animal market out of Islamabad, Pakistan

                 The goats were highly decorated and their udders covered with a colourful bag to prevent the kids from drinking.

Boarding the bus. As with trains, as many seem to occupy the roof as the interior.

    Another bus and truck. I could not ascertain who was responsible for the decoration, but they seemed to vie for the title of most         decorative.

                       One of the incredible decorated buses in Pakistan.

         The adornment was almost overwhelming, and no two were the same.

       

                                                                The interior was also elaborately embellished.

                          These vehicles were unique to Pakistan and one of things that I shall always remember it by.

                                      Another of the fanciful trucks.

                 Many were hung with black cloth to ward off evil spirits.

some of the prolific fantastically decorated trucks in Pakistan

                                                  Many of these vehicles were so ornate that they almost defied description.

                   Third-century AD Roman mosaic depicting the Rape of Europa in the National Museum Beirut, Lebanon.

vendor barrow in the Syrian sector of Beirut

      

  

r          Ramshackle shops in the Syrian sector of Beirut were a distinct contrast to the modern multistorey constructions in the city              centre.