Wish You Were Here MOROCCO: Mill Valley travelers Hugh Vincent and Joan Watson’s adventures in Morocco earlier this year included “riding camels in the Sahara Desert to get to our camp ...

spending a night in a Sahara desert luxury camp (aka going glamping in the Sahara) was EASILY the experience I was most excited for. Riding camels through the sand dunes of the Sahara – really ...

The camel I was riding in the Sahara Desert in Morocco had been domesticated and trained since birth to take people into the Erg Chebbi, a corner of the red sand desert just a few miles from the ...

In the Oued Eddahab desert in Western Sahara, Habiboullah Dlimi raises dairy and racing camels just like his ancestors used to -- but with a little help from modern technology. At dawn and dusk in ...

Petrified tree trunks jut from the desert ... where camels fear to go.” Called Gadoufaoua (Ga-doo-fawa) by French geologists who visited in the 1950s, this 100-mile stretch of the Sahara ...

But I didn’t want to miss the sunrise over the Sahara ... then hold on for dear life as the camel stands up. “To nomads, the camel is the ship of the desert,” said Karaoui.

My daughter is both. A highlight of our Morocco trip in February was a foray into the Sahara Desert by camel — a one-humped creature actually called a dromedary and perfectly suited for desert ...

“We had thought the rocks were useless.” As Bagouma and his son traverse the desert with their camels, they keep their eyes on the ground. Only once, said Bagouma, did he find a stone of any ...