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3 Aug 2013
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Originally Posted by SimonLore
I heard the road would only be ready in October, but it is allready fixed for now?
Great, but I think it is even more easy to take the boat than to follow the road! :-)
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Although I'm sort of looking forward to the Wadi Halfa - Aswan experience next year (going up), I'll be more than happy taking the road. I'm travelling solo and hate the idea of leaving my dog tied to the car for 17 hours
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5 Aug 2013
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Hi guys,
I'm also looking forward to the experience of taking the ferry, but the advantage of taking the (new built) road is that you can see Abu simpel without any problem... (it seems to...)
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17 Aug 2013
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Its still not officially open and probably not finished, I would recomend the barge still as the cheapest/easiest way to cross. If you do take the road try and get fixers to organise it in advance (20 days)as we all had to stump up $100 US extra to the sudanese for our 4 days short notice to Khartoum. this could of course have been some sort of rip off
Of course thats assuming it turns up, we only went as we had been to long waiting for the mythical barge.
Good luck if there is anyone left transiting egypt now
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22 Sep 2013
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7 Dec 2013
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Does anyone have any updates about the road?
Specifically I'm interested in going overland on bicycle. Is the ferry still the only option?
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8 Dec 2013
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Hi Ramblurr,
I think the only reason we got through on the road was someone likely lining their own pockets during the the revolution. That plus the barges werent running. Haven't heard of anyone else taking it.
I imagine it would be doubly difficult on the bike as we had Egyptian customs with us passing through the Egyptian checkpoints and even then it took time. The fixers in my posts and the weblink above will be able to tell you more but the ferry definitely seems to be your best, cheapest and simplest option.
Good luck and be thankful you don't have a car to get through Egyptian customs!
Tadhg
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29 Dec 2013
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Any news ?
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Does anybody has any recent info how likely is that this road will be available in predictible future?
zbyszek
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