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Nature & LandscapesThe Sudd
One of the largest wetlands on earth, where the Nile spreads out and slows almost to a stop.
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SOUTH SUDAN · Tourism
Cattle Camps at Dawn
A million white-eared kob moving across Boma and Badingilo, the Sudd wetland the size of Belgium, and the cattle camps of the Mundari — the youngest country in the world, and the least travelled.
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27Tourism experiences
The Sudd, and the second-largest migration on earthKnown for
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Featured destinations
Where the country actually takes you.
Nature & Landscapes
The Imatong
Mount Kinyeti at 3,187 metres on the Ugandan border, the highest point in the country.
Photo Suket Dedhia / Pexels
WaterfallsFula Falls
The Nile dropping through rock at Fula, on its way north out of Uganda.
Photo sadness 1225 / Pexels
Lakes & RiversThe White Nile
It runs the length of the country and it is the reason for everything here.
Beaches & CoastNo Coast, Plenty of Water
Landlocked, but the river islands and sandbars near Terekeka do the job.
The Southern Forests
Guinea-Congolian rainforest at the Congo border, with forest elephant and chimpanzee in it.
Photo Raghu's Manda / Pexels
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Wildlife & safari
What lives here, and how you see it without disturbing it.
Wildlife
The Great Kob Migration
White-eared kob, tiang and Mongalla gazelle — counted at over a million animals.
Photo Edgar Okioga / Pexels
Boma and Badingilo
Two parks either side of the migration route, with almost no infrastructure and no crowds.
Photo Theo Topolevsky / Pexels
Eco TourismThe Sudd Holds the Nile Back
Half the water entering the Sudd evaporates in it. The wetland is a climate system.
Photo Beyza Eren / Pexels
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Culture & heritage
The part of a country you cannot photograph from a vehicle.
Culture
Sixty-Four Peoples
Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, Azande, Mundari and fifty-eight more, in a country of twelve million.
The Mundari
Cattle are wealth, name and argument. A camp of them at dusk is unlike anything else.
Photo alameen .ng / Pexels
Food & CuisineKisra, Asida and Fish
Sorghum asida, kisra flatbread, and Nile perch grilled on the bank.
Wrestling
Dinka and Mundari wrestling matches draw whole districts, with drumming and singing round the ring.
Photo Anchau / Pexels
Traditional Arts & CraftsBeadwork and Corsets
Dinka beaded corsets in colours that state a man's age set, and Azande basketry.
Photo Anchau / Pexels
Lado and the Old Posts
The Lado Enclave, Gondokoro and the river stations of the nineteenth-century Nile expeditions.
Photo Maël BALLAND / Pexels
Nothing on the List Yet
No World Heritage sites, and a heritage that is living rather than ruined.
Photo Mads Terkelsen / Pexels
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Cities & everyday life
Where people actually live between the landmarks.
Juba
A river port that became a capital in 2011 and has been building ever since.
Tukuls
Round mud walls, conical thatch, and a shape that has not needed improving.
Photo Er. Mk Kiran. / Pexels
Local LifeMarket Day at Terekeka
Cattle, sorghum, fish and tea, and the whole district in one place.
Photo Becky Awo / Pexels
Hard Country for It
This is not a family destination yet, and pretending otherwise would not help anyone.
Photo Tosin Olowoleni / Pexels
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Adventure & outdoors
For travellers who would rather walk it than watch it.
Adventure
Getting to Boma
Light aircraft and then hours of track. It is expedition travel and it is honest about that.
Walking the Imatong
Cool forest, waterfalls and Kinyeti, from Gilo. Guides are essential and available.
Photo Jemima Brito / Pexels
Luxury TravelTwo Camps
There is a mobile camp on the migration and very little else. That is the honest position.
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Travel inspiration
The frames people come home with.
Photography / Scenic ViewsSmoke and Horns
A Mundari camp at first light, when the fires are lit and the light comes through them.
Photo Harun Makandi / Pexels
Hidden GemsNimule
A small park on the Ugandan border with elephant, and the Nile going through it.
Photo Diego F. Parra / Pexels
Why Visit This Country
Why South Sudan
A migration to rival the Serengeti's, seen by a few dozen people a year.
Why South Sudan
A migration to rival the Serengeti's, seen by a few dozen people a year.
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