Forts, Tombs and Battlements

   
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1999 10 28 Turkey Sinop -- Fortifications and the Black Sea
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1999 11 01 Turkey Erzurum from its castle
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1999 11 02 Turkey At Hasankale -- Pasinler below
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1999 11 02 Turkey Pasinler/Hasankale -- Yener and Selvi
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1999 11 05 Turkey The 'revolving' tomb, Kayseri
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1999 11 12 Turkey Bursa -- details of tiles in a tomb
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1999 11 18 Turkey Having found the acropolis at Termessos
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1999 11 25 Syria Entrance to Aleppo's citadel
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1999 11 29 Jordan Petra's 'Monastery' tomb
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1999 12 10 Syria Inside the Crac des Chevaliers
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1999 12 11 Syria Qala'at al-Marqab
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1999 12 15 Lebanon Entry ticket to the Crusader castle at Byblos
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1999 12 21 Syria Bosra's theatre-citadel
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2000 01 28 Iran The tomb of the poet Hafiz in Shiraz
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2000 01 30 Iran Early-flowering thornbush at Qala-ye-Dokhtar (a 3rd-c. Sassanian fortress near Firuzabad)
CLICK FOR FULLSIZE IMAGE 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
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2000 01 30 Iran Chantal on the edge at the fortress of Firuzabad
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2000 01 30 Iran A tomb at Naqsh-e-Rostam, near Pasargadae
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2000 01 30 Iran The tomb of Cyrus the Great (died 512 BC)
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2000 01 31 Iran Arg (fortress) of Shiraz
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2000 02 01 Iran The Arg-e Bam
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2000 02 01 Iran An entrance to Bam's castle
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2000 02 01 Iran View of Bam's castle and ruined town
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2000 02 01 Iran Arg-e Bam
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2000 02 18 Turkmenistan There's not much left in Merv
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2000 02 18 Turkmenistan Me on the battlements of Merv
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2000 02 20 Uzbekistan Fardows & Farhod outside Bukhara's 'Ark' (citadel)
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2000 02 21 Uzbekistan The Char Minar gatehouse, Bukhara
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2000 02 23 Uzbekistan Ichon Kala, a fort in Khiva
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2000 04 21 China Great Wall at Huang Hua ('yellow flower')
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2000 04 21 China On the Great Wall in windy sunshine
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2000 09 16 China Landscape at Mutianyu
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2000 09 16 China A restored section of the Great Wall at Mutianyu
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2001 01 21 China Alexa and Pascal at Simatai
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2001 01 21 China The Great Wall at Simatai
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2001 01 21 China Me on the Wall at Simatai
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2001 01 21 China The Great Wall in winter
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2001 01 21 China Two souvenir-sellers who climbed the Wall with Pascal and me
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2001 02 11 China An ancient stage inside the fort at Jiayuguan
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2001 02 11 China Fortifications and smoking chimneys
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2001 02 11 China Three almost identical aligned towers inside Jiayuguan fort
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2001 02 11 China A Jiayuguan tower with hills in the background
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2001 02 11 China View of a tower from below the 'back' gate
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2001 02 20 China Kizil Kara beacon tower, near Kuqa
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2001 04 18 Australia Memorial at John Flynn's grave near Alice Springs
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2001 08 20 Scotland Richard at Edinburgh Castle
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2001 08 20 Scotland Asel in Edinburgh
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2003 02 15 Syria Mum and Elizabeth are smiling at Bosra despite the horrific wet
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2003 02 17 Syria I found where Ibrahim had written our names together in chalk
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2003 02 17 Syria A restored ceiling inside the citadel
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2003 02 17 Syria Aleppo citadel from the street
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2003 02 17 Syria The imposing fortified tower above the entrance to the citadel
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2003 03 04 Syria Gravestones of intricate design and engraving
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2003 03 05 Syria My third visit to Bosra was in glorious sunshine
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2003 03 05 Syria Can you see NNL and Youseff exclaiming?
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2003 03 06 Syria Nanette, moat, and an insurmountable defence at Crac des Chevaliers
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2003 03 06 Syria I can never resist taking a shot through an open window
CLICK FOR FULLSIZE IMAGE I can never resist taking a shot through an open window
 
2003 03 06 Syria View across cloudy central Syria, from the Crac des Chevaliers
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2003 03 06 Syria Being severely buffeted at the top of Qalat Al-Hosn
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2003 03 06 Syria Nanette inside the Qala (Crac)
CLICK FOR FULLSIZE IMAGE Nanette inside the Qala (Crac)
 
2003 03 06 Syria Looking east from the ramparts towards the Anti-Lebanon range
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