Great to wakeup to gaze across the Blue Nile. Just by us is a (very small) gunboat that Kitchener brought up the Nile for the battle of Omdurman (10,000 natives killed for just 48 Brits). Now theoretically used as a office, but not even any office of mine has ever looked as bad as this!
First off we had a long look around the open air souk (actually in Omdurnan but now all one city) - seemed much larger to me than, say, Damascus or Marrakech - with me in increasingly desperate need of additional handkerchiefs - long long search but eventual success (thank goodness!).
Then it was on to Khartoum's real claim to fame, the confluence of the White and the Blue Nile. Surely one of the geographical highlights of Africa, but you are hard pushed to find it - you have to go into a "family amusement park" to get anything like a reasonable view, but it is interesting to see the difference between the water of the two rivers. (White Nile to the left, Blue to the right).
Bad news this evening. Not only do we need to pay $35 for our long delayed registration process, but we now also need to pay a further $180 for the $50 visa we obtained in Aswan. We are not happy!
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