1997
Middle East Photos
124 photos from this region
Byzantine mosaic in Istanbul's Aya Sofia
Broans and the "Fairy Chimneys" of Capadocchia
Shopping is part of the Turkish experience; don't forget to bargain!
Why did the...?
Rolling stone doors?!
Turkey: a country of modern infrastructure
Turkey: a country of modern infrastructure
Fred getting in touch with his roots?!
In the underground city of harabsubalumach
Wishing we had brought our bikes!
Inside an Ottoman Motel 6
Konya's MevlanaMuseum, home of the whirling
dervishes
Dervish glam attack
Mars imagines what it would be like to be immortalized in stone
Library at Ephesus
Stone detailing at Ephesus
Aphrodisias' Amphitheater, more than JAPOR!
Aphrodisias' Amphitheater, more than JAPOR!
Circumcision celebration
Fred tries out an ancient crapper in Ephesus
In the house of the BVM
No one is an asshole in Assos
Gallery - From both sides of Nicosia's Green line
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Siegfried und Roy taking a pause at the amphitheater of Kourion
Siegfried und Roy taking a pause at the amphitheater of Kourion
Serene cycling in the Troodos mountains
On the road to Nicosia
Remembering Ataturk
Remembering Ataturk
JAPOR
Non-settlement West Bank housing
Andy Arafat
From the walls of the Old City
Jerusalem welcome mat
Orthodox ornamentation
Entering Palestinian administrated Jericho
Entering Palestinian administrated Jericho
Taxi to Jerusalem
Western Wail
Damascus Gate
Holey city?
the Dead Zone
Zealots in training...
What? No guns...
Muslims streaming in for Friday festivities...
Trinket shopping nuns and...
...That's better: Packing Heat at the Wailing
Wall
...That's better: Packing Heat at the Wailing
Wall
...and stampeding out
... stone kissing greek goslings
"... and bind them for frontlets between your eyes"
A cross to bear on Via Dolorosa
Honoring the BVM
Kissin' the Jeeezus Stone?
In full regalia at the Wailing Wall
In full regalia at the Wailing Wall
In front of the BVM's birthplace
Inside the Holy Sepulcher
Foot washing at the Dome of the Rock
With Declan on the Nissos Kypros
With Declan on the Nissos Kypros
Jerome, our man from Galilee
Jerome, our man from Galilee
Entrance denied at St. Peter's pad
Entrance denied at St. Peter's pad
West Bank welcome
Rodent models his fall attire
Our host in Ein Yehav, Ehud
Elusive Aqaba
Triplogue - Israel and the West Bank (also see: Gallery , "Zealot City" Gallery , "Jerusalem Syndrome" Gallery )
Akbar... (not Siegfried)
Street scene in Kerak
... more preparations. This exercise is called the "death slide"
From inside Petra's Treasury
Taking a breather with our India-bound friends
View from the monastery
yet another view of the monastery
British commandos preparing for the war that
wasn't (yet?!)
British commandos preparing for the war that
wasn't (yet?!)
Bringing the herd home
Petra's hilltop "monastery"
Mugging at the monastery
Petra cliffside
Wadi Rum's principal inhabitants
Dead Sea from Jordanian side
Dead Sea from Jordanian side
Dead Sea from Jordanian side
Dead Sea from Jordanian side
Sunset in Petra
Sunset in Petra
Bedouin housing project in Wadi Rum
Bedouin housing project in Wadi Rum
yep, the same camel...
do you get the picture, this is Andy's favorite subject matter?
Sherif leads the Basata-ites through Egypt
Ready to hit the road?!
Mohammed and Ingrid of Dahab
Pierre claps for Basata
Catherine bids us adieu (the first time)
Most of the road hazards were four-legged
Lindsay meets her camel
Half-way up one of the meanest hills of the
trip
Hutside sunrise
Matthieu, contemplating a shower
Pharoh's island on the road to Basata
Pharoh's island on the road to Basata
Lindsay, Marianne and their mounts
Lindsay, Marianne and their mounts
End of the line
Hornemann sparks up
Route and Schedule - Egypt