Nomad family visit

On the way out to the Sahara we stopped again in our 4x4s and had tea and bread with a nomadic family. We all got under a giant tent that was lined with carpets, and the roof was woven wool from their camels. There is a permanent structure that's their home base that they come back to, but they spend all of the grazing season pushing their sheep and goats to fertile land. At one point the mom told the daughter to go chase one of their donkeys out of a water bucket and he was not very happy. They have to track a mile to get water so they ration it accordingly. The wife showed us how she combs sheared camel hair with these two large paddle combs. Then she rolls clumps of it into thin cylinders, and then works it with her two fingers to work it even thinner into a thread which she ties around a spool. Super cool.Read more