Camel - the ship of deserts of Africa
Life constantly prompts, that time flows everywhere with different speed. On a court yard of XXI century, and in some places of a planet - still stone. So, to this day in all nomad tribes of Sahara and Arabia camels are the greatest riches and as all are movable and make real estate...
They for centuries supported existence of the whole states, carrying out transportation of people, mails, salts, any loads, as a matter of fact causing in these deserts and oases trading communications and though which-ever civilization. Without humpbacked workers all these open spaces hardly would be manned to this day, despite of occurrence of rockets and helicopters. As a matter of fact - on humps of camels there are many deserted civilizations still up today!
Still, as well as hundred, and one thousand years ago, in many Islamic states the camel was and remains the basic vehicle and the main criterion of value. At all inflations by it (as vodka at Russia) the price is detemined for all other goods, whether it be a horse, a bride, a house or cattle. Any, even the richest sheikh or the simple nomad, "costs" so much, how much camels he has, thus the quantity of "Mercedeses" or palaces in calculation are not accepted!
From the point of view of the European, it is "absurdity", but for the inhabitant of deserts is a norm. He knows, how much the great states and conurbations of Asia and Africa with palaces, mosques and fountains have left after themselves only memoirs yes dusty thikets and have been swallowed by Desert for these hundreds and thousand years. And camel? It, as is seen, is alive, safe and prospers still