Keen to view all the delights of Sri Lanka’s “Cultural Triangle” we headed out to the magnificent “Lion Rock” or “Sigiriya”. Here one climbs a rickety stair to view rock paintings of several maidens.
In the late afternoon we reach the Ombos temple, or the Crocodile Temple, on the Nile’s east bank – that of “life”. This is a really beautiful temple with the frieze of the Pharaoh being anointed by Gods with the life giving waters of the Nile. Around…
Located in the small Cotswold village of Winchcombe near the city of Cheltenham in south west England, Sudeley Castle was built on the site of an earlier castle by Ralph Boteler, Baron Sudeley, using money he had ‘earned’ fighting in Europe in the Hundred Years’ War
In the corner of a small lake in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka I came across this delightful 3rd Century BC rock carving of a Smiling Elephant. It is so wonderfully ‘cartoonish’ that it set me thinking about the sculptor who clearly had a great sense of humor.
You are back on your vessel, so settle yourself down on the upper deck and just watch Egypt’s panorama unfold before your eyes! Endlessly on both banks daily life shows itself to you and seems much as it has been over the past hundreds…
It is pretty much what most of us will see on a daily basis if we are travelling in a warm climate. It is the life saver at the end of a hot dusty day our on the road.
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…
I am adding another couple of ancient pics from 1980. The first, one of the many typical “Kasbahs” (fortified dwellings) in Morocco. These can still be widely seen today and are…
Keen to view all the delights of Sri Lanka’s “Cultural Triangle” we headed out to the magnificent “Lion Rock” or “Sigiriya”. Here one climbs a rickety stair to view rock paintings of several maidens.
In the late afternoon we reach the Ombos temple, or the Crocodile Temple, on the Nile’s east bank – that of “life”. This is a really beautiful temple with the frieze of the Pharaoh being anointed by Gods with the life giving waters of the Nile. Around…
Located in the small Cotswold village of Winchcombe near the city of Cheltenham in south west England, Sudeley Castle was built on the site of an earlier castle by Ralph Boteler, Baron Sudeley, using money he had ‘earned’ fighting in Europe in the Hundred Years’ War
In the corner of a small lake in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka I came across this delightful 3rd Century BC rock carving of a Smiling Elephant. It is so wonderfully ‘cartoonish’ that it set me thinking about the sculptor who clearly had a great sense of humor.
You are back on your vessel, so settle yourself down on the upper deck and just watch Egypt’s panorama unfold before your eyes! Endlessly on both banks daily life shows itself to you and seems much as it has been over the past hundreds…
It is pretty much what most of us will see on a daily basis if we are travelling in a warm climate. It is the life saver at the end of a hot dusty day our on the road.
Poor Egypt gets some bad press at the moment and in the process their tourist numbers have fallen dramatically and that is understandable, however, in cities like Luxor tourism provides employment in one way or another for some 85% of the…
I am adding another couple of ancient pics from 1980. The first, one of the many typical “Kasbahs” (fortified dwellings) in Morocco. These can still be widely seen today and are…