid desert to Port Sudan, a short flight to the Khartoum and home to the Czech Republic.
Meroe Pyramids (Sudan)
Méroé est une cité antique de Nubie (Soudan), connue pour ses nécropoles à pyramides à forte pente. Le site est inscrit sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 2003. Le royaume koush de Méroé, qui a donné son nom à l'île de Méroé, est une région limitée par le Nil Bleu (de la rivière Atbara à Khartoum, 220 km plus au sud)
Sudan - Tuti Island
Tutu Island at the point where the Blue Nile and the White Nile merge is a small, quiet oasis that feels more like a village that is surrounded by Khartoum and Omdurman. We visit a brick factory and walk between the corn fields.
We visited Sudan on our overland trip from the Netherlands to South Africa and South America; see our playlist
SUDAN - Tourist Countries 2
Tourist Countries - Red sea - River Nile - Mogrn(BlueNile & WhiteNile) gathering place - Mountains - pyramids ( Meroe & Bjrawia) - SUDAN - { Africa - SUDAN } .
Sudan: Street of Dongola スーダン ドンゴラの街
From my trip to Sudan in December 2012. Dongola is a small Nubian twon in the north of Sudan. 2012年12月のスーダン旅行から
Pyramids of Nubia in North Sudan
Pyramids of Nubia in North Sudan
Nubian pyramids or Pyramids of Meroe, Sudan were built by the ruler of the ancient Kushite Kingdoms. North Sudan takes the Nile Valley, where the pyramids of Nubia. History of Nubia, this rivalry with the more ancient pyramids of Egypt, are located nearby. At various time in the territory of Nubia were three Kushit Kingdoms — The oldest, Kerma, appeared in 2600 BC, which existed before 1520 BC; The second was the Kingdom of Napata (from 1000 through 300th BC) and the third, the most famous was the Meroë 300 BC to 300 AD. Nubians have always wanted to become a better and more powerful than Egypt. This led them to the fact that the king Kashta, in 770 BC conquered most of the territory of Egypt, but it was only able to manage his son Phoraoh Pi. This period in Nubia and Egypt is called Twenty-Fifth dynasty rule. and it ended with the arrival of the Assyrians in 656 BC. At this time there were built the first Pyramid, and the king Kashta was the first ruler to be buried inside the pyramid for the last 800 years years with his tomb and the construction of 223 Nubian pyramids. Constitutions continued for centuries.
Also Kashta and his son were buried in pyramids some of there successors and fourteen queens. Pyramid in the Pharaoh Taharqa was buried - is the largest of the pyramids, of 52 square meters at the base and more than 40 meters in height. When the body was placed in a grave granite sarcophagi, some of which weighted more than 15 tones. The number of pyramids focused on the Central Sudan, Meroe. Today it is considered one of the largest archaeological sites. Here lie more than 40 kings and queens on every ward in a separate pyramids. Seeking to surpass the Egyptians, Nubians build twice as many pyramids, but ahead of them in amounts, could surpass in quality. Nubians pyramids devoid of beauty and grandeur of its predecessors: they were built in the form of steps of stone blocks, the width of which rarely exceeded eight meres. The average height of the Nubians pyramids is 20-30 meters, there are even six miters high pyramid. Fro comparison, the Egyptian pyramids of the same height had reason to five times more than the Nubian, and going up at an angle of 40 - 50 degrees, that is the Nubian pyramids, this angle is as much as 70 degrees.
Nubain pyramids were built in the shape of the tomb, which established the top bit of the chapel, where religious rites. Wall reliefs preserved images of these ceremonies - here you can see how the mummified royal personages, as they dressed up and decorated with jewels, and then laid to eternal rest in wooden coffins. And even though they look Nubian pyramids are not see impressive, they buried more royals than their Egyptian predecessors.
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