Monday, May 19, 2014

Sudan


We just learned about the country of Tanzania.

Sudan is a country on the Northeast part of Africa, just South of Egypt.

sudan
(from: wikipedia - sudan)

To eat in Sudan you might have some type of meat stew with lots of spices.
sudan cuisine
(from: wikipedia - sudanese cuisine)

Manute Bol was a basketball player from Sudan who was 7 feet 7 inches tall, one of the tallest basketball players ever.
manute bol
(from: wikipedia - manute bol)

In the city of Kerma, there are some ancient towers called deffufa that were built by people thousands of years ago.
deffufa
(from: wikipedia - kerma)

A group of people known as the Dervish have a dance that they do where they spin around a lot. Because of this they are sometimes called a whirling dervish.
whirling dervish
(from: wikipedia - dervish)


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