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  Sunday 2004-06-13 - Aşgabat, Turkmenistan

Flying camels

Our Aşgabat city tour today starts with a visit to the Sunday market, better known as the Talkoetsjka bazaar, on the outskirts of the city. Here we see a curious phenomenon — flying camels: Camels that have found a new owner are hoisted onto the owner’s truck with a crane parked here specially for the purpose — under loud protest from the scared camels, of course, but causing no obvious harm.

posted: Saturday 2004-06-19 17:47 UTC markets