Some more snaps of South Sudan from different area

During my visits to Upper Nile state, I took this river Nile snap from the plane. After the rainy season, river Nile shrinks and looks like a small river. On the other hand during rainy season, it takes much of the floodplain (green in the photo) and expands on both banks.

Just imagine, travel for five and half hours (non stop) on a bumpy road, seating on the back side in an ambulance type land cruiser. What you can do? You cannot sleep, you cannot work, you cannot make a phone call (no network), roads are straight, and on both sides you see trees with red and white skin. I started thinking about work, but then how long you can do that?

This is another common sight now days. Here the area is either forest (trees and grass) or grassland. After the rainy season is over, people burn grass. Some say - it is good for the land fertility. Some say, they would like to kill snakes, so that their cattle are unaffected. For me, as a result, we get the flying ash even in Juba.

This food on the way, reminded me of Darfur. Aish (round bread), ful (beans), basal (onion), shatta (red chili powder), and kebab (meat in a gravy).

In most of the smaller towns, you can get cuisine from Ethiopia and Uganda. Most of the restaurants are run by women from these countries. This Ethiopian coffee takes around half hour to prepare. They roast the coffee beans, and then pound them to make powder and then coffee is prepared.