Photo of the Week: Nov. 26, 2010

David Trilling

Men lure a dromedary camel into a truck in Ashgabat's Tolkuchka Bazaar. The beasts sell for between $500 and $1,000 and are prized in Turkmenistan for their wool, milk and meat, which is low in fat and thus often dry, but tastes a bit like beef.

David Trilling is EurasiaNet's Central Asia editor.