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  • Asian and European tourists in front of a pagoda in Vietnam;.   The Asians are grouped for a photograph while the Europeans wander individually around the area.  An example of comparative social behavior of Orientals and Caucasians.
    Tourists_Vietnam_VTN200602--0490.jpg
  • Lecturer and guide Dr. Trevor Marchand, of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, [ SOAS ] explaining the history and architecture of the mud brick village of Al Hamra, Oman, to a group of tourists.   Most listen attentively; one woman focuses her camera elsewhere.  Ruined mud brick home at left, repaired mud brick multi story building in the background.
    tourists-Omani-village-OMN200801--36...jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. Six or seven tourists, seen from the chest up, waiting out a rainstorm in the entrance or narthex.  People nearer the door look up at the sky.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-017.jpg
  • Athens Acropolis Propylaea with scaffolding preparatory to restoration program in 1978.  One workman stands on a platform, leaning against a column, watching as a line of tourists, mostly women, exits the Acropolis site through the Propylaea columns.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-32.jpg
  • A pair of tourists in shorts and walking shoes resting on the wall of a house in Korcula.  Their pet dog, on a leash, rests next to them.
    Korcula-Croatia-HRV200606-189.jpg
  • Split, Diocletian's Palace, groups of tourists standing about, seated on the steps. View of the peristyle looking toward the entrance to the palace residential area.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-112.jpg
  • Even in January, Florence was very crowded.  This view is from the Palazzo Vecchio along the Uffizi Gallery.  The crowd is a mix of tourists and residents, apparently.  Note the live "sculpture" on the left.  We'll see him again later.  Banner showing a modern copy of a Renaissance portrait of a large-nosed man (Cosimo dei Medici?) hangs at right in advertisement for some feature on offer at the time.
    Crowds_outside_Uffizi_ITA201012-223.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. West end exterior from plaza in a rainstorm.  Tourists huddled around the entrance.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-026.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence.  View across the cathedral square in a rainstorm as tourists scurry for cover
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-024.jpg
  • Athens Acropolis Propylaea with scaffolding preparatory to restoration program in 1978.  One workman stands on a platform, leaning against a column, watching as a line of tourists, mostly women, exits the Acropolis site through the Propylaea columns.
    GRC197804-32m.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon, four faced towers of the temple.  The giant heads, each facing a cardinal compass point as protection, may be portraits of Jayavarman VII, the king who built the temple XII century. A couple of tourists, one wearing a kaffiyeh, walk by the doorway in front of the sculptured tower.
    Angkor_Thom-Bayon -visitors-KHM20060...jpg
  • View along the Parthenon side colonnade or perstyle showing the slight convex curve that gives visual life to the structure.  Tufts of grass in the interstices of the fitted blocks.   Heads of four tourists visible over the edge of the platform.  City of Athens and far away landscape just visible.
    GRC197804-10m.jpg
  • Four singers and players, one woman and three men, play on Renaissance replica instruments, wearing Renaissance era clothing.  They are seen from the back, in the shadow of a colonnade, while tourists in shorts watch and listen in the sunshine beyond.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-372.jpg
  • Showing Nike temple, Herod theatre, and Parthenon, above surrounding wall and greenery.  Group of tourists emerge from trees below.
    GRC202204-0106m.jpg
  • Oman, mud brick village of Al Hamra, largely abandoned.  Though some structures still endure, no restoration seems to be attempted.  Archaeological Tours lecturer Trevor archand speaks to a listening group, while one of the tourists focuses her camera.
    OMN200801--3693.jpg
  • An Acropolis restoration supervisor checks verticality of a Propylon support with a plumb bob, while a couple of tourists watch from below.
    Athens_Acropolis_GRC197808-08.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : partial view of two adjoining temples, side by side, so that all their columns seem to cluster together.  A group of tourists partly visible below one of the temple platforms.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-097.jpg
  • Outside the Lion Gate in Durbar Square, stone statue of a ferocious lion; behind it and to the left, a stone carving of Ugrachandi, the god Shiva's consort in her fearful manifestation.  Two women tourists examine the latter closely, one pointing to a feature; young Nepal man in red pants lounges against the lion statue as though waiting for them.
    NPL200110-2-7.jpg
  • Nyatapola Temple approach stairway and statues, looking up from the bottom.  View underneath the five pagoda roofs shows some of the carved wooden struts underneath them.  A few tourists just partly visible behind the elephant statue on its pedestal.
