strange maps looks at the bir tawil triangle. i "discovered" the region when i was in egypt, looked at a map, and tried to figure out what the deal was with that triangle in the southeast corner of egypt.
it was actually the hala’ib triangle that caught my eye. the map in my guidebook made it look like it was both egyptian and sudanese, which is what made it so curious. when i was in aswan, i briefly considered trying to go to hala'ib town. but my inquiries revealed that it would be difficult, expensive and would suck up the time i wanted to spend along the nile. to pay all that for little more than the bragging rights for having visited a disputed territory that no one has heard of didn't seem worth it.
anyway, i knew even less about the bir tawil triangle, which only seems to be called a "triangle" because it's linked to the hala'ib territory. the hala'ib region really is a triangle, bir tawil is more like a trapezoid. there's at least a town in hala'ib. bir tawil really does seem to be a small patch of nothing. but the idea of visiting the least wanted space on earthis kind of appealing.
