During the summer 1969, I went by boat from Marseilles to Alexandria in Egypt. From there I traveled mostly along the Nile River down to Juba (now the capital of South Sudan), by train and by boat. At that time southern Sudan was already in turmoil and I had to fly from Juba to Entebbe in Uganda.

From Aswan in southern Egypt I took a boat on Lake Nasser (the lake created by the Aswan dam) to reach Wadi Halfa in northern Sudan. From there an old train brought me to Khartoum across the desert of Nubia and then another train further south to Kosti. In Kosti I boarded a boat on the Nile for Juba, a one-week trip across a huge waterlogged swamp.

In 1969, the southern portion of this trip (mainly between Malakal to Juba) was part of Sudan. Since 2011, it is part of the newly independent country of South Sudan.