Even though Wilfred Thesiger did his great camel journeys between the years of 1945-50, experiences from which he based his classic book, [...]

There´s no doubt in my case that it was books which made me choose this odd life and I really need to be [...]

 ”I will miss sleeping under the stars” , Tanya said whilst we were cooking our last dinner under a moonlit sky full [...]

“She is almost white like you and she goes to school, so she is educated” , Sheikh Saleem Hamid Ambe Somota Al [...]

 Poor me By Tanya Holm I am about to fall asleep when Saada Saida tells the other women that I have no [...]

“I just feel cheated all the time” , I said to the camera slightly upset, at the same time as we walked [...]

”It looks younger than you say” , I told the crowd watching me walking backwards, checking the camel who had been offered [...]

“This will be top news here for the coming 10 years!” Sheikh Saleem laughed out loud whilst I was cooking a costumary [...]

AL-Qaeda has no interest in us, therefore they do not exist. Day 17 – July 2 - We made it to an area [...]

Day 15  On our way again in the desert. Three days away from the end of our camel journey through the desert [...]