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8 March 2014
Today, it is my turn to go to Khartoum’s railway station. I needed to buy my ferry from Wadi Halfa to Aswan. I got there easily by bus, having made the journey with Marius yesterday. I got there at 0915 and was out of there by 0930! There was a small crowd around the window […]
7 March 2014
As it was Friday, town was rather quiet. After a quick cuppa tea outside the Ethiopian Church, we took the buses to the train station. Here, Marius bought his train ticket to Wadi Halfa; a 50h journey. The process took about 2h as their smart web-based booking system wasn’t performing (anyway, I guess that’s the […]
6 March 2014
Today is our big excursion from Khartoum to the pyramids at Meroe. Marius and I left the hostel around 0800 and got to the bus station with a couple of hiccups due to lack familiarity with the minibus routes. We managed to walk straight on a bus bound for Shendi which was before Meroe; I […]
5 March 2014
I woke at 0545 and stayed in bed till about 0730. There was no point getting out of bed too early as the Nova Airways office at the airport didn’t open till 0930. I walked there and when I tried to pay, they said that it wasn’t possible for me to go on Saturday anymore. […]
4 March 2014
Arriving in Khartoum Parts of the 11h wait at Riyadh dragged on. I tried keeping myself occupied and it did help. I had some really sleepy moments but became more awake in time for my 0540 flight to Khartoum. Once again, Saudia fed me well on the 3h flight. I arrived into a cloudy Khartoum […]
3 March 2014
Leaving KL Things couldn’t have been better with an 1100 checkout from the hotel and a 1500 departure. That’s until I tried hailing a taxi outside the hotel in gridlock traffic at 1100 in competition with a couple of other people. I gave up and climbed up the ladder to the skybridge to get to […]
14 January 2014
As our departure to Auckland was 1920 in the evening, we didn’t need to leave the city till 1530. That meant we had time for picking up a few bargains from the shops around Wan Chai and having a long massage. We didn’t set out to buy anything but there are too many quality items […]
12 January 2014
This morning, we had better luck with taxis getting the Japanese Germ Warfare Experimental Base, which was in the south side of Harbin city. The ride took about 45 minutes and upon reaching there, we decided to get the taxi driver to wait and keep the meter running; it wasn’t the kind of place we […]
11 January 2014
Mark arrived from Beijing last night after a 2 hour delay. We only bad a brief chat then, so I had a better catch up with him over breakfast. We had planned on going to the Siberian Tiger Park and there was no reason to change the plan. The hotel taxi drivers were around and […]
10 January 2014
As if to repeat yesterday morning, we explored our neighbourhood to start off the day. We found the old Jewish area where Jews from Russia and Europe settled to escape persecution. We didn’t have many things we wanted to do today, as we planned on saving some activities for when Mark (a friend living in […]