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Caravan, Netherlands 2005.A travel trailer or caravan is towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents).
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A Hanomag-Henschel Orion recreational vehicle. Most modern dictionaries give one of the meanings for the word caravan as "a camper equipped with living quarters".
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An older-model Dodge motor home. Most modern dictionaries give one of the meanings for the word caravan as "a camper equipped with living quarters".
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A member of a Romany association, Alice Januel, displays an official document which authorizes French Romanies to travel with their caravan, during a press conference with members of different French Roma associations in Saint Ouen north of Paris, Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
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Saladin and the Mamluks assured the protection of Caravan routes that allowed travel to distant lands.
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House-Trailer at Crater Lake Hotel, Oregon, 1937.
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An interactive display about Ibn Battuta in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Lataband Rd. between Kabul and Surobi, Afghanistan. Numerous high passes ("kotal") transect the mountains, forming a strategically important network for the transit of caravans.
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Avdat
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Avdat architecture. ("The Southern Gate")
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Avdat earthquake damage.
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A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.
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Curracloe
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Dawlish Warren is a small seaside resort near the town of Dawlish on the south coast of Devon, England. Dawlish Warren consists almost entirely of holiday accommodation and facilities for holiday-makers, especially caravan sites.
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Roadsign
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Lahori Gate
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Giraffes in Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya
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Golden Highway
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Golden Highway
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An 18th century watchtower in Hatta
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Palmyra (Arabic: تدمر Tadmur) was an ancient Aramaic city[1][2][3], In the old times it was an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus[4] and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor. It has long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert. The earliest documented reference to the city by its Semitic name Tadmor, Tadmur or Tudmur (which means "the town that repels" in Amorite and "
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James A. Michener
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Montreal was a Crusader castle on the eastern side of the Arabah, perched on the side of a rocky, conical mountain, looking out over fruit trees below. The ruins, called Shobak or Shawbak in Arabic, are located in modern Jordan.
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Roadside 'rest area' 20km north of Wentworth NSW. Rest areas in Australia are a recurrent feature of the road network in rural areas. They are the responsibility of a variety of authorities, such as a state transport or main roads bureau, or a local government's works department.
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An oasis is an isolated water source with vegetation in desert
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Spring Mountain Ranch State Park is a Nevada state park in Clark County, Nevada. It is located within Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in the Cottonwood Valley, 15.2 miles west of Las Vegas. It has a picnic area and a summer theater program. It is in the Southern Region of Nevada State Parks.
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The Bristol Lodekka was a low-height double-decker bus built by Bristol Commercial Vehicles in England.
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Andronikos III Palaiologos
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A petroglyph of a caravan of bighorn sheep near Moab, Utah, USA; a common theme in glyphs from the desert southwest
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An image of an early 20th century Oirat caravan, taken in either China or Mongolia, traveling on horseback, possibly to trade goods