Wandering Footsteps: Wandering the World One Step at a Time » A travel journal following a family on their overland trip around the world.

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  • Welcome to Wandering Footsteps, the travel journal of a nomadic family on an overland trip around the world. With thirty years of travel experience, a round-the-world trip already under our belt, a newly-converted bus, and a new baby in tow, this journey is bound to be interesting! Join us in our global wanderings - we've saved an extra seat just for you!

    - Brittany, Bruno, and Phoenix

Posted in Asia,Middle EastTags: ,

It was finally time to leave Africa. We had our Saudi Arabian transit visas, we had our tickets for the ferry to Jeddah, and now, all we had to do was board the ferry from Suakin and leave Africa behind.
It was easier said than done.

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  • muritala - Can I enter saudi are bian with Nigeria passport for humura andhajjiReplyCancel

    • Brittany - I think so. We saw many Africans traveling home from Saudi after Hajji. Sorry we don’t know more details, but best of luck.ReplyCancel

  • Yusuf - i enjoy reading this story, i plan my jouney next year (2018) from nigeria.ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Hi Yusuf, best of luck on your journey next year! I hope you will enjoy! Thank you very much for saying hello. 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Matthew Ames - Love this thanks. Planning to it it in January 2017.ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Best of luck! It’s a fantastic and fascinating journey!ReplyCancel

  • Denis Le Jeune - I have a South African registered RHD LandRover Defender which we’ve driven from Cape Town to Lalibela Ethiopia. I’ve been told Saudi Arabia won’t allow RHD vehicles to use the highway. Is this correct?
    Denis Le Jeune Cape TownReplyCancel

    • Brittany - According to our information, this is indeed correct. Unfortunate for you. Best to head through Egypt!

      Best of luck, and enjoy the road.ReplyCancel

  • Amila - Hi
    I was working on the ferry boat on 199’s era. it was so different experience for me. OH AND S regulations were only for rules, and documents only.
    but I really enjoyed working here.ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Hello Amila,

      Yes, I am sure things have changed since the 1990s! 🙂 Were you working on the line between Sudan and Saudi Arabia? That must have been a very interesting job! I do love being out on the sea, though I think I prefer a sailboat! 🙂

      Thank you very much for saying hello!

      Brittany and BrunoReplyCancel

  • Elizabeth Sears - Brittany, a head scarf becomes you! Quite the adventure (ugh)but one I would not want to experience. You provide useful tips and advice, however, for those brave travelers who do. Glad you are feeling better…ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Bruno keeps saying that this counts as the cruise every married woman asks for from her husband. Ummmm, I think NOT!!! 🙂ReplyCancel

Posted in Africa,North AfricaTags:

Long before I met Bruno, he visited Sudan. He told me of following sandy tracks along the banks of the fertile Nile River; of encountering nomads in the Sahara Desert after days without spotting another human; of his inability to spend his money, such was the hospitality of the Sudanese people. This was far from the image of Sudan I had in my head.

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  • Elizabeth Sears - What a special way to usher in the new year! Very touching last paragraph.ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - We got lucky in Sudan – a special Christmas and a special New Year! 🙂ReplyCancel

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Sudanese culture is a unique marriage of African and Arab. With its Sufi dance celebrations, bustling downtown streets, and immense Arab markets, Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, was the perfect place for me to begin my new cultural education.

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  • Micheline Grosjean - Magnifique… la prochaine fois je viens avec toi dans ce marché et nous devaliserons ces stands de dates, de fruits secs et d’épices….
    Bisous a vous deux
    MimilabelléjeunsoeurReplyCancel

    • Brittany - T’as encore la chance de devaliser des souqs si tu veux, car on en passera plein ici aux Emirats, Oman, Iran, et Turquie! Viens, viens! 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Elizabeth Sears - What a refreshing and positive experience for you! So happy you were able to spend a few days over Christmas with Josu and Ana. The culinary delights you all manage to put together amaze me.ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - It was a Christmas to remember, which I’m sure makes you very happy dear mom! Nice to hear from you on the blog! 🙂ReplyCancel

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Sudan is well-known among travelers for its lengthy, confusing, and ultimately pointless bureaucratic procedures for arriving tourists. We weren’t looking forward to all the offices, papers, and stress that were waiting for us on arrival. Well, I gotta say: bureaucracy has changed – for the better – in the region.

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  • omer - Reading you while sitting on my comfy couch at the guesthouse in Blantyre, Malawi! How wonderful that you brought home to me regardless of those thounds of kilometers way distance to Khartoum, kisra.. Jabana and taamia, you had been blessed, ma’am 🙂
    Please post some photos, all the best and nice tripReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Glad to hear I could bring Sudan all the way to Malawi! Food is my passion! 🙂 Hope you enjoy the photos on my other two blog posts about Sudan, “A Cultural Education in Khartoum,” and “A New Sudan”. I send my best to Southern Malawi!ReplyCancel

  • Jesse Tabaranza - Just wondering how far are you now with your travels after that success you have in Sudan. It’s really good to know that you guys are doing well. Take care and God bless your ways.ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Hello from the Emirates! We’ve made it out of Sudan, onto the ferry boat to Jeddah, through Saudi Arabia, and will arrive in Abu Dhabi today! It’s been an eventful week of travel, and I will post ALL of it on the blog in the coming week or so!
      Thanks for following along, and hope you are well too!ReplyCancel

  • Leslie Brown - Stories and pictures never fail to amaze!!Will be waiting for more from the Sudan.
    I missed your anniversary so here it is…( Congratulations, Happy New Year, best wishes for safe journey and lots of love)
    GrampaReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Happy New Year to you as well! On my blog post today, called “A New Sudan,” you will get to see and read how we celebrated the new year. Hope yours was fabulous – sending much love!ReplyCancel

  • iAmSagh - Things sometimes goes smoothly for foreigners more than it does for locals most of the time. You should both ditch the classy restaurants and try our traditional dishes to have a real taste of Sudan.

    Places to visit include tuti island, the nile on omdurman, university of khartoum main campus and few other places kida. And as you are traveling to Saudi I can say you are going thro portsudan? Definitely the most beautiful city rn and it’s the perfect time of the year to be there 🙂ReplyCancel

    • Brittany - Thank you for reading, and especially for your tips! Never fear – we rarely visit tourist restaurants, and prefer to get our hands dirty with tasty local dishes! We’ve tried rob and kissra, ful, tamia, jabana and shai – yummy! 🙂
      We are in Port Sudan now, actually, and spent a week along the desert and coast north of Port Sudan – beautiful! Also saw a few nice sites in Khartoum, like the Sufi dancing, Omdurman souq, the National Museum, and the Confluence of the Nile. Visisted the pyramids of Meroe, Naqa and Mussawarat es Sufra – amazing! I will write about it soon on my blog so please look again in a few days!
      My husband had been to Sudan 15 years ago and it had been very complicated for bureaucratic paperwork at the time, so we were very pleased to see that things had improved for us. It made us feel very welcome, and the people of Sudan have continued to do that!
      Thanks again for your comment! 🙂ReplyCancel