Sunrays touch bags of henna powder stored in an ancient henna mill. Adrenaline rush

Sunrays touch bags of henna powder stored in an ancient henna mill. Adrenaline rushSunrays touch bags of henna powder stored in an ancient henna mill. Yazd, Yazd Province, Islamic Republic of Iran.

A herd of African Buffalo grazing on a grass floodplain

A fat-bellied Spotted Hyena drinking from a waterhole after feeding on a Blue Wildebeest carcass

In the pre-dawn light a camel jockey prepares for an endurance race

A pair of green lemons hanging from a branch in a garden

The Persian Empire has been one of humanity's great civilisations surviving for more than 2500 years

Bracelet honey myrtles

A bronze statue of a King riding a stallion

one for the man and one for the woman

Waves stir sea grass emerging from a sandy beach

The long roots of a Ficus tree reaching down from a cliff top to the soil far below

A weary western traveler soaks in a farm timber bath heated with roasted river rocks

A scuba diver descends from a boat into the deep with a video camera