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Sudan

You wonder what keeps it a float.
Nile River
You cross from dirt road to dirt road on the otherside of the river.
During the quick crossing old friends catch up on what is happening.
A local woman crossing alone
Kids riding a donkey... 3 on a donkey that is. We find ourselves sharing space with people, donkeys, camels and goats.
Check out the local transportation
Local mosque
We stopped to buy some of the delicious bread made daily. Young boy checking out the strangers,, us.
The Bayuda Desert is an area bounded by the loop formed by the Nile between the 4th and the 6th Cataract and characterized by the sharp black basalt mountains. Most of them volcanic and typically cone shaped.
The area alternates with level pebble stretches and large valleys crossed by dry wadis, a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.
Little vegetation survives with dorcas gazelles can be seen.
Only isolated groups of Bisharin nomads, who live in familiar groups in small huts made of intertwined branches close to rare water wells, with their caravans and herds of camels and donkeys exist.
A well, rare in the area
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The Bisharin speak the Beja language as a mother tongue but they also speak Egyptian Arabic
The Bisharin are traditionally nomadic people, working in husbandry of camels, sheep, and goats in the Southern part of the Eastern Desert
The temperatures in the area can reach into the 110 and higher.
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It's an area that is off the beaten path- largely unexplored. Of the tribes in the area, this tribe lives in the more remote areas.

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