This desert tourist really walked the walk. Caitlin Redden, from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was visiting Petra, Jordan when she was invited to stay with a nomadic desert tribe for a day — and nearly ...

In the Gran Chaco Region, which stretches into both Paraguay and Bolivia, the Ayoreo tribe shows what happens when outsiders ...

No one knows exactly where the Bakhtiari people came from before settling in the Zagros Mountains. But over the past several thousand years, their roots have grown deep into this land — in what is now ...

Rare images of members of the world’s largest uncontacted tribe show them emerging from the Peruvian Amazon – only miles from where companies are controversially logging pristine rainforest. The ...

TEHRAN - Tribes are a proud and living part of Iran’s civilization, and their thousands of years of experience have turned travel among them into a unique and memorable journey. In an age shaped by ...

GILGIT, PakistanGILGIT, Pakistan — A snowy avalanche in northern Pakistan killed 11 people Saturday, including a 4-year-old boy, and injured 25 from a nomadic tribe as they crossed a mountainous area ...

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - B orn into the last known nomadic tribe in Colombia, Joaquin Niijbe spent his boyhood roaming the jungle and hunting monkeys.

Part of the Bakhtiari people, they live as their ancestors did, migrating between pastures in western and southwestern Iran. Women play a vital... No one knows exactly where the Bakhtiari people came ...

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