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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 speed, for centuries camels' ability to withstand harsh conditions made them ideal for communication and trade in the desert areas of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Elephant with howdah. A howdah or houdah (Hindi: हौदा, romanized: haudā, derived from the Arabic هودج hawdaj which means 'bed carried by a camel') also known as hathi howdah (हाथी हौदा hāthī haudā), is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as a camel, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people ...
Historically, caravans connecting East Asia and Europe often carried luxurious and lucrative goods, such as silks or jewelry. Caravans could therefore require considerable investment and were a lucrative target for bandits.
A zamburak consisted of a soldier on a camel with a mounted swivel gun (a small falconet) hinged on a metal fork-rest protruding from the camel's saddle. To fire it, the camel was put on its knees. The name is derived from the Persian word for wasp zambur (زنبور), possibly in reference to the sound earlier camel-mounted crossbows made. The ...
Sudanese telegraph stamp depicting camel caravan (1898) Map of Bir Natrun, a stop on the trade route that was known as a valuable source of rock salt (1925) [1]. Darb El Arba'īn (Arabic: درب الاربعين) (also called the Forty Days Road, for the number of days the journey was said to take in antiquity) is the easternmost of the great north–south Trans-Saharan trade routes.
A camel train traveling from Agadez to Bilma (Niger), 1985. Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti (Mali) Rock salt at the market in Mopti. It is sold here in slabs, broken and weighed, and packaged into smaller amounts.
Horse packing with traditional Australian pack saddle. A pack animal, also known as a sumpter animal or beast of burden, is a working animal used to transport goods or materials by carrying them, usually on its back.
Many of the European competitors were also cameleers, and in 1903 a European camel train owner in Wilcannia replaced all of his Afghan camel drivers with Europeans. [15] Author Ryan Butta has highlighted the fact that the cameleers were rendered invisible in some of the popular mythologies and histories of Australia, such as Banjo Paterson's work.