A click and a few hundred euro are enough in order to have a camel, or rather a 'Camelus dromedarius', all yours in the oasis of Djanet, 2,000 kilometres south of Algiers, ready to accompany you on the discovery of Algerian Sahara, amid the immense dunes and the reddish mountains of Tassili d'Aljer. 'A camel to work' is the ingenious initiative for distance adoption created by Hamiani, a young Tuareg camel driver, and Alissa, an adventurous Japanese woman overwhelmed by the fascination of Sahara, in order to fight unemployment and to safeguard the cultural heritage of the oasis of Djanet. "We wanted to find a way to repopulate the region with camels and give job to the numerous camel drivers in southern Algeria, who are already unemployed," ...
ALGERIA: ONLINE CAMEL ADOPTION COMES FROM SAHARA
11.09.2008 - ANSAmed
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