Sunny Sudan

Yesterday I had my extra "fortnightly" day off. The morning was spent buying dishes for my new (original) flat, when the two former roomates vacated they took many of the dishes with them... I have now moved 4 times since I arrived! Buying dishes in the souq is certainly an adventure and not something I would try to do on my own! I had some friends over for tea and then we went to Souqanaga for lunch.

Naga means camel, so guess what this kindly butcher chopped up for us? Yup, camel. The first course we (my friends -no raw meat for me since the stomach infection) had raw camel livers with onions, salad and roasted camel meat. It is really tasty- similar to goat but leaner, I could eat it everyday! Second course was mutton, which isn't as tasty and really chewy. Here is the process- the market is huge, so you go around to different vendors and buy meat and vegetables then you bring it to a cooking station where an unhygenic lady who just finished picking her nose will cook ( or not cook in the case of livers) and prepare salad and everything for you then you eat it with bread and wipe your greasy mouth with your hand/arm ( thats just me). As delicious and fun as this is as per usual there are not a lot of women there besides the ones who are working.

Afterwards we went to the beach near the presidential villas, which are oversized condos, built for the sole purpose of housing presidents and thier overbloated entourage during the African and Arab summits- a huge waste of money. It makes me ill looking at it...

Tomorrow is the Prophet's birthday so it is a national holiday - yipee!

# posted by mj @ Sunday, April 09, 2006