Tuti Island


Tuti Island is an island in Sudan where the White Nile and Blue Nile merge to form the main Nile. It is surrounded by the "Three Towns": Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North. Despite this, Tuti is home to only one small village, with grassland being the main makeup of the island. In the past the only approach to Tuti Island was via several ferries that cross the river every so often, but the Tuti Bridge, a modern suspension bridge, was completed in 2008 and can be used instead.
Tuti Island is mainly agricultural and where Khartoum gets most of its supply of fruits and vegetables and therefore, you can find many farms situated all around the island, many of them still using manual methods of farming. You will find acres of green fields and lime groves.

Lifestyle

Its eight square kilometres of fertile land are covered in citrus orchards, vegetable farms, gorse hedgerows and narrow muddy lanes where donkeys and rickshaws are the main source of transport.
The building of the Tuti Bridge has sparked development projects on Tuti Island, primarily by , which plans to turn the Island into a state of the art tourist resort. These ideas have caused , with the locals wishing to protect their village from becoming a tourist destination.