Photo by namac, 6 June 2008
This mosque is located right across the street from the Shaikh Zayed Mosque.
Photo by namac, 6 June 2008
Sheikh Zayed Mosque is the third largest mosque in the world, located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Photo by namac, 6 June 2008
Sheikh Zayed Mosque is the third largest mosque in the world, located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Photo by Anne Beach, 3 June 2008
Photo by Anne Beach, 3 June 2008
Notice her ears.
Photo Essay by Anne Beach, 4 June 2008
An intergenerational delight is the bottle feeding of the baby elephants at noon each day. Spectators speak dozens of languages, but the laughter is universal.
Photo by Anne Beach, 4 June 2008
The Sheldrick Baby Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi. These babies are bottle fed after poachers slaughter the mothers for their tusks and leave the babies to die.
Photo by Anne Beach, 2 June 2008
Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 26 May 2008
During the second Gulf War in Iraq the US army released a playing card deck with the 52 most wanted Iraqi government and military leaders.
In Xi'an, a Chinese version of the card deck is for sale next to a Mao Zedong alarm clock and a peoples Republic wristwatch.
Photo by Gijs Bekenkamp, 26 May 2008
There is one souvenir you can collect in literally every country on this planet.
In my collection amongst others:
the Romanian Leu, the Brasilian Real, the Chinese Yuan, the Kazakhstani Tenge the Indonesian Rupiah and the Central African CFA franc.