Marco Polo

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Cardamom is still graded by hand.
The 'naked sadhu' in Mumbai has not worn clothes for fifty years.
Mountains throw off blankets of clouds at dawn in a view from Adam's Peak.
A dead holy man is carried to his funeral pyre in Junagadh.
Sadhu holy man in Jujarat, India
Monks of all ages wait for mornng prayers and the only meal of the day.
Hundreds of boats create an immense traffic jam on the Grand Canal in Yangzhou.
Foot binding in Yunnan, China. Abolished for decades, the feet of elderly women are sometimes still marked by binding.
The skimming light floods the valley of Bagan with gold, Myanmar.
A young Kurd shepherd holds up the newest addition to the flock.
A wedding in Jundian: flakes of shaving foam rain down on the newly-weds.
A devotee kisses the door of Khadiman Mosque.
In a market in Baghdad, copper pots being repaired are beaten and soldered on small anvils stuck in the ground.
A group of dervishes celebrates the 62nd birthday of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit.
Everyone was celebrating in Tikrit but that day the guest of honor did not show up for the festivities.
Veiled women head to the Jame Masjid, the Great Mosque in Kerman.
In Yazd, the Towers of Silence were open-air burial places.
Flying toward the Panjshir valley on a helicopter sent by Massoud.
Women in traditional costumes heading for the Taloqan market, known as Taican by Marco Polo.
A watermelon-seller takes his goods to Taloqan market.
In Feyzabad, like inevery other bazaar in the Middle East, basic goods make a colorful display in the bazaar.
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Horses graze freely in the meadows of the foothills.
The Shah of Wakhan, said Ismail, greets his subjects with a traditional salute.
Education in the Wakhan Corridor is provided by tradition and nature.
The Corridor comes to an end: China is just over the horizon.
Road accidents are a common sight on this stretch of the Silk Road.
Tajik girls from Akmiqit go to collect water.
Tiao zi, literally 'pulled strings' are made only by hand.
Even the Boiling of the cocoons is carried out using a long-established method.
Mogao oasis was 'rediscovered' in the early twentieth century.
Lake Shouxi in Yangzhou is a series of bridges, man-made islands and pavilions.
Fishermen with their haul on the West Lake in Hangzhou, where aquaculture has been practiced since the Middle Ages.
Practicing tai chi in a pavilion on the West Lake.
Sunset dissolves the blue of the lovely West Lake.
Tea Production in a factory in Yaan
Final phase of tea-leaf processing in the Yaan factory.
The shoes on the left, looking like those of a toddler, belong to an eighty-year-old-women, whose feet were bound when she wa...
In busy Xiahe, close to the Labrang monastery, youngsters in their finery prepare to celebrate Monlam, the Buddist New Year.
In a room of the monastery the monks prepare the paper that will be used for the Buddhist montra.
Monasticism is not just prayer: young monks intensively discuss the doctrine of the Enlightened One.
Monks quench their thirst with freshly fallen snow.
Outside the monastery, many food stands sell sunflower seed, soya beans and noodles.
With cords providing control, the tangkha is then unfurled along a sloping wall.
Da Nang, far from the new centers of power, is hectic and relatively wealthy.
Orangutans are shy and defenseless creatures; here one emerges from the forest in search of food and clean air.
Precious stones are sieved and sorted before being sent to nearby Ratnapura for cutting and polishing.
The young in the fishing villiages of Kerala dress simply and suitably.
Under a full moon, fishermen prepare their boat for the night-time laying of the nets.
A Brahmin celebrates a wedding in Chennai.