Sudan to Egypt 7 The Passport Office

 The last thing that we were told was that we’d need to go to the passport office the following morning before we went to the docks.
By passport office, it turns out that they meant the police station. This was a lot easier to find, being located roughly in the middle of the main street of Wadi Halfa. Things weren’t particularly well signposted inside the compound, but we just wandered around until we found an officer who spoke some English.
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Sudan to Egypt 6

 Persistence paid off though, and I found out that it was supposed to be on the same street as a certain hotel. We took a walk and spotted a building hidden behind a gate with a ferry above the door. 

We’d been intended to try and get a couple of first-class tickets so that we could take one of the cabins, rather than the hard seats that second class get. These all turned out to be completely sold out though, and apparently had been for days already. So we picked up second-class tickets instead for the cost of 690 SDP each, or roughly 9 USD. This also comes with a voucher for a meal onboard the ferry.

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Getting Tickets for the Ferry from Sudan to Egypt 5

The biggest problem that we’d foreseen was trying to find out where to actually get tickets for the ferry. We’d asked at our hotel, and they weren’t sure of the exact office but suggested that it was far enough away that we’d need to take a tuk-tuk out near the port to look around there. 

We’d also heard that it should be possible to find them in Wadi Halfa though, which was our preferred choice. There was no obvious office marked on either Google or maps.me though.

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Ferry from Sudan to Egypt 4

 Coming back into the middle of town that evening though was a massive surprise. It was busy. And not just “actually people around”, which would have made it feel busy compared to Abri. It was genuinely crowded, with people filling the street.

And there were even open restaurants, which were packed. It took me a little while to recover from the surprise of it, much to someone’s amusement. We managed to find a spot to get a view of the end of the sunset, then grabbed some rotisserie chicken to fill up on.

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