ERG CHEBBI, Morocco – The bright black silhouettes of our three-camel caravan shone against a tall sand dune like a background drawing of the Three Kings in a Nativity scene. While Georgie, as I had ...

MERZOUGA, Morocco – The muted cadence of the camels' footsteps remains steady as the animals weave their way through the towering sand dunes of Erg Chebbi. Only a few kilometers into the desert, human ...

Perched securely on the hump of a camel named “Caboose,” I quickly realized this animal in Morocco was much friendlier than those I’d met on an earlier camel ride in Australia. The camels Down Under ...

ERG CHEBBI, Morocco - The bright black silhouettes of our three-camel caravan shone against a tall sand dune like a background drawing of the Three Kings in a Nativity scene. While Georgie, as I had ...

Amhayrich souk, Morocco's largest camel market, outside the southern Saharan town of Guelmim. The Amhayrich camel market, in the desert just outside the town of Guelmim in southern Morocco, is the ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco — Our two rows of camels rested in the darkness before dawn near the circle of tents in the towering Erg Chebbi dunes, a few miles from Morocco’s border with Algeria. The cool air ...

The dusty road to Marrakech had just started to straighten out after hours of tight curves along jagged mountains. We sped up when we spotted two policemen standing in the middle of the road by a ...

Camel livestock in Morocco is on the decline, due to the effects of climate change and diminishing pastures. Camels are part of the fabric of life for Saharan populations, providing meat, income, ...