Tag: Sudan

“The desert is too vast to accommodate lies.”

This is how Brahim, our 63-year-old Tuareg guide, explained why things are different in the desert. Brahim was the human GPS who guided our expedition to Libya for a front-row view of the solar eclipse in 2006.

Our long history of Saharan travel began in the early 1980s, when we opened the agency. Those first 4×4 routes through Algeria and Morocco gradually expanded. Mauritania, Tunisia, Niger, Egypt and years after the Chad, Sudan and Libya completed our range of trips to the Sahara Desert.

Just a few years ago, you could visit the Nubian pyramids and even climb to the top.

Climbing them is no longer allowed, but it is still possible to visit with very few other people around. Judging by the changes we have seen in recent years, tourism is likely to increase soon, bringing restrictions to preserve the site.

Today we announced the winner of the competition for a place on the familiarisation trip to Sudan. It is Eva Vicent from the Veuremón travel agency in Sabadell. Many congratulations!

She made it through every qualifying challenge to win the prize.

We are going to Sudan and would love you to join us. In fact, we are inviting you. But we only have one place, and this message is for all the travel agents we have not yet met — and there are many of you.

That's why we encourage you to participate in #sudancontuareg a competition organised by Viajes Tuareg and Turkish Airlines in which the winner travel to Sudan for 10 days to discover the country’s wonders first-hand. This is no ordinary trip; what you will discover there belongs in the category of the extraordinary.

When we think of pyramids the first thing our mind visualizes are the pyramids of Egypt. Did you know that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, yet sees almost no tourists? A rare luxury in today’s world of mass tourism.

Sudan is an African country which, like Egypt, has many pyramids and also bears witness to the natural talent of the human being and also its history. It is a wonderful place where we can touch the past with our fingertips, yet sadly it seems to have been forgotten. Sudan is one of the countries receiving the fewest tourists each year.

An alternative way to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Toast the New Year in faraway lands and replace the traditional grapes with olives, nuts or whatever you can find along the way.

Even if just for once, we suggest 12 destinations, or in other words, 12 trips to leave the fading year behind and start a new one doing one of the things you enjoy most: travelling.

Look at the travel selection in small groups, with itineraries designed to spend Christmas and/or New Year’s Eve in truly special places.

It's only a few days before Easter 2019, but we still have places for some destinations. For last-minute travellers, here are a few options with spaces remaining.

Choose your theme and decide on your destination clicking here.!

ARCHAEOLOGY, OASES AND DESERTS 

SUDAN. Nubia and the Nile >> Trip departing on 11 April. 11 days
Spectacular archaeological treasures and truly hospitable people accompany us as we travel up the Nile from Khartoum.

OMAN. The Secret of Arabia >> Trip departing on 9 April. 9 days
A journey through mountains up to 3000 m high, huge dunes reaching the sea and the Indian Ocean as a backdrop.