    NPL200110-13-11sc.jpg
  • Aborigines teaching American tourists their war dance
    AUS201804--6874.tif
  • Oman, village of Samad, home of traditional pit weavers. Emmet Brennan buys a piece of fabric from the weavers' representative (sunglasses on his head) as tourists and villagers look on.
    OMN200801--3805.jpg
  • Two young women tourists study their guidebooks while above them a workman stands on a scaffold platform, smoking a cigarette, while talking with another workman installing the scaffolding, his bent arm just visible.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-27.jpg
  • View along the Parthenon side colonnade or perstyle showing the slight convex curve that gives visual life to the structure.  Tufts of grass in the interstices of the fitted blocks.   Heads of four tourists visible over the edge of the platform.  City of Athens and far away landscape just visible.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-10.jpg
  • Changu Narayan temple precinct; a World Heritage site, Kathmandu valley.  Temple dedicated to Chakra Narayan, traditionally built in 5th century and so the oldest temple in Kathmandu valley. Scattering of tourists study the structure.  The area is crowded with statuary and other sacred structures as well as living quarters of the caretakers.
    ChanguNarayan_NPL200110-06-4.jpg
  • General view of Bhaktapur, one of the seven Monument Zones in the Kathmandu Valley designated by UNESCO, repaired and restored.  Vendor of sweets in the foreground with his cart; visitors and tourists dotted about the pavement; Nayatapola temple across the square.
    Bhaktapur-NPL200110-13-01.jpg
  • Group of American tourists lunch at a fish restaurant on the harbor at Ayvalik.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-01-16sc.jpg
  • Small crowd of tourists huddle in the rain around their guide in the Piazza San Pietro, Rome.  A few other people scattered in the distance.  St. Peter's Basilica facade and dome beyond.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1325.jpg
  • Facade of the university College of Ildefonso at Alcala de Henares.  Flourish of red roses in the foreground, and a clutch of tourists lined up admiring the building's Plateresque ornamental flourishes around its doors and windows.  The building dates from the turn of the 15th-16th century.  The university, founded by Ximenez de Cisneros, opened in 1508 as the College of St. Ildefonso.  The facade was designed by Rodrigo Gil de Hontanon in the style known as plateresque.
    Alcala_Henares_university_ESP2201210...jpg
  • Colonnade of the Quwwat ul Islam mosque in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Delhi.  Early Islamic structure in India uses rich Hindu ornament on the columns of the prayer hall.  Tourists linger in the shadow of a column, only partly visible.
    Delhi_Mehrauli_IND200111-1-7.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the ground gestures to another on scaffolding by the Propylon.  Tourists wander about, some picking their way toward the Propylon.  Parthenon itself partially visible on the left.
    Athens_Acropolis_GRC197804-2-10.jpg
  • Plaza of Cisterns in the Alhambra, empty except for three people: woman seeming to be waiting for someone, a young woman seated and reading, and a man in a straw hat using his mobile telephone.  Sunlit cobbled ramp and walls, punctuated by cypress trees.  Elsewhere there were floods of European and Japanese tourists
    Alhambra_Plaza-Cisterns-ESP201210--0...jpg
  • Three tourists with their cameras at the ready below a towering cliff.
    NZL201804--7114.tif
  • The Alhambra as fortress, seen from the Albaicin section of Grenada.  Powerful walls, square tower, and a scattering of tourists along the wall. Three cypresses and a cluster of other greenery in the foreground.
    Alhambra_fortress_ESP201210--0236.jpg
  • Avenue of cypresses in the garden of the Generalife, Grenada.  A few tourists stroll along the path.  Sharp sunlight and shadows.
    Alhambra_Generalife_cypresses-ESP201...jpg
  • Three tourists (one on a mobile phone) near the base of the arch of Septimus Severus which bears a relief of three figures (captured slaves)
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0521.jpg
  • Courtyard of the Medici Palace, with transparent red gauze cloth banner hanging between two columns.  Tourist couple standing nearby looking around them.  The banner shows a collage of a photograph and a Ghirlandaio fresco with a quotation from Gabriele di Annunzio.
