We have arrived in Khartoum after a long hot days riding. We have to register with the police within three days and spent the afternoon being chased from pillar to post trying to get this done. No-one seems to know what is happening and to ride around in the heat and the traffic is unreal! We are going to camp at the Blue Nile Sailing ClubCamp site - there is no camp site and the facilities are disgusting, but at least our tent is clean!! We hope to leave once we have done our registration, can't take a chance with this as there are police check points every 50km or so. I hope that Sudan improves as we get to the further north as we have not been overly impressed with what we have seen so far!
At one of the police check points we met with Yves again, the young Swiss guy we last saw on the Marsabit road and we travelled together. We did try the first camp site called the Sudan National Camp Site just as we came into Khartoum but there are 2000 Sudanese refuges from Libiya been housed there and it was like a mad house when we were there. Cost for that pleasure is $1 per night!!
We managed to get my bike welded again today so hopefully we will be on fair roads from now on and won't have this problem again. Light is fading fast and we have to put up a tent still and I would prefer to brave the showers with a little light. The manager of the camp was really funny when asked why so expensive he replied that it is the same price as in Europe and the States and Yves said but your facilities are disgusting, he honestly could not see that they are bad!! Not even going to check this, light getting too bad! Will try and get photos on later!
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