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Date	Country	Title
1999 10 21	Turkey	A house in Istanbul
1999 10 21	Turkey	The hippodrome: Egyptian obelisk, Blue Mosque
1999 10 22	Turkey	TopkapÔ Palace: inside the harem
1999 10 22	Turkey	Aya Sofya, or Church of the Divine Wisdom
1999 10 22	Turkey	Mosaic inside Aya Sofya (12th century): Empress Zoe, Constantine Monomachus, and Christ
1999 10 22	Turkey	Interior of Hagia Sophia (the Divine Wisdom)
1999 10 31	Turkey	Fresco at Aya Sofya Church, Trabzon
1999 11 01	Turkey	Cifte Minare Medrese in Erzurum -- Ibrahim, Selvi, Metin
1999 11 02	Turkey	Old house in Pasinler
1999 11 04	Turkey	Sivas Medrese faÁade
1999 11 05	Turkey	The 'revolving' tomb, Kayseri
1999 11 06	Turkey	Eski G¸m¸sler Monastery
1999 11 08	Turkey	Fresco from church in Gˆreme, Cappadocia
1999 11 12	Turkey	Bursa -- details of tiles in a tomb
1999 11 13	Turkey	Ephesus -- the library of Celsus
1999 11 14	Turkey	Half the Aphrodisias stadium
1999 11 15	Turkey	Happy at the temple at Didyma
1999 11 18	Turkey	Having found the acropolis at Termessos
1999 11 19	Turkey	Whirling Dervish monastery at Konya
1999 11 20	Turkey	Deir El Zaferan Syrian Orthodox Monastery Church, with the Kurdish bus conductor Musa who persuaded me to go there
1999 11 23	Syria	A street in Aleppo
1999 11 24	Syria	The stump of St Simeon Stylites' pillar
1999 11 25	Syria	Entrance to Aleppo's citadel
1999 11 29	Jordan	Petra's 'Monastery' tomb
1999 12 04	Jordan	Alexa inside Philadelphia's theatre
1999 12 06	Syria	The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
1999 12 09	Syria	Palmyra by day
1999 12 13	Lebanon	Baalbek's Temple of Jupiter
1999 12 13	Lebanon	Tripoli's clock tower at 7.30 am
1999 12 15	Lebanon	Byblos Jbail -- ancient ruins next to medieval town next to modern city
1999 12 21	Syria	Bosra's theatre-citadel
1999 12 21	Syria	Camel mosaic in Bosra
2000 01 05	Jordan	Back in Petra -- the Treasury viewed through the Siq
2000 01 12	Oman	An old house in Mutrah
2000 01 25	Iran	The front entrance to the Masjed-e-Emam
2000 01 25	Iran	Ceiling in the Ali Qapu palace
2000 01 25	Iran	Detail inside the Masjed-e-Emam
2000 01 25	Iran	Imam Khomeini square
2000 01 25	Iran	Masjed-e-Imam
2000 01 25	Iran	Chehel Sotun Palace
2000 01 28	Iran	The tomb of the poet Hafiz in Shiraz
2000 01 29	Iran	The dome and minaret of the Bogh-e-ye Shahe Cheragh
2000 01 30	Iran	Achaemenid sculpture at Persepolis (1)
2000 01 30	Iran	Achaemenid sculpture at Persepolis (2)
2000 01 30	Iran	Achaemenid sculpture at Persepolis (3)
2000 01 30	Iran	Early-flowering thornbush at Qala-ye-Dokhtar (a 3rd-c. Sassanian fortress near Firuzabad)
2000 01 30	Iran	Chantal beside the cracked tower at Qala-ye-Dokhtar
2000 01 30	Iran	Chantal on the edge at the fortress of Firuzabad
2000 01 30	Iran	A tomb at Naqsh-e-Rostam, near Pasargadae
2000 01 30	Iran	The tomb of Cyrus the Great (died 512 BC)
2000 01 31	Iran	Arg (fortress) of Shiraz
2000 02 01	Iran	Man making mud bricks at Bam
2000 02 01	Iran	The Arg-e Bam
2000 02 01	Iran	An entrance to Bam's castle
2000 02 01	Iran	View of Bam's castle and ruined town
2000 02 01	Iran	Arg-e Bam
2000 02 02	Iran	Masjid-i-Pa-Minar, Kerman --- tiles (1)
2000 02 02	Iran	Masjid-i-Pa-Minar, Kerman --- tiles (2)
2000 02 02	Iran	Masjid-i-Pa-Minar, Kerman --- tiles (3)
2000 02 02	Iran	Dome of the Masjid-i-Jami, Kerman
2000 02 02	Iran	Entrance to former hammam (bath house) in Kerman
2000 02 02	Iran	A mosque in Kerman
2000 02 02	Iran	Kerman's Masjed-e-Jame
2000 02 03	Iran	Mir Chakhmaq Mosque, Yazd
2000 02 03	Iran	A building with a wind tower in Yazd
2000 02 03	Iran	Dome of the Mosque of Imam Reza, Yazd
2000 02 03	Iran	Tiled multiple vault over eivan at entrance to Imam Reza Mosque, Yazd
