This whirling dervish was truly amazing - spinning forever his clothes being coloured wheels.
Here, I stopped his movement combining a fill flash with a relatively long exposure.
As to dervishes: this originated as a sort of Sufi-prayer in Turkey - but I guess such tourist performances do not really have a religious significance.
Still, a remarkable experience!
more Egypt pictures.
When I last visited Anu Simbel in 2004, it was imposible to take photos of the inner sanctuary. Fortunately, I had already done so 12 years earlier. In the sanctuary there four seated statues of Amun, Ra-Harakhty, Ptah, and Ramesses. The temple was constructed in such a way that the sun shines directly on 3 of the statues during two days of the year only the statue of Ptah - the god of darkness - remains in the shadow. More pictures from Abu Simbel. ...
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