Egypt to Sudan unofficially?
Is it possible to unofficially cross from Egypt to Sudan through the desert? I have read of people making the trip many years ago. There was one guy in the late 90s that did it illegally in a beach buggy. Another example is from cookies site where they travelled from Abu Simbel to Dongola
Crossing The Egyptian-Sudanese Border Not Quite Legally. | Travel Photography Blog by Nisa Maier and Ulli Maier.
Here is an extract
"we decided to pretend to leave Abu Simbel just before the checkpoint closed in the evening. We told the officers that we’d sleep along the road and drive up to Aswan again the next day. This would give us some time to disappear into the desert. After being out of sight of the checkpoint, and with no other traffic on the road, we turned off our lights and drove off into the vast desert landscape. Only the moon guided us"
The problem is I have not seen anyone attempting this in recent years. Anyone know why this is? Does the Egyptian military now have a huge presence in the desert making such a crossing practically impossible?
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