2000 02 04	Iran	View of the women's tower --- where bodies were left for the vultures (near Yazd)
2000 02 05	Iran	Chuba Bridge, Isfahan, in the late afternoon
2000 02 14	Iran	Mashhad --- Inside the Holy Shrine complex
2000 02 16	Turkmenistan	A street in Ashgabat (Ashkhabad), Turkmenistan
2000 02 16	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat's new Turkish-built mosque (‡ la Blue Mosque in Istanbul)
2000 02 18	Turkmenistan	There's not much left in Merv
2000 02 18	Turkmenistan	Me on the battlements of Merv
2000 02 20	Uzbekistan	Detail from the Mir-i-Arab Medresseh, Bukhara
2000 02 20	Uzbekistan	Inside Bukhara's remaining synagogue
2000 02 21	Uzbekistan	The Char Minar gatehouse, Bukhara
2000 02 21	Uzbekistan	Entrance to the Emir's summer palace at Bukhara
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Woodcarvers in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	A mosque in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	A minaret in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Dome of a mosque in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Tiles and woodwork in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Tiles in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Ceiling in Khiva (1)
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Ceiling in Khiva (2)
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Ichon Kala, a fort in Khiva
2000 02 23	Uzbekistan	Inside the Tosh-Khouli Palace
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Women at Samarkand's fine market
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Ulugh Beg's medresseh (1420) in the Registan at Samarkand
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Sher Dor (Shir Dar) medresseh (1616) in the Registan at Samarkand
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Detail of exterior decoration of the Sher Dor medresseh, Samarkand
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Interior courtyard of the Sher Dor medresseh, Samarkand
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Tillah Kari medresseh (1618) in the Registan at Samarkand --- part of interior courtyard
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Tillah Kari medresseh, Samarkand --- detail
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Mosque of Bibi Khanum (1399) at Samarkand
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Minaret of the mosque of Bibi Khanum, Samarkand
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Samarkand --- the dome above Timur's tomb
2000 02 24	Uzbekistan	Samarkand --- newly-restored ceiling above Timur's tomb
2000 02 25	Uzbekistan	Timur in front of his summer palace (Ak Saray), Shakrisabz
2000 02 25	Uzbekistan	Detail from the restored tomb of Timur's eldest son Jehangir (1375), Shakrisabz
2000 02 27	Uzbekistan	Ballet dancers in Swan Lake, Tashkent
2000 03 01	Uzbekistan	Woodwork inside the Khan of Kokand's 19th-century palace
2000 03 09	Kyrgyzstan	A Russian church in Karakol
2000 03 09	Kyrgyzstan	A mosque in Karakol designed by a Chinese architect
2000 03 09	Kyrgyzstan	An old Russian woman walking home in Pristan' Przhevalsk
2000 03 14	Kazakstan	The entrance and dome of the Mausoleum of Qozha Ahmed Yasaui, Kazakstan's only famous old building!
2000 03 17	Kazakstan	Vakil Cathedral (1904)
2000 03 23	China	Detail from a Buddhist temple in Five Springs Park, Lanzhou
2000 03 23	China	Upturned eaves at the corner of a building in Lanzhou
2000 03 25	China	The Big Goose Pagoda (Da yan ta) in Xi'an --- a place to be snapped
2000 03 25	China	Detail of woodwork on the Big Goose Pagoda, Xi'an
2000 03 25	China	Near the South Gate of the city walls of Xi'an
2000 03 31	China	One of the thousands of Yungan Buddhas Ö.
