Chapter 603: Pomp
Khartoum International Airport is similar to the airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, looking at the short terminal building in the distance, and the ordinary civilian aircraft on the tarmac has only one passenger plane, an Airbus of Air Arabia in the United Arab Emirates. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The other aircraft are Zhang Nan's 767, plus two C141 transport planes that have been basically unloaded.
Sultan, who will come here who is fine?
Thomas and a man who claimed to be a United Nations official, as well as several local Sudanese officials, stepped forward to introduce and greet both sides.
Without planning to stay in Khartoum for too long, Zhang Nan and Adjani, who wore big sunglasses, quickly boarded their oversized seven-seater bulletproof SUV, and the convoy immediately left the airport.
Five bulletproof SUVs, two of which were wreckers with Gatling guns, five bulletproof riot trucks converted from large pickup trucks were at both ends of the convoy, and five trucks rented from Sudan were loaded with all supplies and supplies at the end.
"Alan, are we staying in a tent at night?"
In the car, Adjani asked weakly: she saw that there seemed to be tents and other things in the truck, and if it was an ordinary tent, then she would rather live in the car.
It's not just a top-of-the-line configuration, it's a wide seat that can be changed in a certain range, and you can almost lie down and sleep.
Zhang Nan laughed when he heard this, and said, "Are you afraid of sleeping on a marching bed?"
"Don't be afraid, it's just that the sun is big outside. ”
It's February now, and the temperature outside is about 30 degrees at noon, which is still the temperature in a shady place.
If it's under the sun, it's at least 367 degrees! It's one of the hottest countries in the world, and there's no cool time of the year.
Adjani is a little afraid of heat, but she is not afraid of the heat during the day, and she will run to sunbathe this summer. I am afraid of the heat at night, you must know that Paris today does not install refrigeration and air conditioning, and the temperature is not high in summer.
If it's still hot at night, she won't be able to carry it.
And Zhang Nan said before that he wanted to go to a place where birds don't, except that sand is stone, and there is a town called Kebusier on the bank of the Nile River six or seven kilometers away.
But don't think about what kind of star hotel, the nearest things that can be called "hotels" are still sixty or seventy kilometers away, or Sudanese standards, and it is estimated that they can scare Ajani away.
Seeing her look a little worried, Zhang Nan smiled and patted Adjani's hand, "Don't worry, the field camp equipment is satisfactory to you." ”
Khartoum Airport is in the south of the city, and this one heads north through the city.
Khartoum is not much to see, and the capital of one of the least developed countries in the world is just a dozen kilometers out of the city, with green farmland on both sides of the road, and a few famous places - very distinctive, all with mud-walled courtyards.
It's kind of a sight to behold.
It has a relatively well-developed irrigation system, and the Nile is two or three kilometers away on the left flank.
The convoy continued north, and soon a great wonder appeared in Sudan and Egypt along the Nile: the road basically followed the flow of the Nile all the way to the north, the left side was full of greenery, and the head turned to the right - a yellow desert and next door!
If there were no Nile, it would be nothing, just a no-go zone for humans.
With the Nile, it has become one of the cradles of human civilization.
Magical Nile.
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This is half a desert road, even if it is the most important road in Sudan, there are very few vehicles, and the convoy can drive at a speed of more than sixty yards.
After driving for hundreds of kilometers, both sides of the highway were already surrounded by Gobi and sand dunes, and the vision was already tired, and suddenly a big river on the left suddenly opened up, Adjani couldn't help but say: "Nile!"
The convoy crossed the Blue Nile as it crossed the city from Khartoum, but did not see the Nile after the White Nile and the "Two Niles" converged.
The Sudanese exploited the benefits of the Nile to the extreme, and ran hundreds of kilometers along the Nile without seeing what the Nile looked like: all the land that could be planted became arable land, and the roads had to make way for arable land, so they had to move into the desert Gobi.
