Sudan has a lot of natural and historical attractions to offer and is the biggest country in the continent, but it is one of the least visited in Africa.

Sudan has a coastline of 850 km along the Red Sea, and borders with 9 other African countries. With an area of over 2.5 million sq. km. (960,000 Sq. mi.) it is the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest in the world. Sudan is dominated by the Nile and its tributaries; The Blue and the White Nile meet in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, to form the River Nile, which flows northwards through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. The population of Sudan is almost 40 million people.

In the old days, Sudan was known to the Egyptians as Kush and had strong cultural and religious ties to Egypt. In about 750 BC a Kushite king conquered Upper Egypt, became ruler of Thebes and thereby divided Egypt into two. His successor reunited Egypt and founded a line of kings who ruled Kush and Thebes for about a hundred years. The ties to ancient Egypt can still be seen today in the northern deserts of Sudan, where pyramids and other ancient sites are littering the place.

Unfortunately Sudan is today better known for the armed conflicts within its borders that continues to go on, and the difficulties getting sufficient humanitarian aid to affected populations in areas like for instance Dafur.

Because of this situation travel anywhere in Sudan, including Khartoum and the adjacent town of Omdurman, is potentially dangerous. Sporadic violence instigated by militias has occurred in South Sudan, where militia forces have attacked locations. The Sudanese Government requires that anyone seeking to travel outside a 25 kilometer radius of Khartoum obtain a special permit. 

Sudan therefore has no real tourist industry, and although Sudan has a lot of natural and historical attractions to offer and is the biggest country in the continent, it is one of the least visited in Africa.

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South Africa	Egypt	Northern Africa	Eastern Africa	Western Africa	Southern Africa
Package Holidays	Package Holidays	Morocco	Kenya	Gambia	Botswana
South Africa Hotels	Hotels and Resorts	Algeria	Tanzania	Guinea	Namibia
South Africa Safaris	Nile Cruises	Tunisia	Uganda	Sierra Leone	Mozambique
South Africa Flights	Holiday Resorts	Libya	Somalia	Ivory Coast	Madagascar
Johannesburg	Flights to Egypt	Sudan	Rwanda	Ghana	Mauritius
Cape Town	Cairo	Eritrea	Burundi	Nigeria	Seychelles
Durban	Alexandria	Ethiopia	Links	Cameroon	Zimbabwe
Kruger National Park	Luxor	Djibouti		Gabon	Angola
Garden Route	Valley of the Kings	Western Sahara		Congo	Zambia
Drakensberg Range	Nile Delta	Mauritania			Malawi