Name: MICHAEL PALIN | Pole to Pole | Shifting Sands | NORTH AFRICA | EPISODE - 4
Uploaded: 2025-01-08T12:42:14.000Z
Duration: 49 min 15 s
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["Pomp and Circumstance"] ["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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Sudan, the biggest country in Africa, is an overnight ferry ride from Egypt.

Yeah, we just want to know how to get to Wadi Halfa.

Okay, well, if you point me the way, I'll...

It all seems to be going swimmingly, when suddenly, my guide isn't there anymore.

I've been in unfamiliar places on this trip, but never felt quite such an outsider.

Staunch ally of Saddam Hussein, supporter of the Russian generals and their coup against Gorbachev?

Okay, you go to the hotel from Wadi Halfa, the centre.

Well, Sudan is clearly a very eccentric country.

If I'm going to get the most out of life here,

I think I'd better forget I've ever been anywhere else in the world.

The old town disappeared under the waters of Lake Nasser 29 years ago.

Despite its name, the best hotel now only looks out over desert sands.

The owner has photos of the old Nile Hotel with balconies and river views.

In the Sudan, a bit of shade is worth the price of admission alone.

In Wadi Halfa, the hottest part of the day lasts from 9 in the morning till 9 in the evening.

At sunset, I visit Abdullah Ahmed Adam, the governor who'd made our ferry trip possible.

The train is supposed to take about 48 hours.

But due to some difficulties, sometimes it takes more.

What sort of difficulties might we encounter?

Maybe the pulling force for the locomotives.

My last journey from Khartoum, I came by train.

By next morning, the Nile Hotel is full to bursting.

The water jars are all empty, but I'm directed to the executive washroom.

I go in search of food for the journey ahead.

The train from Khartoum, which should run twice a week, has just arrived for the first time in a month.

The resources of Wadi Hausha are at full stretch.

There's no famine here, but no surplus either.

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