    Medici-Palace-courtyard-Florence-ITA...jpg
  • Angkor: Prasat Kravan (10th century): east facade in the morning sun, seen from the altar opposite.  Shadows of tree branches stretch across the grass towards the temple. Tourist figure visible in center and left hand doorways.  A small charming Hindu - influenced temple in the Angkor complex.
    Angkor_temple-Prasat_Kravan_KHM20060...jpg
  • Facade of the Generalife palace at the Alhambra, Granada, reflected in the pool in the foreground.  Four tourist figures at in the distance, goldfish swimming in the foreground.
    Generalife palace ESP201210--0281.jpg
  • Built mid-13th century (1256-62) as the seat of city government; later the headquarters of the Chief of Police, prison, and police barracks.  In 1865 opened as a national museum.  A tourist couple lean against the wellhead studying their guidebook.
    Bargello-courtyard-ITA201012-098.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Barbara Barletta lecturing to a tour group seated in the theater, carved from living rock of the hillside.
    Tourists-Segesta-theater-ITA200610-1...jpg
  • Thien Mu (Huong ) Pagoda, on the Perfume River near Hue, Vietnam: a group of Korean men on a business trip are pleased to photograph two elegant Vietnamese hostesses who pose for them wearing silk ao dais.
    Korean-tourists-Vietnam_VTN200602-15...jpg
  • In the entrance to the Merida amphitheater.
    American-tourists-Spanish-guide-ESP2...jpg
  • A man and woman walking along the Parthenon platform between columns and bypassing the scaffolding beginning to be erected preparatory to the Acropolis restoration program that began in 1978.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-22.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Barbara Barletta lecturing to a tour group seated in the theater, carved from living rock of the hillside.
    ITA200610-193.jpg
  • View of part of Old Town Square and City Hall with the restored astronomical clock below which a small crowd is gathering.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Astronomical_Clock for a detailed history and technical survey of the clock, its mechanisms, and its sculptures.
    Prague-astronomical-clock-CZR200901-...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: figures of people leaving the temple are reflected in the moat as they cross it.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_west_KHM200602_3...jpg
  • Oman, entrance and views of the ruins at Ubar (also known as Shisr or Wubar).  Remains of stone built walls, with sinkhole below into which the ancient site fell. Though the Quran story describes a wealthy city which vanished, this site was most probably a walled caravanserai around a water hole.  About 30 campsites have been identified in the vicinity.  Site identified by Wilfred Thesiger and Nicholas Clapp in 1990, using satellite photographs.
    Omani_people_OMN200801--4074.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum, man in a khaki colored raincoat, balding, gray hair, seen from behind studying the statue.  He interacts with it.
    Laocoon viewer ITA200901--0292a.jpg
  • Angkor Wat, visitors exiting along the causeway toward the west gate or gopura, visible in the distance.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_west_KHM200602-3...jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum, man in a khaki colored raincoat, balding, gray hair, seen from behind studying the statue.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0292.jpg
  • HRV200606-017.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, west gate from the outside.  A hiker with backpack looks back toward the city.  Two other figures nearer the gate.  Gigantic heads on top of the gate.
    Angkor_Thom_gopura_visitor_KHM200602...jpg
  • Harappan brick wall at Lothal, showing the side of a building with drains at the bottom of the wall.  Harappan bricks are larger than modern bricks, and of varying sizes.
    Harappan_Lothal_IND201301--0844.jpg
  • Complutum_ESP201210--4027.jpg
  • On this trip, we were driven many miles, well supplied with oranges, bananas, bottles of drinking water, and a trash bag at each seat.
    tourist-bus-interior-IND201301--0532.jpg
  • Ancient Roman mosaic panel with fish, eels, and three fishermen in a rowboat using a net.
    Complutum_mosaic_ESP2201210--4022.jpg
  • Lothal Harappan city mound, partly excavated, seen from across its water tank.
    Harrappan_Lothal_IND201301--0833ed.jpg
  • Standing portrait of a Spanish tour leader on his cell phone organizing the next step of the day's scheduled tour.
    Spanish-man-mobile-full-length-ESP22...jpg
  • Demonstration of an aborigine food
    AUS201804--3.tif
  • Door to the College of San Ildefonso at Alcala Henares, seen partly closed, with another doorway beyond and a group of people outside.
    16th century door_ESP2201210--4063.jpg
  • Taj Mahal from the east at sunrise, with a row of 7 visitors seated in the foreground shadow. One minaret visible at the left..
