At the bottom of the Aral Sea, in what is now a desert of salt and dust, EurasiaNet Central Asia news editor David Trilling gets uncomfortably close with the two-humped camels. Named for a former province of the Persian Empire, Bactrian Camels were the workhorses - so to speak - of the Silk Road.
David Trilling is the Central Asia news editor for EurasiaNet.
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