Camel train
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A camel train, caravan, or camel string is a series of camels carrying passengers and goods on a regular or semi-regular service between points. Despite rarely travelling faster than human walking spe
A contemporary camel caravan for salt transportation in Lake Karum in Afar Region, Ethiopia
"Caravan Approaching a City in the Vast Desert of Sahara", from: Stanley and the White Heroes in Africa, by H. B. Scammel, 1890
Camel train transporting a house, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, ca. 1928
Camels with a howdah, by Émile and Adolphe Rouargue, 1855
Sahara
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The Sahara is a desert spanning North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts
Camel train
…Shuwa and Hassaniyya, as well as by culturally-affiliated groups like the Toubou, Hausa and Songhay. These camel trains conduct trade in and around the Sahara Desert and Sahel. Trains travel as far south as central Nigeria and northern Cameroon in the west, and northern Kenya in the east of the continent. In antiquity…
The Sahara taken by Apollo 17 astronauts, 1972
An oasis in the Ahaggar Mountains
Sand dunes in the Algerian Sahara
Camel train at sunset in the Sahara