There are some few things around Atbara that could keep you busy for a day or two. The locomotive graveyard is told to be a strange change from the ordinary sights in the northern Sudan. And the camel and crafts market just out of town has a good reputation by those having had time to hang around until Saturday, the day it's held. Click Here to Visit our Sponsor Difficult on both. Some few places to eat, but not of the restaurant standard.
Hotels are either very bad and cheap, or expensive and malancholic.
Atbara has very good communications. Trains are very important here, as the city connects the line running north as well as those heading out to the coast. But buses, taxis, boksis, and even air flights are available. All rights reserved.