The largest Camel Souq / Market in the Middle East is just a few miles outside Riyadh, the capitol of Saudi Arabia.
Camel Souq
Medium: 17kb In the picture above you can see that visitors are free to walk around, examine the camels and experience a camel market that has changed little in the last few hundred years. |
Business Office
Medium: 20kb The image above shows three men sitting and discussing camel business at the Camel Souq. Rugs are often placed directly on the desert sand to define a place to sit and enjoy the company of friends and family. |
Branded Camel
Medium: 17kb The photograph above is an example of camel branding marks. |
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Peek-A-Boo
Medium: 19kb The photograph above shows a baby camel looking for lunch. |
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Sold!
Medium: 18kb How do you get a newly purchased camel home? |
Arab poets have often called the camel 'the ship of the desert'. Arabian camels have several features that make it ideally suited to desert life. Its feet have wide pads with slimly built legs that help it move easily over the desert, can tolerate thirst for long periods, and can eat the tough thorny shrubs in the desert that even sheep and goats pass over.
The camel is a strange animal because they seem to lack the perception that wild animals have for finding its own food. Camel owners will often go with their camels to show them where they can forage for food. Other times, when the camels are reasonably well fed, they are allowed to wander. They may be gone for several days before they return to their owner for water.
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Pamela Camel by Bill Peet Poor Pamela is insulted and abused by everyone at the circus, because they thinks she's dumb, so she runs away, following a train track. That's how she sees a broken train rail, stands on the track to stop an oncoming train, and saves the day. Children will be attracted to the bright colors, sense of action and drama, and expressive faces characteristic of this highly popular autho/artist's work. An excellent book for children of all ages. |
Saudi Arabian Trivia
Bedouins have used the camel for many purposes including; transportation, meat, milk, and sometimes they make use of their skins.