Khartoum, Sudan

I crossed the border and I was soon in Khartoum. I didn't quite know what t expect but just a hundred years ago there wasn't much here so there is little of any historical and there is a lot of concrete and glass. A view of the sunrise looking east on my first full day.

Some of the many boats that lie rusting on the edge of the river. Tourism has fallen away and these are surplus to requirements.

I was staying at the Nile Sailing Club and they have Lord Kitcheners gunboat that fought at the Battle of Omdurman 1898

It lies on the banks of the rover framing one side of the car park.

And under some trees which obscure it.

Not far from the city are the Meore Pyramids, even older than the Egyptian pyramids but they have smaller bases and steeper sides.

They lost their tops in the late nineteenth century when an Italian used explosives to look inside for treasure.

But they are still majestic.

And they also have peons at the entrance.

Sunrise at the Meroe pyramids.

It was a hot day but here was an irrigation tank bing filled from a well so we stopped and had a bath to cool off at the side of the road.

An unusual cloud lit from behind.

The ferry across Lake Nasser that takes traffic to Abu Simbel, the great temple of Rameses.