The Ministry of Interior has dedicated a special pavilion for camel rider procession at the International Saudi Falcons and Hunting Exhibition 2024.
According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the pavilion celebrated camel’s longstanding heritage and its great status in the Arabian Peninsula.
Camels were a primary means of transportation across vast distances offering a good company to combat the isolation of long journeys.
This long companionship has inspired poets and writers to document the camel’s unwavering loyalty to humans through tales, poems and proverbs.
Today the camels remain one of the basic elements of Saudi Arabia’s history and civilization.
At the end of 2023, the Saudi Cabinet officially named the year 2024 ‘the Year of the Camel’, celebrating the unique cultural value of camels in the Arabian Peninsula from the dawn of history up to the present day.
“Camels have long occupied a special place in the societies of the Arabian Peninsula, including the kingdom of Saudi Arabia; they were a means of transportation across vast distances, crossing mountains, valleys, and deserts, similar to ship movements within the sea waves,” the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) said.
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