Ahead is a bend in the Nile, flanked by a rocky hill, surrounded by sand dunes on the periphery, so there is no farmland in this area, and you can see the rushing Nile.
The river is relatively narrow, and the water flow is fast, which is quite spectacular to look at.
Hearing Adjani's words, Zhang Nan asked with a smile, "Want to go and see?"
The beauty's blue eyes blinked, and she seemed very interested, but she was embarrassed to say, probably because she was afraid of delaying the trip.
But what kind of person is Zhang Nan, he can stop if he wants.
Pressing a button, he opened the partition between the driver's seat and said to Alyosha: "Tell everyone to stop, I want to see the Nile." ”
"Understood, boss. ”
As he spoke, he pressed the intercom button pinned to his ear to notify the convoy to stop and rest.
Seeing Adjani's eager appearance, Zhang Nan said with a smile: "Half of the road, get out of the car and breathe." ”
The whole journey takes almost 4 hours, and Adjani didn't drink a sip of water in the two hours before she got off the plane, plus the air outside is dry and the air conditioning in the car, the lips of "French Rose" are a little dry.
Zhang Nan knew why she was like this, she used to take a long-distance bus on a business trip, and she was afraid of internal urgency.
put her mouth to Adjani's ear and whispered, but the beauty was so shy that she gave Zhang Nan a hygienic look.
The convoy pulled to the right, leaving only the driver, and everyone else got off.
The vehicles passing through this place in the second half of the road were taken aback by this special group of vehicles and personnel - except for the few little devil trucks, the other models of vehicles must have appeared in Sudanese soil for the first time.
And even more special are the people!
After the "combined forces" quickly jumped out of the back door of the five explosion-proof vehicles, they immediately divided into 10 combat teams and dispersed, controlling all the commanding heights around them.
Two SUVs with Gatling guns stopped at opposite ends of the road, and the gunners opened the roof of the car and flipped the killer inside.
Even Alyosha had a Chinese-style three-magazine combat equipment hanging on the outside of his combat uniform, and he was standing behind Zhang Nan with a folding AKM in his hand.
Looking at this posture, Adjani was really a little speechless.
In the United States, I don't know if the president is so blatant, and the French president will never dare to do this.
And here, the Sudanese officials who were with Thomas, the general manager of the "United Forces" who arrived early, turned a blind eye to it, and felt that it was a matter of course.
It's a big deal that the Sudanese have envious looks in their eyes, envy for these brand-new equipment and well-trained armed men.
In this way, under the protection of a group of bodyguards armed to the teeth, Zhang Nan and Adjani walked more than 200 meters, climbed the rock and looked at the Nile.
At around 4 p.m., the convoy arrived at its destination, a pyramid complex about 6 kilometers from the Nile.
Adjani is a superstar, but she doesn't know much about the history of the Sultan, and when she sees the pyramid in the film, she is shocked!
Be amazed by history and the wisdom and perseverance of the ancients.
"Alan, these are 3,000 years old?"
"No, it's only about 2,000 years, not as old as the pyramids in Egypt.
The people who built these pyramids were not ancient Egyptians either, they were supposed to be Nubians.
It should belong to the category of Upper Egypt in the earliest period of Egypt, where primitive tribes operated as early as 4000 BC, and by 2800 BC to 1000 BC it was part of Ancient Egypt, and around 750 BC the Nubians established the kingdom of Kush in Sudan.
These towers of gold are the product of the Meroe dynasty, which ruled ancient Egypt at its most powerful time, as if it were the 25th Dynasty......"
The Pyramids of Sudan, also known as the "Little Pyramids", have a total of 220 large and small pyramids, and the entire pyramid group is more than the number of pyramids in Egypt!
The pyramids of the Sultan are the mausoleums of the Meroe Dynasty, which will want to apply for UNESCO World Heritage Status, which is a matter of course in terms of actual historical value, but Zhang Nan knows that this matter is empty for the time being: it seems that it will be more than ten years before the Sudanese achieve this goal.