Ahmed and the camels he herds from Nahoud in Sudan to Egypt are vestiges of another age, a time greatly romanticized in both East and West when robed and rugged men like King Abdul Azziz Ibn Saud of ...

ERG CHEBBI, Morocco - The bright black silhouettes of our three-camel caravan shone against a tall sand dune like a background drawing of the Three Kings in a Nativity scene. While Georgie, as I had ...

Inside the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia's Danakil desert, camel caravans are used to carry salt. For centuries, the essential mineral has been mined by the Afar people, known for their ability to ...

JAISALMER, India — “Mind the cows,” Little Raj warned as he led me past souvenir stalls through a maze of stone passageways to the home where his great-grandfather once lived. Just then, a ...

2001-03-04 04:00:00 PDT Bilma, Niger-- The sun was setting on this ancient oasis in the Sahara the other day, as the villagers trudged across the sand toward their mud homes. But on Bilma's edge, away ...

ERG CHEBBI, Morocco - The bright black silhouettes of our three-camel caravan shines against a tall sand dune like a background drawing of the Three Kings in a Nativity scene. While Georgie, as I have ...

Heading on Highway 50, 22 miles east of Carson City, you glimpse something that makes you wonder if you've spent too many hours driving through the Nevada desert. But a second look confirms that you ...

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

At 10 on a crisp West Texas morning, five camel-trekkers stand under the open sky of the Davis Mountains. A few feet away, guide Doug Baum and Jason Mayfield load up five camels. Baum, a former ...