Video: Camel Race in Niger

Video: Camel Race in Niger
Video: Camel Race in Niger
When Traveler contributing writer Donovan Webster and his son James traveled to Niger late last year for the annual Tuareg Festival, they managed to get prime seats for the festival’s main event: the Camel Races. Of course, those seats were in a Land Cruiser driving along a dusty, bouncy stretch of desert… On the last…

Tuareg Style

Tuareg Style
Tuareg Style
Author and National Geographic Traveler writer Donovan Webster reports from a recent visit to Niger, where he attended the annual Tuareg Festival. Read his first post here. With a sartorial tradition that stretches back far before people began recording such things, the Tuaregs of North Africa (an arm of the berbers) still dress both for…