Your journey will begin at Khartoum where you will visit the National Museum and the Ethnographic Museum. Travel to Meroe, an ancient city along the Nile and a home to a large Nubian community. The trip will end in Meroe before you return to Khartoum for your onward destination.
Highlights
Duration: 10 days
Start: Khartoum-Sudan
End: Khartoum-Sudan
Countries visited: Sudan
Category: Mini- adventure
Single Supplement: $280
Operating days: every day
Departure time: 0830 hours
Departure point: Accommodation pick-up
Arrival point: Accommodation drop- off
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Arrive at Khartoum and rest at Khartoum Plaza hotel. Check-in and the rest of the day is at leisure. Overnight and dinner at Corinthia Hotel
After breakfast, drive to Old Dongola Old, a deserted town in what is now Northern State. This site has the remains of a 7th century AD church with 16 granite columns with finely decorated capitals that are separated and lie in the sand. Overnight will be at Dongola Plaza.
Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, you’ll visit Dongola Market later drive to Sai Island, a large island with a big concentration of many different archaeological sites: from the Kerma necropolis, Egyptian to Meroitic temples, Christian churches to a Turkish fort. Proceed to Sadenga a Nubian village, the prominent relics in this village are the queen Tiyi temple and the very rich Merritt cemetery, many built-in forms of small muddy pyramids, reflecting the wealth that brought to the town that time by trade with Egypt. Before sunset drive to Soleb Guest House for dinner and overnight.
Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Early Morning visit Soleb, best known for the ruins of the sandstone temple built by the 18th Dynasty ruler Amenhotep III, the southernmost major expression of that pharaoh’s vast building program, paralleling – it is thought – the northernmost great monument at Athribis (Tell Attrib) in the eastern Delta region. Dinner and overnight at Nubian Homestay
Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, drive to Karima, the land holds many secrets of the past in its hieroglyphic covered tombs, pyramids, and temples. Proceed to the Necropolis of Elkurru explore the petrified Forest. After lunch, you will catch the sunset at Jebel Barkel. Dinner and overnight at Merowe Tourist Village.
Meals. Breakfast, Dinner
Early morning after breakfast hit Market, then drive to Necropolis of Nuri, then to Kassinger Islands to take a cruise to explore lost heaven with the huge non used natural potential the island carries. A wide range of trees, palms close to a forest, sands, rocks, and small waterfalls around the Nile, all lay in the east of Karima city in Marawi state. Before the nightfall, you will drive back to Merowe Tourist Village for dinner and overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Drive to Meroe early in the morning. It is the ancient city along the Nile, and home to Nubians ruins. You will also take a visit to the lion temple of Naqa, Musawwarat es-Sufra, and the pyramids of Meroe. All meals to be prepared at the camp/Raidan village; Spend your overnight at Raidan camp
Meal(s) Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Take your tour of Meroe also known as the Nubia after an early breakfast. Board 4×4 and drive Naqa and Mussawarat, UNESCO heritage site, where you will discover the ancient temple remains such as The Lion Temple, Roman Kiosk, The Great Enclosure, and The Apedemak. Proceed to Salalouka 5th cataract near the confluence of the Nile and Atbara Rivers. Dinner and overnight will be at Salalouka Resort.
Meals. Breakfast, Dinner
Today you will rise up early in the morning to the hike at Mountain around the cataract area. After the hike, you will have your breakfast, board a cruise to explore the 5th cataract in the river Nile. Visit the zoo to see the crocodiles, monkeys, Tortoise, and other animal species. In the afternoon drive to Khartoum, dinner and overnight will be at Khartoum Plaza
Meals. Breakfast, Dinner
After Breakfast, Visit the Sudan National Museum, Palace Museum, Omdurman Market, Mehdi Tomb, Tuti Island, a cruise around the confluence of White and Blue Nile. Explore the Antaya yard (handcrafts market) to get yourself a souvenir. You will be dropped at the airport in the afternoon to catch your next flight.
Meal(s): Breakfast
