Visiting Bir Tawil or places like it

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Can you travel to Bir Tawil?

Can you travel to Bir Tawil? The short answer is that yes you can travel to Bir Tawil, but you cannot as many people claim travel here independently and claim it as your own. To travel to Bir Tawil involves lots of planning, permissions and indeed logistics. All of which Young Pioneer Tours can deal with.

Why does nobody claim Bir Tawil?

Bir Tawil's unoccupied status stems from a series of border disputes between Egypt and Sudan that began in the turn of the 20th century. Both countries have refused to take control over Bir Tawil, because doing so would relinquish their control over the larger and more lucrative Hala'ib Triangle, The Guardian reported.

Is there water under Bir Tawil?

Neither nation is interested in Bir Tawil simply because there is nothing there. Land within the borders of Bir Tawil is mostly sand or dry mountains. A well had once been built inside Bir Tawil (the name means \u201cwater well\u201d in Arabic), but no one is sure where it went or what happened to it.

Is there gold in Bir Tawil?

We carried on the journey north, camping once more, and stopping in a place we called \u201cMad Max Town\u201d, the last main settlement before Bir Tawil. This is gold mining country, and at times comes across a little bit Star Wars!

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Bir Tawil: The Land No Country Wants

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