From Khartoum, it is a bumpy drive into Ethiopia, where you can trace the Blue Nile to Lake Tana.
In recent months, retaliatory attacks between rival tribes have raged in Tana River District, leaving more than 100 people dead.
It is in Gondar that castles built in the 7th century overlook Lake Tana , the source of the Blue Nile .
Ms. APHRIM TANA: (Through translator) Now, we feel like Christians again.
The Blue Nile originates in the country's Lake Tana and flows hundreds of miles north into Sudan and then Egypt before eventually flowing into the Mediterranean.
But on Sunday the French side were able to field world-renowned stars of the calibre of Jonny Wilkinson, Juan Fernandez Lobbe, Joe van Niekerk and Tana Umaga.
We spent the night in Wad Madani, on the Blue Nile, which flows from Ethiopia's Lake Tana to join the White Nile in the capital of Khartoum.
The tensions and rivalry that resulted in the violence have been ongoing for decades in the Tana River area, said Joseph Kitur, deputy provincial police officer in Kenya's Coast Province.
But he lasted just one minute of Test rugby in New Zealand in 2005 after a shoulder injury following a spear-tackle from All Black pair Keven Mealamu and Tana Umaga.
Wilkinson is just one the big names in Top 14 giants Toulon's squad that also includes former All Black captain Tana Umaga and Argentines Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe and Felipe Contepomi.
With ex-All Blacks captain Tana Umaga on the field and skipper Van Niekerk leading from the front, they hit back as replacement Sourice scored in the right corner with two minutes to go.
The team was captained by Brian O'Driscoll, but his tour ended after just two minutes of the first Test when he was controversially 'spear' tackled by Tana Umaga and Keven Mealamu and dislocated his shoulder.
The death toll from communal fighting over land and water in the past three weeks between the pastoral Orma and the agrarian Pokomo tribes along the Tana river in Kenya rose to at least 112.
Steyn struck his first penalty inside five minutes when Mils Muliaina - who became the fourth most capped All Black in history alongside Tana Umaga - was penalised for not releasing after collecting a high kick outside his 22m line.
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