Cash

You have heard of the cashless society?  Sudan is the opposite.  Because some of the most severe economic sanctions in the world, you cannot use credit cards here.  So everything is cash.

Every time you go to a restaurant or  grocery store, you need to be sure you have enough money on you.  For us, that's a little unnerving.  Back home, we used credit cards all the time, and hardly carried cash.  I could literally go weeks or months with out visiting an ATM.

And to make it worse, we can't use ATMs because of the sanctions.  So when we need cash, we need to go to the cashier at the embassy and write a check.  Which takes planning.

I miss credit cards.