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Ethiopia

Here we have a California Camel herder looking for a buyer.
Well Fred this looks like the last time we will see each other!
She just didn't look too happy to have a dude walking around in shorts.
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Heavy negotiations taking place.
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Adios guys.. this is it!!!!
I really never liked you..
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Amazing what you can do with a smile and a Camera. Then you show them their photo and you have made a new friend.
Photo of the market showing both sides of the wall
There is an ongoing vibrant camel trade in Ethiopia involving some twenty or more chain markets with a trade volume of about 3,000 camels per week in the peak seasons. The volume of this trade alone could challenge camel population estimates in Ethiopia
This trade engages various actors composed of mixed ethnic groups with overlapping roles: pastoralists, who are the primary producers but also double as trekkers; agro-pastoralists, who play various roles as primary producers, conditioners, and/or trekkers; and farmers, who, contrary to past traditions, are increasingly emerging as camel conditioners, trekkers, and traders.
The trade route runs from the central eastern parts to northern Ethiopia and Sudan. Main destination markets are the salt mines in northeastern Ethiopia and the cross-border trade to Sudan, with numerous staging and conditioning points in between that lie across the twenty or so chain markets en-route.
This market chain generates a transaction of some two to three million U.S. dollars per month for an average of nine months per year and involves a forty-day trekking route from the primary markets in the central east to the crossing point into Sudan.
Reminds you of a new car lot trying to pick out the best one.
One of my new found friends that followed me from the goat market side to the camel side.
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Serious negotiating.

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