4 Month Mongolian Camel Expedition with Tamar Valkenier (Women Who Work With Camels)

Today we are interviewing and featuring Dutch born Tamar Valkenier about her 4 month Mongolian Camel Expedition as part of our #WomenWhoWorkWithCamels series.

Tamar shares the challenges she faced in such harsh environments and how being with camels 24/7 changed her as a person forever.

Tamar gave up her promising career in 2015, Graduated with A+ as a criminologist as well as a psychologist, she worked as a Investigative Psychologist for the Dutch National Police.

Although she loved her dream-job, she wanted to experience a different reality beyond another horizon. She built her own bicycle and cycled towards Istanbul (without a map). Once set out, she fell from one adventure into the other: she lived with jungle tribes, hitchhiked in panama, rock climbed in Greece, lived off the land in Australia, and eventually she ended up in Mongolia:

Tamar Valkenier on her 4 month Mongolian Camel Expedition.

She bought a horse, a camel and got a dog and walked alone in the remote Altai Mountains for 4 months, learning the ancient art of eagle hunting and about survival techniques, she completed the expedition in 2018 and then gained her papers to become an official wilderness guide: In the Canadian Rockies she learned about the local edible plants, herbal medicine, animal tracking and survival-skills.

In December of 2018 she set off with Miriam Lancewood (author of “Woman in the Wilderness”) and who we’ve personally interviewed for this podcast, on their Epic Female Expedition in New Zealand. They survived for more than 2 months on hunting, fishing and gathering edible plants. They roamed with heavy backpacks and rifles over 8 mountain passes, well away from trails and tracks, and discovered the heart of the wilderness

Without further to do and say you gotta tune into this inspiring interview which, for us, took our imagination to wild places thinking about trekking with camels in the Mongolian Altai Mountains. Make sure you Stay tuned to the end as we have a very special announcement for adventurous camel lovers! 

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