Dubai's Prince Buys $2.7 Million Camel !!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: Guardian
April 8, 2008 Author: BARBARA SURK

MADINAT ZAYED, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai's crown prince bought a camel for an unprecedented high price of $2.7 million during a desert festival in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the son of Dubai's ruler Sheik Mohammed and his heir apparent, bought 16 camels for $4.5 million during a camel beauty pageant taking place during a desert carnival that aims to preserve the nomadic way of life in the oil-rich Gulf.

Sheik Hamdan paid $2.7 million for one camel, Emirates' state news agency WAM reported Tuesday. It gave no details on the camel and it was not clear if the sum was an official record.

There was no indication what Hamdan would use the camel for, including whether he would race it. Camels are a matter of prestige for the ruling elite in the Gulf.

More than 17,000 camels from the oil-rich Gulf countries - the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain - were registered for a camel beauty contest taking place over two weeks in the Emirates' Western desert.

Camels are registered for beauty contest in several categories, defined by age and skin color. The owners of the top three camels in each category split a $US2 million price fund and each receive a car from a pool of more than 100 4x4 vehicles and pickup trucks.

Five judges asses the camels' bodies as a whole and their necks, heads, lips, noses, humps, legs and feet separately.

The money and cars for the camel beauty contest were donated by the members of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, which organized the festival in a bid to preserve the nomadic way of life in the desert that predates the discovery of oil in the region in the 1960's.

The ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who is also the Emirates' president, and his brother Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed al-Nahyan both own an undisclosed number of camels.

Abu Dhabi is the capital of United Arab Emirates and, with the lion's share of the country's oil resources, the richest of the seven semiautonomous emirates that make up the Gulf country. Dubai, the largest emirate in population, has been undergoing an unprecedented boom as its leaders shape it into a major financial center.

[kambuli]

Duulkaa wax ka kibir xun ma leh Maxay waa baryey lacag daadiyeen

[PINK_BUNNY]

What can u say bout Miss Camel 2008!! Hotttt!!

[zulaika]

camal fokers bilaash laama dhihin qoladaas.

[surrender]

What can u say bout Miss Camel 2008!! Hotttt!!

to top it up we should give her award as well.

[Firefly]

That sum of money could feed more than half of the orphans in this world.

That being said, camels are beautiful creatures.

[Shirib]

Does it fly?

[FAH1223]

Somalia has 14 million camels.

[Enlightened~Sista]

Subhanallah people are dying of starvation and dont have a ball of rice to put down their throats and these people are wasted this risq from Allah like its nothing...its all about showing off nothing less.May Allah s.w.t guide us all amiin

Allah s.w.t says in the Quran

And give to the kinsman his due rights, as (also) to the needy and to the wayfarer.

And squander not (your wealth) in the manner of a spendthrift.

Verily the spendthrifts are the brothers of Shaitans (Satan) and the Shaitan was ever ungrateful to his Lord. (Al Isra-e' 26-27)

[MJ-Pride]

judges asses the camels' bodies as a whole and their necks, heads, lips, noses, humps, legs and feet separately.

Shaqa La'an baa haysaa carabtaan

[gurey25]

hey dont knock the camels,

they are beautifull animals..

[AsliUK]

Here are my two cents about 'em arabs...I wouldn't be surprise if they take that camel home and rape him/her. God I hate arabs!

One time when I was in Tunisia vacationing, I saw this old lady (Grandma) gather all them bastard Arab kids around her and then cuts the head of a chicken and throws the chicken among the children. The poor chicken with no head dangling from the skin of the neck jumps up and down for one minute, now this brought joy to those young bastards. Oh, and did I mention this was Eid Day. Bloody evil!

[gurey25]

headless chicken is a load of fun...

whats wrong with you?

[SummerRain]

No wonder I like Camel milk..

[MJ-Pride]

No wonder I like Camel milk..

Akhas thats nasty. They sell Camel meat in Lake street and Tried once and I wish I never had it. Very disturbing taste