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Dec 16, 2007 John Paskey

Just Wandering

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Three men and their camels, wandering around in the Sahara ...for a living,
and quite happy about it from what I gathered (not being able to speak much Arabic).
Good for them. Tougher than tough really, I would die in a day or two probably -

A quick rant: it, the Sahara, is definitely not like the movies. You don't get lost
and walk around sweating your ass off. You shrivel up and die, very painfully probably,
because of the sun poisoning. It's too dry and hot for sweat to build up. The sun is
scorching. The temperature reaches an easy 100 degrees everyday. Your always thirsty.
Oh yeah, thats in the winter months. To sound like a cliche, it's unforgiving.
These guys. They can find water under rocks. Use Camel crap as sunscreen. Eat
numerous things not mentionable here. They wander, but they know how.

Taken in the middle of nowhere, half a days drive south from Jebel Barkal, Sudan.


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