They began inviting travellers for meals following the construction of this road in the 1960s.
To fasting travellers, the meal is a much welcomed break from their exhausting long trips on Sudan s often rutted roads.
But to residents living in villages along the road, it is part of upholding Sudan s long-held traditions of hospitality to strangers and, amid a tough economic crisis, proof that the important things in life must remain the same.
The call for the evening prayer announces the end of another fasting day.
A feast is provided. Parched travellers, struggling after a day in the sun without liquid, are firstly handed a cool and refreshing squeezed juice.
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