Well what a day. Another beautiful sunny morning greeted the riders as we made our way to the starting point of today's stage, a 20km Time Trial. I just ride straight past the start with Rodney, Daniel and Andre all the way to the lunch stop at the 65km mark.
The ride was fantastic all the way except for a brief section of headwind towards the end of the day. Once we got to the lunch break we all had to get into convoy mode for the 40km police escort through the streets of Khartoum to our camping site.
It's an amazing feeling with thousands of people lining the streets, cheering and clapping as the bunch of 70 lycra clad cyclists explode into Khartoum. At each intersection the police would stop traffic as the convoy of bikes and support vehicles drove through town. Khartoum is an amazing place, and I love the friendliness of all the people.
As soon as we made it to camp we quickly set up tent and did the washing our my stinking riding gear, had a shower which was fabulous. I don't know why I bothered showing as I didn't really stink that bad after 4 days without a shower.
We got a taxi into the Central Hotel in Khartoum to stay out of our tents for the night and also to be closer to the main rat race of the town. I'm staying with Luke who is a cool guy from Australia, and Andre, Hendry and Kim.
The hotel is pretty nice with the basics and costs 90 Sudanese pounds for the double. Dinner was 1/2 a chook with rice and everything else they could fit on our plates. Andre ordered 1 kilogram of this sugar coated/infested crumbled which we devoured like starving humans. The locals must be amazed at the amount of food the 5 of ate in such a short time.
Now it's time to keep walking the town.
I will do a more thorough update tomorrow as we're meeting up with other cyclists in town for dinner. Only ate 1 hour ago but still starving.
This section will complete Pharaohs Delight, Cairo to Khartoum proudly sponsored by close friend, Frank Soto of the SOTO Group. Photo's tomorrow.
congratulations. Its a long way already and you are fit enough to enter the Dinnerville.
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