I can’t believe that it’s already been a week since I went to Shendi. I visited some friends in Shendi last Friday. It’s about a 2.5 hour drive from Khartoum. It’s beautiful in parts. There is a stretch that is particularly green because the crops and trees get irrigation from the Nile River. It provided a stark contrast to the mostly rocky, brown landscape that we drove through most of the way. A series of what I imagine once were mountain ranges that have been ravaged by the wind and sun follow the road on both sides. There are arge potholes and huge speedbumps in some parts of the road; you arrive on them suddenly, without warning. I was riding in a 4WD but it still jolted when we went too quickly over some of them. The effect of the trucks carrying goods and pulling containers from Port Sudan is clear; the side of the road leading to Khartoum is markedly worst with cracks and tears in it.
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