Sentences with phrase «on a camel across»

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Someone with a queasy stomach would do better to gallop on a raging bull camel across a desert than to stand stone still on a glacier.

Small silver pins like this camel found in Gonur must have been transported across the Central Asian Desert by merchants on camels.

By A.D. 1398, the Turkic conqueror Tamerlane had hit upon a new trick in his onslaught on Delhi: releasing flaming camels across the battlefield.

The long, middle stage across central Asia may have involved camels, says Stenseth, who could have caught fleas from gerbils and passed them on to humans.

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Tracks is based on the true story of «camel lady» Robyn Davidson, who, in 1977, walked across a huge stretch of Australia because she really hated being around other people.

Davidson says, by way of charming voiceover narration, that she didn't want to be a whiny bitch like the rest of her generation, but she replaces that option with becoming an ungrateful, surly, mortally - broken (by her mother's suicide — fair enough) girl - woman intent on taking camels with her on a trek across some of the most unforgiving terrain on the planet.

Tracks Director: John Curran Starring: Mia Wasikowski, Adam Driver Synopsis: A young woman goes on a 1,700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with her four camels and faithful dog.

A young woman journeys across the West Australian desert with four camels and a dog in director John Curran's drama based on a true story.

I've driven it on snow and ice, down rock - strewn paths and across sand dunes a camel would think twice about, and in each environment it coped exactly as you'd expect any Land Rover to.

He and his crew were captured by wandering Arabs and turned into slaves, forced to care for the camels, sleep on the rock hard desert floor and live on practically nothing except camel's milk as the caravan made a nine - month trek across the burning Sahara.

Imagine going on a 6 - day adventure of riding camels across the vast desert, dining with Saharan nomads and camping under the starry desert sky.

Specific beach highlights include: catching the amazing swell at the little - known surf beach in Lancelin; watching sunbathing kangaroos at Lucky Bay; walking on shores made entirely of shells at the imaginatively named Shell Beach; riding a camel across Western Australia's most famous seaside spot, Cable Beach, with its blood - red cliffs and 22 kilometres of brilliant white sand.

Race 4x4 vehicle's across desert dunes, experience dune bashing on a quad bike, ride a camel or try your hand at sand skiing.

Rise early to greet the new day and, after mint tea and breakfast, return across the desert on your camels to shower and depart.

Ride camels across Saharan sand dunes, chill out on the golden surf beaches of Essaouira, barter in the bustling souks of Marrakech and get lost in ancient Fes.

Host of the TV series Word Travels, broadcast on National Geographic Adventure and Travel Channel UK across over 100 countries and 21 languages, I've had some pretty amazing adventures as a solo female around the world — from hiking with mountain gorillas in Uganda, to touring radioactive Chernobyl, camel trekking through the Middle East, to devouring live slugs and deep - fried bugs in jungles and back alleys across the globe.

Enjoy a peaceful camel ride across the sand dunes in the cool morning air on this trek through stunning dune country.

Once you reach the desert campsite, hop on board a camel for a short ride across the desert.

Ride a camel across the dunes to watch sunrise or sunset, or hop on a Harley for a burn around Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (the Olgas).

Ride Quad Bikes across the sand dunes, climb on the back of a camel to experience the landscape like...

Eli, who actually has no horse in that camel race, came across an interesting pair of interviews on As It Happens, the CBC's evening news program with Steve Schroeder of Texas A&M and Kenneth Green the AEI quizmaster.

About two centuries before that travel across North Africa by horseback came to a halt, and camels were used from then on.

If by some chance we come across a steal on a leather chesterfield down the road, the camel back sofa style will work great in my music room too.