DAY 115. TUES. 29/05. Shehedi to Gonder. 163 kms. Total 24360. Belegez Pension. N12 36.633 E37 28.316 Continued along the gravel road only reaching tar just before Gonder. Arrived quite early around lunchtime at the neat and clean Belegez Pension. Went for a walk around town - 1stly changed some money at the bank/Moneygram office. Then went to find a place to eat to try the unique Ethiopian cuisine & beer, which Rob had been dying for during the heat of the ...

DAY 109. WED. 23/05. Khartoum. 51 kms. Total 23580 kms. National Camping. N15 31.478 E32 34.177Drove into the city today with the aim of getting all the chores out of the way in one go so we could spend the rest of the time working on Cathey. Rear suspension bushes needed to be replaced as we were getting some bad “rear wheel steering” on the fast tar road sections down from Dongola. On the outside the front rear bushes looked OK but on the inside the...

DAY 105. SAT. 19/05. Dongola to past Abu Dom. 235 kms. Total 22743 kms. Bushcamp N18 01.992 E31 25.984After breaking camp we headed back to the Dongola ferry on the east bank at N19 10.663 E30 29.637 and must have just caught morning rush hour as we joined a lengthy queue of nearly identical white Toyota pick-ups/bakkies with colourful decorations. (the main taxi/local transport vehicle) Inga went to sort out a ticket while Rob reinflated the tires. At 1st they w...

DAY 102. WED 16/05. Wadi Halfa to Abri. 180 kms. Total 22220 kms. Bushcamp along the Nile. N20 49.174 E30 25.677 Paid for the hotel (7SP = 3.5 $ per person) before heading back to the customs building/port on our own 15 minutes before we were due to meet our man clearing the cars. Under the pretense that we needed photographs from the car 1st before we could register with the police but actually we wanted to check out costs for clearing the vehicles for ourselve...

DAY 97. FRI 11/05. Luxor to Aswan. 245 kms. Total 21931 kms. Adam's Home (Camp) N24 10.135 E32 51.971 Reluctantly got ready to leave Luxor and Rezeiky Camp. Had a very nice stay here, even managed to get our gas bottle filled up here which was a bonus as we hadn't been expecting to be able to do this until Kenya. Also had met lots of fun people here and now we had to leave - Rolf and Heike were heading north to Jordan and the Dutch were hanging around a while lo...