Jordan, Iraq and Iran

The Siq Gorge in Petra, Jordan is the entrance to The rose red city, half as old as time. This is a narrow chasm, very dangerous in times of flooding - many people have lost their lives here through flash storms.

The great black goathair tents of Arab Bedouin tribes in the distance in Jordan, not far from Petra.

Saleem Mutlaq Al Hajjaia, a young man who told me he lived in the tents in the previous picture, who was at that time, an apprentice motor mechanic, sitting outside a roadside cafe.

A minaret of a Baghdad mosque from outside the walls of the city. Baghdad was suffering from the heat of the Khamsin, a baking wind searing everything at around 45C, a heat which is not conducive to going and inspecting Babylon, or the Arch of Ctesiphon.

The ruins at Persopolis in the cooler climate of Iran.

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