Caravan

The word caravan has various meanings:

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• Overland trading convoys, often using the camel as a beast of burden, and generally associated with crossing deserts in Asia or Africa. The word "caravan" is of Persian origin.
• For similar phenomena in Australia, see camel train.
• For a North American analogue, see wagon train.
• See also caravanserai, Roma.
• Mobile housing, see travel trailer and recreational vehicle.
• An annual multicultural festival in Toronto, Canada.

As a tradename or proper name:

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• Dodge Caravan, a brand of Minivan
• Cessna 208 Caravan, a utility airplane
• Caravan Industry Training, an Industry Organisation
• Caravan, a Jazz standard, composed by Duke Ellington
• Caravan, a British rock/jazz band from the Canterbury area.
• Caravans, a 1978 movie.

Caravan related Images and Photos (experimental)

Caravan I	Caravan Route	The Caravan	Dromedary Caravan near Nouakchott Mauritania
Camel Caravan at Sunrise Silk Road China	Medicine Ball Caravan 1971	Caravan of Pilgrims Cross the Desert to Mecca	A Camel Caravan Crosses a Landscape of Sculpted Sand Dunes
The Queen of the Caravan	Larson Logging Co with 13 Truck Caravan - Bellingham WA	Tenere Desert Camel Caravan Travelling Through the Air Mountains and Tenere Desert Niger	Entrance of Heinrich Barth's (1821-65) Caravan into Timbuktu in 1853