    Taj_Mahal_sunrise_IND200111-3-25a.jpg
  • Stonehenge from the heel stone.  A line of visitors dotted along the skyline.
    Stonehenge_view_heel_stone_ENG198707...jpg
  • View across Durbar Square toward the countryside beyond from the upper platform of the Nyatapola Temple.  The square is empty except for a scattering of a dozen or so people walking about.
    NPL200110-13-12sc.jpg
  • Photographer's shadow, camel's head and neck, and camel handler holding its lead, in early morning sunshine.  Morocco, near Erg Chelebi.
    MOR200411_0654.jpg
  • View from the elephant's back up the approach ramp leading to the hilltop fort.  Head of the mahout in left foreground; two other elephants approach down the ramp, the lead mahout laughing at the camera.  Other elephants bearing sightseers ahead.
    IND200111-06-21ptg.jpg
  • Tikal: view of the forest from the top of the Temple I or II.  Three sightseers seated on the top step just outside the doorway opening.  Another temple shows its top above the treetops in the distance.  Cloudy sky.
    GUA199203-3-9.jpg
  • Bhaktapur, World Heritage city, Golden Gate (actually brass), built 1785 as entrance to royal palace.  Group of 8-12 men and women cluster around the gate to enter the palace within..
    Bhaktapur-Golden-Gate-NPL200110-2-3.jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Four or five well dressed ladies in the foreground, male escorts behind.
    Four-Renaissance-ladies-fresco-ITA20...jpg
  • Stairway up to the city wall at Korcula, Croatia.  Tower gate and flag above.  Visitors descending the stair (two or three people).
    Korcula-Croatia-HRV200606-182.jpg
  • It rained in January.  Horse eating lunch out of his nosebag on a rainy day; he wears a raincoat, his carriage has an umbrella, and his master stands beside him hoping for customers.  Glistening rain slicked pavement. Crowds in the background in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.  Construction cranes in the sky.  We'll notice them again too later.
    Equine_lunch_Florence_ITA201012-319.jpg
  • 1978
    GRC197804-01-19.jpg
  • NZL201804--9.tif
  • Oman, entrance and views of the ruins at Ubar (also known as Shisr or Wubar).  Remains of stone built walls, with sinkhole below into which the ancient site fell. Though the Quran story describes a wealthy city which vanished, this site was most probably a walled caravanserai around a water hole.  About 30 campsites have been identified in the vicinity.  Site identified by Wilfred Thesiger and Nicholas Clapp in 1990, using satellite photographs.
    OMN200801--4074.jpg
  • View of the photographer's blue jeans and boots after climbing Temple ! or !! at Tikal, Guatemala.  Stone steps and flat grassy terrace above the legs and feet.  Guidebook on the stairs.
    GUA199203-3-31.jpg
  • Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat, interior.  Villa built 1933 as a hunting lodge for the last emperor of Vietnam in this mountain resort.  Memorabilia of the emperor and his Queen, Nam Phuong, including portraits. Though furniture is arranged as though it were lived in, a sense of airlessness, even deadness, prevails..
    Interior-Bao-Dai-palace-VTN200602--0...jpg
  • View from the deck of a 12 passenger sailing schooner docked at Split alongside a massive cruise ship carrying thousands.  The contrast in size and scale is tremendous. Two adult women lounge on the schooner.  The dock is empty except for a green bus pulling away from the cruise ship.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-107.jpg
  • Medieval well head, in a regional Venetian Byzantine style, in a courtyard in Trogir, Croatia.  Corner volutes and a relief panel of the winged lion of St. Mark.
    Trogir-courtyard-wellhead--HRV200606...jpg
  • The Baptistry is also Romanesque, built in the 11th and 12th centuries.  Horse drawn carriages wait for passengers in the Piazza del Duomo, north side of the Baptistry,  Three carriages with horses and drivers have taken on passengers and are about to leave.  A few pedestrians are scattered about.
    Horses_carriages_piazza_Duomo_ITA201...jpg
  • One of the two quadrigas of bronze set on top of the Vittorio Emmanuele monument, Rome, seen from the side along the rooftop.  A scattering of about 6 to 8 people.
