Khartoum - Sudan

Am in Sudan! Here on official trip for MTC. But that's not what I want to write about.

Came in here yesterday. Sudan seems a poor country but a very beautiful one in what I saw since yesterday. My hotel has a nice view of both the "White Nile" and the "Blue Nile" which confluence somewhere in/near Khartoum (that's where I am) and then flows on as the Nile. The roads are narrow and dusty and overall it couldn't be any different from a small town in India. The temperature is rising (it was 43 Celsius when we reached here yesterday and it is just the start of summer ). But there is a pleasant river side breeze ... overall the place seems beautiful ...

Yes, I know there are lot of problems and violence in and around Sudan. Darfur is only too well known. But just wanted to put in this post that there are some good things out here too ... Wish the best to the people of Sudan for a peaceful and developing future ahead ...