سوق الجما   SOUQ AL GAMAAL

At dawn on a Friday morning, Cairo's camel market, Souq al-Gamaal, held hundreds of camels that had been driven across the shifting sands from Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Aswan. These camels would either end up hauling tourists at the pyramids or swinging by the hooves in a slaughterhouse. They travel over 1,200 miles alone on the road in Egypt until they arrive in Cairo, a journey lasting 30 days and taking the same route used by convoys for hundreds of years. The camel trade is very profitable due to the reasonable price of camel meat compared to the high prices of other meats like cow, buffalo, and sheep. Camel meat is healthy, secure, and free from diseases or epidemics that affect other kinds of meat.

Cairo, Egypt