“Dabuka” camel’s journey from Sudan to the Shalateen market..I know everything about it

The beauty market Pallatin One of the most famous camel markets in Egypt, and camels arrive from Sudanese cities in successive trips and take several days to reach the market.

– The dabka trip starts from the Sudanese cities and valleys following gathering at a specific point on the Sudanese border and conducting a veterinary examination on it on foot towards Egypt.

– She arrives at the Ras Hadraba land port following a few days, following which she is subjected to a veterinary examination and given the necessary doses to immunize her, then she continues her journey to the Jamal Shalateen market.

– The camels go on a “Dabuka” trip, accompanied by their guards, in the Sudanese mountain valleys. When they reach the Ras Hadraba port, they are subjected to the veterinary quarantine and are released by the knowledge of veterinarians, they walk parallel to the road linking the cities of Halayeb, Abu Ramad and Shalateen to the camel market.

– It takes two days or more, according to its numbers, and the veterinary examination process on it inside the Harba land port.

The camels are led by Sudanese guards affiliated with the Sudanese traders, owners of camels who want to sell them in the Shalateen International Market.

– The guards depend most of the time on walking during the day, in the hot sunny weather, in anticipation of the dangers of the night and not knowing the way between the mountain paths at night.

– The places of rest for them during the trip. “Dabuka” is the location of the wells and the so-called watering place, that is, the watering and drinking of camels, where the guards accompanying the herd of camels know well the locations of the wells and follow any tribe.

– The number of camels in one tank is up to 500 camels, with the mark of each merchant


Dabuka on her way from Sudan to Egypt

Al-Dabuka camel's journey from Sudan to Shalateen
Al-Dabuka camel’s journey from Sudan to Shalateen

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