Armchair travel

December 4, 2005 7:28 AM

Images of daily life Photoessays of daily life in Morocco, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. [An update on a plep thread from 2003, and some nice armchair travel for a Sunday morning]
posted by carter (8 comments total)

I spent some time in Morocco, and in Ouarzazate and the Draa Valley, at the end of the 80s and so was very pleased to find these.
posted by carter at 7:31 AM on December 4, 2005

Heh, I found out from perusing the first link that Jack London's yacht was called the "Snark".
posted by Eekacat at 7:40 AM on December 4, 2005

I am so enjoying paging through Paul Starrs' Images of the American West. Particularly this one. Thanks for the great link!
posted by LarryC at 8:33 AM on December 4, 2005

Wow, this image in particular [taken from Images of the American West] is just amazing.

Great stuff, thanks!
posted by grapefruitmoon at 9:07 AM on December 4, 2005

I used to live near Sidi Ahiya during the 60's near Kinitra when my father was stationed on a military base nearby.
Such memories, the bazaars, the fish markets, the people and houses, and of course, cous-cous. . (alllurrrggghhhhh . . . cous-cous . . . )
posted by mk1gti at 3:17 PM on December 4, 2005

Plep! Pleply plep, plep!
posted by homunculus at 4:59 PM on December 4, 2005

Very cool
posted by thirteenkiller at 4:07 PM on December 5, 2005

This is a very good post! I love the image LarryC picked out. Thanks so much.
posted by OmieWise at 6:10 AM on December 6, 2005