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The Governors Office, historic Government Buildings, Pingyao City, Shaanxi Province, China
Early morning exercises for soldiers in front of The Forbidden City Palace Museum, Zijin Cheng, Beijing, China
Musicians armed with drums and cymbals accompany Lion dance performers during Chinese New Year in Kowloon Hong Kong CHINA, Hong Kong, Kowloon
South Georgia, Bay of Isles, Prion Island. Adult Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) playing with a photographer
Safari Guide, John Stevens pointing out elephant spore, Matusadona, Zimbabwe. ZIM0036. Safari Guide, John Stevens pointing out elephant spore, Matusadona, Zimbabwe. © John Warburton-Lee
Derrick Shenton (owner) & Patrick Njobvu (guide) look out from ebony tree. Derrick Shenton (owner) & Patrick Njobvu (guide) look out from ebony tree
Patrick Njobvu, guide, Kaingo Camp
A potter fashions cooking pots by the coil method, shaping them by eye alone. Surprisingly, craft skills such as pottery and basket-making are the sole preserve of men in Southwest Uganda
A man carries traditional split-bamboo baskets to sell at Kisoro market. Most women in Southwest Uganda carry their farm produce to market in these attractive baskets balanced on their heads
Most women in Southwest Uganda carry their farm produce to market in attractive split-bamboo baskets balanced on their heads. The baskets are made exclusively by men
Scattered bands of Batwa pygmies hunt and fish in the Semliki Forest of Western Uganda, an extension of the vast Ituri rainforest of the Congo DRC
The BaGanda and other Bantu-speaking peoples of Uganda still make cloth from the bark of certain trees using traditional methods. These days the cloth is principally used as shrouds
A Nubian man wearing a white turban smiles broadly at his friend
Mountain biker, Drakensburg
A male mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei), known as a silverback feeds in the Volcanoes National Park. This gorilla belongs to the 36-strong Susa group whose permanent territory lies high
A male Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) under a stormy sky in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Beautiful red sandstone cliffs surround the isolated Waterberg Plateau, a 50 km long table mountain, which has become a park for rare and threatened species
Dion So-Oabeb, an experienced guide at the sprawling site of Twyfelfonteins 5, 000 rock engravings or petroglyphs, ranging from simple geometric designs to complex friezes of animals
Morocco, Marrrakesh, Old City, Medina, A whirling dirvish playes instrument
Kenya, Kilifi. A local fisherman paddles his dugout canoe across Kilifi Creek
Kenya, Rift Valley Province, Tum. An old Turkana medicine man. His wooden necklaces are charms to ward off evil spirits
Kenya, Lamu archipelago, Pate Island. A man on Pate Island tends his smallholding planted with tobacco. Bananas grow beyond the fence. Kenya, Lamu archipelago, Pate Island
A tourist watches birds and animals from the verandah of his comfortable tent at Ol Seki Tented Camp in Masai Mara Game Reserve
A Lamu man strings the back of a traditional Lamu-style chair embellished with marquetry. Situated 150 miles north-northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD
A skilled craftsman puts the finishes touches to a replica of a Pate Island chair. Wood carving is the most important craft in Lamu and sustains the greatest number of artisans
A Pate farmer tends his tobacco crop among the coral ruins of old Pate town. His Arabian origins are unmistakable. Pate was established by Arabs from Arabia in the 13th century, or possibly earlier
A Samburu initiate with bird skins hanging from his headband. While their wounds heal for a month after circumcision, initiates spend their time wandering in the countryside attempting to kill as
A Samburu initiate takes aim at a bird with a blunt arrow. While their wounds heal for a month after circumcision, initiates spend their time wandering in the countryside attempting to kill as many
A Samburu youth is forcibly restrained after throwing a fit in the tension-filled days leading up to his circumcision. It is not uncommon for Samburu youths and warriors to succumb to hysterical
A dikdik in the Samburu National Reserve of Northern Kenya. Didiks are territorial and live in monogamous pairs. Only males have small horns
Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the famous 20th century explorer and author, relaxes on safari in Kenya in 1990. Wilfred Thesiger
A fine old bull elephant with heavy tusks. Marsabit was renown for elephants with exceptional ivory. The largest elephant living there in the second half of the 20th century was called Ahmed
A Pokomo drummer from the Tana River district of Kenya
A young Galla herdsboy with his familys cattle outside their homestead
A Msai warrior blows a trumpet fashioned from the horn of a Greater Kudu. The strap is decorated with cowrie shells. Kudu-horn trumpets are only sounded to call men to arms or on ceremonial occasions
A back view of a Msai warrior resplendent with long ochred braids tied in a pigtail. This singular hairstyle sets him apart from other members of his society
A month after a Samburu youth has been circumcised, he becomes a warrior. He will go to the nearest stream or Waterhole to wash off a months grime
A Samburu warrior has his Ochred hair braided by a friend. A mixture of cows urine and ashes is often rubbed into the hair first to help straighten it
A young Samburu man leads a donkey carrying the basic structure of a temporary home. The curved sticks will be tied together in a dome and covered with hides
A Samburu man looks out over a vast tract of unspoilt country as storm clouds gather in the far distant
Kenya, Mount Kenya, Lewa Downs. Msai warrior at Lewa Downs with Mount Kenya in background
Beaded cross-belts worn by a Laikipiak Msai elder
Msai warrior framed by a flat topped acacia tree and Mt. Kenya (17, 050 ft)
Elaborate headdress and body adornments worn by Samburu moran (warrior)
Mobile safari in Kenya with Samburu moran warriors as game spotters
Ghana, Northern region, Tamale. A Muslim prays and reads the Quran at a Mosque in Tamale during Ramadan
An Ethiopian man wears a headdress made from the skin of a gelada, a unique baboon-like primate that lives at high altitudes in northern Ethiopia
An old Dassanech man wearing a traditional lip ornament and earrings. The old practice of piercing the flesh below a mans lower lip for decorative purposes is fast dieing out.The Dassanech people
