All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘islam’
Samarkand – part 1: the Registan – Uzbekistan
When it comes to legendary places – like Timbuktu, Shangri-la or Xanadu – Samarkand ranks right up there: the mysterious Silk Road city of the great, medieval Islamic warrior and empire builder, Timur …
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Faces of West Africa
Portrait collection from 6 months of solo overland travels across West Africa: faces of Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Mauritania, Gambia, Benin, Burkina Fuso …
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I deserve a drink – Iran / Armenia
I deserve a drink … been a month without alcohol, as I traveled across Iran.
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Kang village – Iran
The old stepped village of Kang is about 30 km from Mashhad, within and climbing above a scenic river valley.
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Islamic eyes – Yemen
Travel Portraits: Islamic eyes – Yemen
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Weekend in Samarra – Iraq
This mosque – or at least the visible Al-Malwiyah spiral minaret, or tower where the calls to pray are sang from – dates back to when the Islamic world was way-more advanced than Europe, around 960 A.D.
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Boys pray on the street – Yemen
Boys pray on the street – Sana’a, Yemen.
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Way of the Sufi – Multan, Pakistan
Sufism is the wondrous, mystical sect within Islam – often like wandering gurus and often being very unconventional; here in [...]
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