Sudan to Egypt 11

 If we’d been feeling less lazy and/or cheaper, we could have walked into the middle of town and taken a shared van out there for about 20 SDP each instead.

Arriving at the port, we had a few more checks and formalities to go through, all of which were quite straightforward. When we entered the building, we had to hand over our tickets to be checked so that we could be registered as being on the ferry.

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Sudan to Egypt 10 Departing Sudan

 
Not sure why they didn’t want payment from us when we could see everyone else paying, but I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.

We’d been told that we should be at the port a couple of hours before departure, so at 14.30 we were getting ready to head out. As we were feeling particularly lazy and we still had some Sudanese Pounds to use up, we had a taxi – or rather, a bokasi that was acting as a taxi – just pick us up from our hotel to drive us there.

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Sudan to Egypt 9 The Guy Still Declined

 What actually happened, though, was that every window we tried to go to to make this payment just pointed us to a different one. After going back and forth a couple of times, we grabbed the English speaking police officer again and asked him to show us which one we needed.

He took us up to that window, and the guy there still declined. We were seated back in the courtyard, and after what looked like a quick discussion between some other officers, we were just given a stamp for departure anyway.

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Sudan to Egypt 8 The Procedure

 
As far as we could tell, the procedure was supposed to be that we would go into one office (first door on the left immediately after entering the grounds), and at one of the desks in here we would have to pay a departure tax.

We would then have been given a receipt to take to a different officer (at a table in the courtyard), who would give us a departure card to fill out. Once we had both of these, he’d check the receipt to be sure that we’d paid, and stamp our departure card for us to hand over at immigration when we boarded the ferry.

(to be continued)