The Idling Camel Man of Mombasa
Rocketboom field correspondent
http://www.rocketboom.com/field-correspondents/
Ruud Elmendorp
http://www.videoreporter.nl/
profiles Sharif Osman, a Mombasa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombasa
Camel Man or “beach boy”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DEEDD163BF930A35751C1A9649C8B63
whose business has been hurt by tourists’ reluctance
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/travel/story.html?id=e0ebd242-662c-4fcd-97cb-14c28f0be1ca
to visit Kenya after recent post-election violence.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Kenya.html
Previous Rocketboom coverage of the Kenyan election crisis
http://www.rocketboom.com/tag/kenyan-presidential-election/
Kenya in Crisis page from the Rocketboom wiki
http://rocketboom.wikia.com/wiki/Kenya
More stories by Ruud Elmendorp
http://www.rocketboom.com/tag/ruud-elmendorp/
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:35 am
alo wan a rraid!!! lamoooooooo- poor cammel!
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:45 am
Ruud Elmendrop… Riding a camel.
What a beautiful scene.
December 24th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Me too. Only $12 a day to survive? Had those tourists known, I’d hope that maybe they’d given him like, five bucks anyway.
December 27th, 2006 at 11:24 am
I’de like to send that camel a few dollars.
December 28th, 2006 at 4:58 am
lol its in dutch 🙂
December 28th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
I would so go to Kenya for the purpose of riding that camel.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:43 pm
If this guy is paying for product placement I demand full disclosure. haha
January 1st, 2007 at 1:31 am
The fortunes of carnies who pick a career based on the number of bikini clad girls they get to flirt with every day aren’t really a reliable indicator of a country’s economic wellbeing.
Talk to the guy’s running the Shell Game for the real scoop.
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
1. I have never ridden a turtle. Maybe it would be fun. Especially if they are larger than the ones in the pet shops.
2. If the camel were shipped to Northern Calif, I might go ride it for $3.00.
January 4th, 2007 at 8:53 am
camels are really fun to ride!
January 5th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I sort of understood what it was about, but now I grasp a bit more thanks to your reply.
What I really didn’t get was, sad as this may be, how it is related to tech (which is what I thought rocketboom did stories on).
January 9th, 2007 at 12:48 am
If I could, I would just hand that poor guy and his camel twenty bucks to last him for a couple days… Unfortunately, I don’t live in Kenya…
January 12th, 2007 at 11:02 am
Kenya almost descended into civil war earlier this year. So tourists stop coming. So there isn’t anyone to take camel rides. So this fella can’t afford to feed himself and his camel.
January 13th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I like turtles!
January 17th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Lets hope tourism starts kicking in again.
January 20th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Third comment
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I love riding camels 😀
January 25th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I don’t get it