Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt — over 200 of them — and you will likely have them entirely to yourself. The Kingdom of Kush, which ruled from the city of Meroë for over a thousand years, built steep-sided pyramids, elaborate temples, and a civilization that at its peak conquered Egypt itself. Today these Nubian pyramids stand in the desert north of Khartoum, glowing gold at sunrise with no ticket booths, no tour buses, and no barriers between you and 2,500 years of history. Sudan is the Nile before it reaches Egypt — wider, wilder, and flanked by Nubian villages where life revolves around date palms, donkeys, and hospitality so total that strangers are welcomed like long-lost family. This is Africa’s most underrated country: vast, ancient, and almost completely unknown to the outside world.

RJ Travel operates group tours and private tours in Sudan, from Khartoum and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles to the pyramids and royal baths of Meroë, the Temple of Soleb, the Nubian villages of the Nile’s Third Cataract, the Red Sea port of Suakin, and the sacred mountain of Jebel Barkal. Our itineraries include desert camping, Nubian homestays, and archaeological exploration of sites that most travellers have never heard of.

Whether you’re drawn by watching the sun rise over Meroë’s pyramids in total solitude, sailing a felucca on the Nile through landscapes unchanged since the Pharaohs, or sharing tea with a Nubian family in a mud-brick village painted in brilliant blues and yellows, our Sudan tours take you to the Africa that Egypt was born from.