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If you’ve ever fancied yourself a latter-day Theisger, a trip to Ibri’s lively livestock auction (in front of Ibri Fort; 8am-10am) is the perfect place to gear-up for your trip across the Rub al-Khali. The desert-ship of your dreams (i.e., a camel) is all a matter of outbidding the guy in the deep-pocketed dishdasha (shirt-dress) next to you. From goats and cows to dates and honey (and swords and rifles even) the livestock souk is the place to stock-up for a desert adventure.
On Friday mornings from mid-October to mid-April the Seih Al-Masarat Camel Field (left at the hospital roundabout, follow the signs; admission free) hosts a spectacle like no other. First, blaring horns, then a wall of dust and out of the cloud, lumbering giants appear - moving like you’ve never seen before. Egged on by the whipping of their robot riders, the humped-back beasts pad by almost silently. On either side of the track, the vehicular mob, all horns and flashing lights, keep time with the riders at 40 km an hour, all the way to the finish line.
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