2000 03 31	China	Ö and Nicky and Helen in front of the Buddha showing just how big he is
2000 04 02	China	Nicky in front of the temple of heaven (Tiantan)
2000 04 04	China	Empress Cixi's marble boat at the Summer Palace
2000 04 04	China	A temple in Tiantan Park
2000 04 21	China	Great Wall at Huang Hua ('yellow flower')
2000 04 23	China	Tianjin shop-fronts
2000 04 23	China	The prayer hall in Tianjin's mosque
2000 05 01	China	The large bell in Nanjing's Drum Tower
2000 05 04	China	The pagoda at Suzhou's Northern Temple, from its east
2000 05 04	China	Old rooves in Suzhou
2000 05 04	China	Houses by the river in the south of the city
2000 05 05	China	An old stone lion guarding the Precious Belt Bridge
2000 06 03	China	A dragon in the Nine Dragon Screen at Beihai Park
2000 06 03	China	A woman sponges symmetrical characters onto the paving stones
2000 06 03	China	In front of the Nine Dragon Screen
2000 06 16	China	Former German Governor's abode in Qingdao
2000 06 18	China	Qingdao street scene
2000 07	Australia	View across to Circular Quay on a fine day
2000 07 03	China	A buddhist temple in Songpan
2000 07 03	China	The roof of one of Songpan's mosques
2000 07 04	China	Schoolchildren outside one of Songpan's gates
2000 07 04	China	Songpan's main gatehouse in early morning sun
2000 07 09	China	In the grounds of the Tang (8th c. AD) poet Dufu's house
2000 07 09	China	At the Taoist temple of Qingyang gong
2000 07 10	China	The huge head of the world's biggest Buddha
2000 07 10	China	Buddha's hand
2000 07 10	China	Buddha from below
2000 07 13	China	A statue in the Pingdushan temple complex high above the Yangzi river
2000 07 13	China	Gaudi'esque rooves on Pingdushan, a devilish abode above the town of Fengdu
2000 07 13	China	Detail from a lintel at a temple on Pingdushan above the Yangzi River
2000 07 13	China	More highly embellished rooves and pagoda at Pingdushan
2000 08 26	Italy	Outside the church in Baveno on Lago Maggiore
2000 08 28	Italy	Milan Cathedral
2000 09 16	China	A restored section of the Great Wall at Mutianyu
2000 10 03	Mongolia	Woodwork at the last Boghd Khan's temples at the edge of Ulaan Baatar
2000 10 05	Mongolia	A decorated beam at the only remaining temple at the Manzhusir Khiid monastery
2000 10 05	Mongolia	View from a doorway inside Manzhusir Khiid
2000 10 06	Mongolia	Outside one of Gandan's temples
2000 10 06	Mongolia	The main temple at the Gandan monastery, under heavy skies
2000 10 07	Mongolia	I lunched at this roadside restaurant mobile cabin
2000 10 07	Mongolia	By early evening we had reached the Erdene Zuu monastery built using ruins of ancient Karakorum
2000 10 07	Mongolia	Evening sun on a factory in Kharkhorin
2000 10 07	Mongolia	Temples at Erdene Zuu
2000 10 07	Mongolia	Within the grounds of Erdene Zuu
2000 10 20	China	My class, on a school trip to the Forbidden City -- (Back) Eliko, Mei Ying, Yumi, Tami, me; (Front) Mako, Chen Ling Ling, Momo, Ayako
2000 11 01	China	Maho and Ayako at the South Heaven Gate of the 'Dai Miao' temple at Tai'an (near Taishan)
2000 11 02	China	Detail at the Confucius temple in Qufu
2000 11 04	China	Inside the temple at Laoshan, outside Qingdao
2000 11 11	China	Seventeen-arch bridge at the Summer Palace in Beijing
2000 11 11	China	Buildings in the Summer Palace in Beijing
2000 11 11	China	Temple on Longevity Hill in the Summer Palace
2000 11 11	China	The Beijing Opera as performed for tourists
2000 11 11	China	Tiananmen Square -- the Monument to the People's Heroes by night
2000 11 12	China	Eliko and Amanda Roberts on the Great Wall at Huang Hua Cheng
2001 01 20	China	A snowy lion in the Forbidden City
2001 01 21	China	In front of the Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) in winter -- Pascal, Alexa and Helen
2001 01 23	China	One of Harbin's former Russian churches -- St Sofya
2001 01 24	China	One of the hundreds of ice sculptures in Harbin's park
2001 01 26	China	Xi'an's Great Mosque --- in winter this time
2001 01 28	China	Carvings at the Longmen Caves near the ancient Chinese capital of Luoyang
2001 01 29	China	Pagodas at the Shaolin Temple
2001 01 30	China	An old building in Kaifeng, another ancient capital
