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.
(to be continued)