Women are leading the way at Dubai's first camel riding school
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German expat Linda Krockenberger has set up the first officially licensed camel riding school in Dubai, and the first female camel racing team.
(CNN) — In the expanse of wind-carved sand just outside of the air-conditioned metropolis of Dubai, is the first officially licensed school in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dedicated to teaching camel riding.
For a country with a strong cultural connection to these animals, it might seem surprising that there aren't more such schools. What's even more surprising is that in a traditionally male-dominated practice like camel riding, one of the two founders of the Arabian Desert Camel Riding Center (ADCRC) is a woman -- 30-year-old German expat Linda Krockenberger.
The school was established in January 2021 a little over 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Dubai, on the cusp of the Al Marmoom desert in a farming settlement called Al Lisaili. In this socially conservative area, Krockenberger says it's uncommon to see women walking in the streets -- and before the school arrived, women here never rode camels.
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