2001 01 30	China	Detail inside the temple in Kaifeng
2001 01 31	China	Lanterns, stelae, and traditional eaves in the merchants' guildhall in Kaifeng
2001 02 07	China	One of the Labrang Monastery buildings
2001 02 07	China	Looking across lamasery buildings to snowy hillsides
2001 02 07	China	During the afternoon the sun shone onto the golden roofs
2001 02 07	China	Pilgrims gather at the painted yak butter lanterns to celebrate the end of the festival
2001 02 08	China	About to have tea in Zha Xi Sang Bo's friend's hut
2001 02 09	China	A painted wall inside the temple
2001 02 09	China	Ceiling inside the prayer hall at the monastery above Jianzha
2001 02 09	China	The prayer hall at the monastery above Jianzha
2001 02 10	China	Monastery buildings at Gumbum, another important Lamasery
2001 02 11	China	An ancient stage inside the fort at Jiayuguan
2001 02 11	China	Fortifications and smoking chimneys
2001 02 11	China	Three almost identical aligned towers inside Jiayuguan fort
2001 02 11	China	A Jiayuguan tower with hills in the background
2001 02 11	China	View of a tower from below the 'back' gate
2001 02 13	China	Flying figures in a Western Wei dynasty cave at Mogao
2001 02 13	China	A Bodhisattva from an early Tang dynasty cave at Mogao
2001 02 13	China	Meditating Bodhisattva in an early Tang cave at Mogao
2001 02 13	China	Detail of head portion of the Buddha's Parinirvana in a mid-Tang cave at Mogao
2001 02 13	China	Apsaras and lotus flowers on the ceiling of an early Tang cave at Mogao
2001 02 13	China	Attendant Bodhisattva from an early Tang cave at Mogao
2001 02 15	China	Half a house: the other half having been lost to the building of a new ring road
2001 02 15	China	A restored wall panel inside the mosque at the Tombs of the Muslim Kings of Hami
2001 02 15	China	A less-recently restored section inside the Hami Muslim kings' mosque
2001 02 15	China	The Hami royal mausoleum
2001 02 15	China	Minaret at the mosque at the Tomb of Hami's Muslim kings
2001 02 15	China	Detail on the wall of the mosque at the tomb of the Muslim kings
2001 02 16	China	Turpan's Khiva-esque minaret
2001 02 20	China	The Subash Buddhist monastery ruins near Kuqa, in early sunlight
2001 02 20	China	At the ruins - I was just hoping that I was in the frame, and not intentionally mimicking the eroded building!
2001 02 20	China	Kizil Kara beacon tower, near Kuqa
2001 02 20	China	Another view of the Subash fourth century ruins
2001 02 23	China	A typical entrance to a house in the thoroughly Uighur town of Karghalik
2001 02 23	China	Typical Uighur architecture
2001 02 24	China	A tiled tower on Kashgar's most famous mausoleum
2001 02 27	China	My last morning in ‹r¸mqi was the clearest I have ever seen: view of Hong Shan
2001 04 13	Australia	St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney in bright autumn sunshine -- Good Friday 2001
2001 07 10	Turkey	Old houses seen from Yedi Kapi
2001 07 10	Turkey	Aya Sofya in July
2001 07 25	Kyrgyzstan	Boz ‹y (yurta; ger) restaurant with trousers and mountains
2001 08 01	Turkey	Greek text at Aya Sofya
2001 08 01	Turkey	Mosaic at Aya Sofya
2001 08 02	Turkey	Topkapi tiles
2001 09 01	England	The Wheel
2001 09 18	Turkey	17th century Iznik tiles on the wall of the Sultaniye Cami
2001 09 18	Turkey	More Turkish tiles - this time on an octagonal pillar
2001 09 19	Thailand	Well-contrasting tiles on the wall of the XXX temple
2001 09 19	Thailand	Curved and brightly coloured tiles on the XXX temple wall
2001 09 19	Thailand	A mother of pearl inlaid door to the prayer hall of the XXX temple
2001 09 19	Thailand	Detail from the XXX temple wall
2001 09 20	Thailand	Finely painted wall running beneath the huge reclining buddha
2001 09 20	Thailand	The top of a Wat Po stupa
2001 09 20	Thailand	Bright sunlight before the daily downpour at Wat Po
2001 09 20	Thailand	A highly decorated stupa in the Emerald Buddha royal temple complex
2001 09 20	Thailand	One of the many gaudy stupas in the Emerald Buddha royal temple complex
2001 09 20	Thailand	An elephant in the Emerald Buddha royal temple complex
2001 09 20	Thailand	Buddha's huge upper torso midst renovation by tiny workers at Wat Po
