The word "caravans" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of vehicles, usually led by a single vehicle, or to a group of travelers that are traveling in a convoy. For example, "The caravan of cars slowly through the desert sand."
No one is sure how ancient the carvings are, but most of them probably date from around 800AD, when llama caravans started to cross the Atacama.
Except that now there are no caravans of gold, just beaten-up lorries juddering between dunes with hopeful Africans as their cargo.
"Not only will the caravans have moved on in different directions of trade negotiations, but what has already been on the table…will have been put into deep freeze .Back into the fridgeThe consequences of putting the Doha round into cold storage come in two parts.
"If it's not concluded this year, it won't be concluded next year and by 2010 the caravans will have moved on elsewhere," said Peter Mandelson, the European Union's trade commissioner, at the World Economic Forum in January.
He used Google Earth to find tracks used to carry the rock, probably in llama caravans, away from a quarry site at Colca Canyon, at an altitude of 4,600 metres, in southern Peru.
All this should provide jobs for local people.Not quickly enough, however, for the several hundred laid off recently by a clutch of local caravan makers: caravans are a cyclical business, say locals.
They act, in effect, like caravans holding up road traffic.Air-lockLast summer, the entire country was in chaos.
Sam North is that writer.In his sixth novel, "The Unnumbered", Mr North travels to parts of London some of us never reach, wasteland gypsy caravans, warm subway tunnels, the mossy extremities of St Pancras cemetery and the cardboard sleeperies of the underpass at Centre Point in the West End.
Rioters burned Roma caravans and huts; the authorities followed up with arrests and deportations.West European attitudes differ little in essence from those of the ex-communist bureaucrats in the east.
Second, unauthorised caravans are expensive to move on and clear up after.
IT HAS been a week of humiliating climbdowns for the government, which was bullied into changing course over taxes on pies and caravans as well as a gay-marriage vote (see article).
