I recall there was a report (earlier in this thread?) on a group doing it that way, but it sounded like an expensive exception. And iirc they did cross the Nile SW of Wadi Halfa to the east side, if not right back up to WH itself to check in. I recall tracking the obscure west side port on Google maps.

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.

As I understand it there are two from Abu Simbel area. But the much announced new route into Sudan is: Aswan to Abu Simbel, short ferry to Qustul new town, then to the Egyptian border post on 22°N, and half an hour down to Wadi H. I believe Endurodude did this early last year going north on his Fiat record run.

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