2002 02 13	Australia	St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, Ash Wednesday 2002
2002 03 27	China	My favourite roof in the Forbidden City
2002 03 27	China	View of the Forbidden City from Jingshan, to its north
2002 04 05	Mongolia	Mongolia's friendship with Russia: mosaic from the monument on Zaisan Hill
2002 05 07	Mongolia	A typical roadside restpoint row of restaurant gers - one of many wheel changes
2002 05 07	Mongolia	We forded the spring river while this new bridge was being built
2002 05 07	Mongolia	Mongolia's space - and a typical 'highway bridge'
2002 05 26	Mongolia	Rocket dustbin
2002 06 13	Mongolia	Zaya and Zorigt outside the reindeer herders' home
2002 06 13	Mongolia	The reindeer herders' tent on Huvsgul shore
2002 08 10	Mongolia	View across my friends' plot: their horse-tying frame, and building (former social club)
2002 08 12	Mongolia	Symbolic eaves at Amarbayasgalant
2002 08 12	Mongolia	One of Amarbayasgalant's ceilings
2002 08 12	Mongolia	A finely painted wall-hanging at Amarbayasgalant
2002 08 12	Mongolia	The main prayer hall at Amarbayasgalant
2002 08 12	Mongolia	Amarbayasgalant Monastery - in colour
2002 08 16	Mongolia	Ceiling at the Bogd Khan's palace
2002 12 08	Syria	Gate and wall in Ezra'a
2002 12 08	Syria	The road to Ezra'a's 516 AD Church of Mar Georgios
2003 02 15	Syria	The bottom of the camel mosaic, which I first photographed in December 1999
2003 02 17	Syria	Old houses and taxis
2003 02 17	Syria	A restored ceiling inside the citadel
2003 02 17	Syria	The Italianate Latin Rite cathedral in Aleppo
2003 02 17	Syria	The imposing fortified tower above the entrance to the citadel
2003 02 18	Syria	It started to snow as we approached the ruins of the shrine to St Simeon Stylites, and was fierce by the time we arrived
2003 02 18	Syria	St Simeon's stump - in mist and snow
2003 02 18	Syria	The basilica built round St Simeon's pillar is still impressive, half ruined, in a snowstorm
2003 02 18	Syria	Dad loved the waving palms and the curved designs on the stonework at the Basilica
2003 02 18	Syria	The ground of the ruined basilica is littered with interesting stones
2003 02 18	Syria	View towards Turkey from another ruined Byzantine church
2003 02 18	Syria	Helen on a well-preserved Roman road in NW Syria
2003 02 19	Syria	Rusted satellite dish and sunny balconies
2003 02 19	Syria	This is now a medreseh courtyard - but was an ancient Byzantine cathedral
2003 02 19	Syria	More waving palm fronds, this time in the cathedral-turned-medreseh
2003 02 19	Syria	Decorative porch ceiling in one of Aleppo's fine houses
2003 02 19	Syria	Bright sun set off the fine stonework at the old fine house
2003 02 19	Syria	Aleppo's principal mosque is under renovation, as we were permitted to see
2003 02 21	Syria	The brilliant mosaic inside the Umayyad mosque is stunning
2003 02 21	Syria	Beauty for the glory of God
2003 02 26	Syria	More floods, more snow on Sergeant Street
2003 03 04	Syria	Gravestones of intricate design and engraving
2003 03 04	Syria	Minaret of the Umayyad Mosque
2003 03 04	Syria	Every time I go there I am awed by the gloriousness
2003 03 05	Syria	Can you see NNL and Youseff exclaiming?
2003 03 07	Syria	Tiles at a small prayer hall at the Tekkiye Mosque complex
2003 03 07	Syria	More fine tiles at the Tekkiye Mosque
2003 03 20	Syria	Hejaz railway station in Damascus
2003 04 12	Thailand	Pretty tiles in the wall at one of Bangkok's Chinese temples
2003 04 12	Thailand	Decorative altar at one of the Chinese temples near Giang's home
2003 04 13	Thailand	At Wat Arun, porcelain is embedded in walls Ö
2003 04 13	Thailand	... and in the pillars at the entrances to the temple halls
2003 04 13	Thailand	Apples and bowls embedded in the wall at Wat Arun - Temple of Dawn
2003 04 14	Thailand	The view from Khao Wang in Petchaburi was blissful
2003 05 02	England	Byland abbey
2003 05 02	England	Asel and Richard at Byland abbey
2003 07 29	Syria	The glorious mosaics at the Umayyad Mosque
2003 07 29	Syria	July sunlight at the Umayyad Mosque
2003 07 29	Syria	A decorative ceiling at the Umayyad Mosque

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