The Northern Regions of Sudan

Sudan is the actual name of the ancient Nubia and it comes from the Arabic Bilad as-Sudan that means "country of black people".  

The history of "Nubia" has always been strictly connected with the history of the big river that runs through it: the Nile.  The Nubian history is therefore interlaced with the history of Egypt, the country of the Pharaohs, that is and lives along the big river.

Northern Sudan is considered as "another Egypt" as it has always been the crossing area between the two Africas: the white Africa that overlooks the Mediterranean, Egyptian at the beginning, later Greek and Roman, and the other Africa, the black one rich in charm of a partly still mysterious continent.

This "mixture" has created a very interesting country, both from a historical-archaeological point of view, but also for those who are interested in desert environments or in real people, still unknown to tourism.

Its history has always been complex and troubled and still today 40 years after its independence it has not reached a balance yet, with political instability that causes problems in the deep southern region, anyway far from the areas interested by our tourist activities.

Along the central axis of the territory runs the Nile, or better still the two rivers called White Nile and Blue Nile.

At the north of Khartoum, after the meeting of the two rivers, the Nile is called "El Bahr", meaning "the sea", by the local people.

In the Northern regions, those interested by our travels, the level evenness of the environment is interrupted by the rocky formations of the Nile Cataracts, four of them in Sudanese territory.  Right in the middle of these formations there are spectacular villages, inhabited by wonderful people with an exceptional helpfulness and kindness towards the foreigners.