Posts Tagged ‘Bedouin

There is electricity here, satellite television and mobile phones.

Day 9, June 24. It’s 50 degrees Celsius and in the shade, it’s 43 degrees.  We make our way when we have [...]

“Can it – the GPS – tell me where water is?”

Day 1 June 16, 2012 – in the middle of nowhere waiting to see if we have camel.  We have camel. Day [...]

Expedition Yemen By Camel; Frustrations and understanding

“We are muslims and we have no fears for the future” , Mohammed said during the interview and continued; “God is great”. [...]

Expedition Yemen By Camel, Training in the desert

We did a test walk, Tanya and me, today. 10 km.s in the worst Midday heat. Easy. Tanya did real well, I kept up a 5 km/hour speed and she tagged a long easy, carrying 2 litres of water in her Camelbak and our lunch. She had my shoes and they worke…

Expedition Yemen By Camel; I am Mikael´s new Expedition partner

I think that probably the most important important aspect of a successful Expedition is having the right partner. I have had both [...]

Understanding the traditional ways of the Bedouin….

….is understanding the many times confusing ways to get things done in Oman. And, I am sure, in quite a few other [...]

Nasr, the Bedouin and additional worries….

“I have put everything on hold” , Nasr told me with sadness, “My father wants me to get married. And since I [...]

Rub Al-Khali, part one

”What is her name?” I asked Mussalam Bin Hassan and he forwarded the question immediately to his friend, Mussalam, who shook his [...]

Angresi, are you stupid?

”Is he stupid?!” the annoyed Bedu woman shouted through the window of her rusty pick up car, pointing at an illustrious camel [...]

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