caravans
Traveling merchant trains
Caravans is the plural of caravan.
A caravan is a group traveling together, especially across desert or hostile territory: a caravan of merchants crossing the Sahara.
The word extends to a line of vehicles moving together.
In British English, a caravan is a travel trailer—a wheeled dwelling towed behind a vehicle for camping holidays: They spent summers in their caravan.
Guarded traveling group
- journeyTravel from place to place
- nomadsUnsettled, roving people
- desertTo leave behind completely
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
Silk Road · traders · camels · oasis · migration · Bedouin · wayfarers · pilgrimage
Exchange of commodities
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- goodsThings for sale
- spicesAromatic food flavorings
- silkFine woven insect fiber
bazaar · exchange · markets · commodities · laden · trading posts · frankincense · gold
Towed vehicles or film previews
- campersThose who lodge outdoors
- motorhomesSelf-propelled living quarters
- towingPulling another vehicle along
- RVMobile living quarters
campsite · holiday · touring · hitching · awning · berth · pitch · park
Nomadic ethnic group
- wagonsPulled four-wheeled vehicles
- itinerantMoving for work
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
- fairgroundOutdoor amusement venue
painted · wooden · horses · settlement · site · community · Roma · tinkers
convoy
Guarded traveling group
expedition · Silk Road · traders · camels · oasis · migration · Bedouin · wayfarers · pilgrimage · routes
trade
Exchange of commodities
silk · bazaar · exchange · markets · commodities · laden · trading posts · frankincense · gold · salt
trailers
Towed vehicles or film previews
- campersThose who lodge outdoors
- motorhomesSelf-propelled living quarters
- towingPulling another vehicle along
RV · campsite · holiday · touring · hitching · awning · berth · pitch · park · mobile
Romani
Nomadic ethnic group
- wagonsPulled four-wheeled vehicles
- itinerantMoving for work
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
fairground · painted · wooden · horses · settlement · site · community · Roma · tinkers · nomadic
- historical tradebarter, Silk Road, bartering, spice trade, barter system
- Indigenous Tradebartering, trade networks, trade goods, salt trade, regional trade
- Nomadic PeoplesMongols, Scythians, Huns, Tatars, Bedouins
- Ottoman travelConstantinople, Istanbul, Bosphorus, Grand Bazaar, Hagia Sophia
- Biblical ArabiaArabia, Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Desert, Ishmael, Hagar
- desertsand, sand dunes, sand dune, dune, dunes
caravanssolo travelers
People journeying alone
individuals · hermits · loners · lone wolves
caravanshouses
Buildings for living
buildings · brick houses · foundations · cottages · mansions
- camel caravanLine of pack dromedaries
- desert caravanGroup crossing arid wilderness
- trade caravanCommercial expedition transporting goods
- Dodge CaravanAmerican family minivan
- caravan routePath for merchant convoys
- caravan parkSite for touring vehicles
caravan, caravaned, caravaning, caravanned, caravanning, caravanserai, caravan park