Feluccas on the Nile
Just about every evening you can see this sort of sunset over the Nile in Luxor and Aswan.
Similar shots on this site:
Aswan Sunset, Luxor Sunrise, Egypt: an evening in Aswan.
May 5, 2005
Random post from the past:
Lucknow residency
The "residency" in Lucknow was demolished in the Indian mutiny of 1857. The uprising started when Indian soldiers refused to "bite the cartridge". This referred to the way the paper cartridges containing gunpowder were opened at the time, the problem being that, in order to keep the dry, they had been greased with pork or beef fat. This, of course, was not in accordance with Muslim and Hindu believes. ...