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The Aswan - Abu Simbel road had been there since at least the late eighties, 25 years ago you could simply hire a taxi (or take your own car) to go to AS and back with no hassles.
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Thanks for these infos,
Hoping we could get a report from some travellers who tried this option... I don't understand why, since this new road + short ferry is in service, we don't have any experience about it... RR. |
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hope it will be real soon |
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it was an option to avoid the ferry if you travel in big group if it is 30 ppl then each will pay 100 $ last year i met a an overland truck a female was driving it and they manage to use the road but they had to arrange it 3 weeks in advance |
Thank you for all info.
Waiting in anticipation for some travel reports to see what the outcome is in near future with this new information that came to light regards this road. Particularly towards January 2015 as that is when we will be traveling North towards Egypt. Reg |
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Are there 2 roads (except the Aswan/Halfa one) or is it the same? Rr. |
The mix of high carnet deposit, corrupted Egyptian officers, crippling bureaucracy and outdated complex immigration procedures really puts one off visiting Egypt overland!.
For me it was very convenient and cheap to skip Egypt all together and fly my bike from Khartoum. I think If you want to visit Egypt....fly there. |
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RR. |
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Thank god I was on a Bike, because going through Egypt is just a rip off. Flying a 4x4 would have been financially impossible for me. The other option is also a bit crazy; that's going through Saudi Arabia where they won't allow a vehicle with right hand steering wheel. |
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FF. |
Ahram Online - News, Business, Culture, Sports & Multimedia from Egypt
This looks promissing :cool4: Egypt-Sudan border crossing to open in next few days: Ministry Opening is delayed after initial announcement of 12 August; minister forecasts 'drastic change' in coming period between two countries Ahram Online, Wednesday 13 Aug 2014 Egypt and Sudan will open a shared border crossing within the next few days, according to a press release from Egypt's trade and industry ministry. Previously, an official declaration made at the beginning of the month set 12 August as the day for the border's opening. The ministry did not give any explanation for the delay. "The coming period will witness a drastic change in Egypt-Sudan commercial and economic relations, especially after the opening of the border," Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour, Egypt's trade and industry minister, said on the sidelines of meetings of the Sudanese-Egyptian joint commercial and industrial committee that started in Khartoum on Tuesday. capetown2arnhem.com |
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About the 27th press statement to this extent over the past 3 years... |
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RR. |
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I wonder if while the old west side tourist road was being resurfaced to Abu Simbel, they carried on tarmacing to the border of Sudan, even though there was not much on the other side then (I recall following intermittent tracks/roads). This is what caused confusion here; it looked like the new road would sensibly avoid a ferry over Lake Nasser and carry on all the way west of the Nile to Dongola bridge. Quote:
You would think Abu Simbel to Dongola would have been the simplest, overland, ferry-free way of doing it, and it seems such a road can now be traced (mostly) on Google. But perhaps the mayor of Wadi Halfa and the guy who was given the Egyptian Qustul ferry concession, or the estate agents in Qustul didn't want it that way. There may be strategic reasons in complicating the border, or perhaps the fact that the Chinese had recently completed a road from the south up to WH, so it was better/simpler to keep it on that side. The one on the west side in Sudan may be in rough shape and too expensive to rebuild or is allocated to smugglers. Ch |
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and again in some news that the main road goes direct to Dongola and ferry free is going to open some timelater maybe a year ,or 2 or 10 all we have to do is to keep smiling be happy ,be positive hahahahaha :D |
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