Camel Trains

Prompt 4: Somewhere in your world setting describe a vehicle or type of vehicle used for long journeys.
Camel Trains
In the Northern Desert camelback is the preferred means of transportation. The camel’s wide, soft, cloven foot and water reserve is of vital importance to travelling any large distance on wide-open sandy plains. Horses are used but for shorter legs 4 hours at most, before they become exhausted from the heat and are not used on the dunes only on the harder rocky surfaces where their hooves don’t sink into the sand.
In the northern desert, if you want to travel between villages or further, due to the large distances between settlements, camels are the only choice. For this reason the Duskashar’ri travel in long camel trains sometimes as long as 100 camels. The camel trains provide fast movement, high carry capacity, and protection in numbers. They maintain single file movement to hide their numbers from enemies and bandits and follow the natural rocky outcrops and plateaus wherever possible to avoid detection and to avoid the giant sand spiders. Of any caravan half its number will be made of warriors to protect with the rest will be made up of merchants and villages travelling to towns for trade or family business, vary rarely they caravans will also contain a traveller, but they will only be allowed to journey if they have taken the mother’s milk with a tribe.
The caravans travel in the early hours of the morning and the late hours of the evening, camping for a long rest for 8 hours in the middle of the day to avoid the hottest part of the day, they take another rest in the middle of the night for 2-3 hours to rest and feed the camels and eat an evening meal by a warm fire to stave off the cold. To do this the camel trains employ a day tent, a sandy white colour, round, walled with steep roofs that keep out the sand, reflect the heat and provide camouflage. During the night the camel train puts up a tent made of thick dark woollen material with walls, steep sides, and an opening in the centre of the roof. The thick woollen material blocks the light from the fire, camouflaging the group from any potential observes, whilst keeping in the warmth of the fire. The evening meal is a festive event including succulent meat, flatbreads, various, rice, chickpea and lentil dishes as well as sumptuous dips to the bread and meats.
The camels in the camel train are usually elaborately decorated with fine cloths and saddlebags which help to denote traders' wealth and importance, which signifies the quality of their wares to decerning buyers. The warriors' camels are equally elaborately dressed, if more subtle in their display, these displays denote the warrior’s rank and prowess in the tribe. The more elabo=rately dressed the camel is the more the warrior has distinguished himself in battle and earnt rank in the tribe's soldierly ranks.