    Quadriga-bronze-Vittoriano-ITA200901...jpg
  • Porphyry statue of the four emperors clutch each other in the snow from their position on the southwest corner of the cathedral of St. Mark's, Venice, with a woman and a child exiting the cathedral behind them, and a Gothic Virgin and Child statue beside the door jamb.  Snow and slush on the ground.  Juxtaposition of two very different styles of figure sculpture to scale and real people.
    tetrarchs-statue-Venezia_ITA200403-5...jpg
  • Oman, entrance to the ruins at Ubar (also known as Shisr or Wubar).  Remains of stone built walls, with sinkhole below into which the ancient site fell. Though the Quran story describes a wealthy city which vanished, this site was most probably a walled caravanserai around a water hole.  About 30 campsites have been identified in the vicinity.  Site identified by Wilfred Thesiger and Nicholas Clapp in 1990, using satellite photographs.
    Oman_Wubar_ruins_Ancient_Oman_Omani_...jpg
  • Crowds around the Fountain of Trevi, late afternoon sunlight illuminating its facade.  18th century design by Nicola Salvi.  Crowds mill about in the foreground.
    Fountain-Trevi-Rome_ITA200901--4842.jpg
  • St Peter's Square in the rain, couple running under an umbrella, curved hemicycle of Bernini's colonnade beyond, grey clouds above.
    St-Peter-courtyard-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • Visitors moving toward the camera; Parthenon in background.
    GRC202204-0086m.jpg
  • We were driven many miles, well supplied with oranges, bananas, bottles of drinking water, and a trash bag at each seat.
    IND201301--0532 - Copy.jpg
  • Rear view of four elephants, each with a howdah, two passengers, and a mahout, crossing a stream near Chiang Mai, Thailand.
    THA200603_168.jpg
  • By the last quarter of the 15th century, Domenico Ghirlandaio was the star of fresco.  This is Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86
    Ghirlandaio-Sassetti-chapel-ITA20101...jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the scaffold of the Propylon tightens a clamp around a column.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-2-13.jpg
  • Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat, interior.  Villa built 1933 as a hunting lodge for the last emperor of Vietnam in this mountain resort.  Memorabilia of the emperor and his Queen, Nam Phuong, including portraits. Though furniture is arranged as though it were lived in, a sense of airlessness, even deadness, prevails..
    Bao_Dai_palace_VTN200602--0257.jpg
  • visitors wallking around the new concrete walkway; fencing; railings;
    GRC202204-0081m.jpg
  • Jaipur, Amber Fort, established 1592 by Man Singh I, with palaces added by Jai Singh I (r 1621-67).  View from the howdah of an elephant pacing up the hill to the citadel.  Mahout in foreground.
    IND200111-6-20.jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Srei:  cluster of central sanctuaries and other structures; two tourists in white hats in the foreground..
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_interior_...jpg
  • Peristyle, Diocletian's Palace, looking toward the entrance to the palace residential area.  Groups of tourists standing about, seated on the steps; one holds up her camera, another studies a guidebook, others in the center cluster around their guide.
    HRV200606-112.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence. West end exterior from plaza in a rainstorm.  Tourists huddled around the entrance.
    HRV200606-022.jpg
  • Woman tourist with white or blonde hair looking through the protective fence in front of Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise", Florence Baptistry.  The in situ panels are copies, while the originals are in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo being restored.
    Florence_Baptistry_ITA201012-203.jpg
  • Interior of the Mezquita, or Grand Mosque of Cordoba, showing a woman tourist walking through the forest of columns and giving it scale.  Flash exposure stops her motion while the arches above are slightly blurred.
    Cordoba_mosque_ESP201210--0163.jpg
  • Cloister and Renaissance facade of Santa Clemente.  Woman tourist with camera.  Cobblestoned pavement, graceful arched 18th century facade using ancient columns for the colonnade.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1260.jpg
  • View of the remains of the ancient Roman Aqueduct at Los Milagros, Merida, Spain.  One woman tourist walks along the bottom of the structure.  Masonry pillars with brick in horizontal bands and arches.
    Merida_Roman_Aqueduct_ESP201210--002...jpg
  • Blonde woman tourist steps through the Puerta del Vino in the Alhambra.
    Alhambra_Puerta-del-vino-ESP201210--...jpg
  • Berber drummer teaches drumming to a blonde American tourist, at night, by firelight, in the Sahara desert.
    Teaching-drumming-MOR200411_0609.jpg
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