Nice Saturday on the Town

Saturday we decided to hit the local shopping mall. It was 1/2 closed as many people do not work on Saturdays in Sudan. Remembering that Fri and Sat are the weekend and everyone returns to work on Sunday.

The mall consisted of a main store - a cross between grocery store and department store. It had only one floor and was about 60% food items and 40% house items and clothing and toys ect.. like a very basic wallmart. It was about the size of the Highland farms beside my house. The prices were a little high and there was not a great variety. One shelf unit would contain only two products but there would be an endless supply of those two products.

I bought some food to get me through the weekend. And some food to try loike powder milk... Just in case I need it at my team site.

We ate lunch at the malls food court. It was ok... The meals are more about the salad, soup and bread then the meat. The meat portions are always small by our standards. I had a Shish Kabob Chicken...

Once we got back to Canada house we asked if the security guard (called RAMBO..no I am not kidding) would be interested in giving us a tour of the city and show us the Sudan Museum. He said yes and off we went. When we arrived at the museum we found that it was closed. We carried on to view the Blue and White Niles.. This is how Khartoum receicved its name. The Blue Nile and White Nile meet in the centre of Khartoum and become the Nile. The nile flows North to Egypt. As a side note the nile was first successfully fully explored by Canadians!! Thats right it was our Voaguers that were hired by the Queen and the Canadian government to go to Africa and map out the Nile.

There wasn't too much more to see in Khartoum :( there is no tourist places. There is a boat tour that goes along the Nile. It has been reported that you pass an area where there are people hanging. Public hangings/executions are still performed here.

Sat night, I watched a movie and poped more cold medication...