

The main temple in Dougga, viewed against a dark sky. A Tibetan stupa in an arid area, viewed from a cloudless sky.


In Dougga, the bizarrely-well preserved Roman city in northwest Tunisia, near the Algerian border:
Africus ... a huge circle marked out on the paving in an old square, denoting the various winds. Africus ... the hot wind. (The arc is the horizontal line running above the word africus)
(ip)siobhon(o ... a near-word created by the Latin run-on writing in an inscribed block in Dougga.
For both ... it's hard to see these as 1,800 years old, being so clearly written and well-preserved.


Mossy growths on beach on northern most tip of Taiwan island; sulfurous fumarole (great word ... means volcanic crack in the earth's crust where steam and sulfur come out) in Taiwan's Yangmingshan national park.


Three pictures, from a plane, one shows the high Tibetan plateau; another what looks like a village perched on the edge of a nasty cliff! This is on the Szechuan-Tibet border, perhaps in an area where pandas roam.