Early morning at the Port Sudan long distance bus station |
Departing Port Sudan for the bus ride to Kassala - around 600 km |
Passing through the Red Sea Hills on the road between Suakin and Sinkat |
The rugged Red Sea Hills of northeastern Sudan |
Driving through the Red Sea Hills southwest of Suakin |
I'd call them mountains - the Red Sea Hills |
Large mosque in Sinkat, the first break where, of course, I was challenged by the Secret Police |
...papers in order, I was free to continue my bus journey to Kassala |
Sudan Railway line linking Port Sudan and the railway hub of Atbara |
Beyond Sinkat, the Red Sea Hills give way to sparsely populated barren desert |
Eastern face of a thousand foot peak rising out of the desert north of the village of Tahamyam |
The same mountain from the south |
The desert between Sinkat and Haiya |
Haiya, Sudan - a large town of low mud houses where the roads to Atbara and Kassala split |
Heading south from Haiya, we pass nomad camps similar to those I saw in Mali |
Desolate |
Another nomad camp with several more permanent mudbrick buildings |
Between Haiya and Kassala |
Donkey cart passes by as the bus takes another break in its ca 10 hour journey from Port Sudan to Kassala |
The second rest stop - I managed to elude the attention of the Secret Police here |
Rest stop between Haiya and Kassala |
I must say I was sort of dreading the long bus ride, but it really wasn't bad at all... |
Quite a bit of green compared to what we had been going through... |
Small village north of Kassala |
Dust devil swirling by a village |
Maybe these tent-like villages are a little more permanent than I first thought... |
...not much to look at... |
...something's got all the men's attention... |
Arid ountains with a little bit of green |
...glad I'm not on a camel... |
...moonscape... |
...this MUST be a difficult place to make a living... |
I have to wonder...what brings them to live here...there's really *nothing* |
"Downtown" |
Tiny settlement on a vast empty plain |
Wasteland of Eastern Sudan around 100 miles north of Kassala |