Camel Graveyard in the Sudanese Desert: Snapshot Sunday
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One day while we were cycling through the Sudan, we cam across an eerie site.
Dead camels were strewn beside the highway buried in the desert sand. Their decaying corpses littered the desert for several kms as we cycled by.
We had heard that as camel caravans walk through the desert some camels are not strong enough to make it. They are left to be engulfed by the great Nubian Desert sands.
Another theory that we heard was that when a camel dies in a nearby village, they are brought out to the desert and buried here.
Whatever the case may be for the “Dead Camel Highway” it made for a unique and memorable moment when a man and child rode by on their donkeys without giving us a second glance.
Bedouins ride through a Camel Graveyard in the Sudanese desert
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Wow, that’s a crazy picture, demonstrating that only the fit will survive in such harsh conditions. I imagine the dry heat dries out a carcass pretty fast.
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Yes, I think that it would dry things out quickly. I also wonder if it preserves things better too. We don’t know how long these camels had been there, but they weren’t decaying like you would expect a carcass to.
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Wow! I think this is one of the best shots I’ve seen here so far.
Beautiful photo, congrats.
Whoa, that’s one hell of an image. Poor camel.
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