I don’t know much about art, but apparently I know what I like to photograph.
In one of Oman's many forts, this one at Jalan Bani Bu Ali, a coloured door outlives its usefulness.
Hand woven carpets being made in a Khiva workshop, Uzbekistan.
A ceiling of the stunning Tosh-hovli Palace, Khiva, Uzbekistan.
Traditional arts and crafts have been enjoying a renaissance in Uzbekistan, since the break up of the Soviet Union.
Wandering through the magical streets of Khiva becomes a blur of silk road madrasah. I only just managed to squeeze one more in, and found this bizarre collection of surrealist art.
Geometric designs of Islamic art and architecure on full display in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
A beautiful example of silk road Islamic design on the Nadir Divan-Begi Madrasah, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
A choreographer takes her dancers through their routine in Khoja Gaukushan madrasah in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Islamic. Central Asian. Timurid. The breathtaking tile work on the great silk road buildings never grows old. This example is in the Kalyan Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Nadir Divan-begi Khanqah, a sufi lodge in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, forms the backdrop for a music video clip.
In the workshop of world famous Uzbek master potter Rustam Usmanov, delicate designs are painstakingly added.
An apprentice whips up a simple vase, in the Rishton workshop where he will spend many years learning from a master who exhibits his work in the world's most famous galleries.
Arabic inscriptions from the Koran decorate the walls of Uzbekistan's Ulugh Beg Madrasa (1417-20).
More magnificent Arabic script from Uzbekistan's Timurid glory, this time the Sher Dor Madrasah (1619-36).
Also from the Sher Dor Madrasah, more Timurid design triumphs.
Striking and unsual, the decoration of the arched entrance to the Sher Dor Madrasah defy the Islamic prohibition on idols.
Scenes of the Buddha stories depicted on temple doors in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Taiwan's National Palace Museum is unbelievable. Even the tea-pots blew my tiny, tiny mind.
Delicate porcelain bowl in Taiwan's National Palace Museum.
Imagination runs wild on the walls of Chinese temples, like this one in Tainan, southern Taiwan.
Taiwan's capital, Taipei is home to a great many old temples with beautiful paintings adorning the walls.
Again, Taipei temple art.
More Taipei temple art, two staggering drunks.
A woman tattoing a man in a painting in a Taipei temple.
On Route 1340, which skirts along the Thai-Burma border west of Chiang Mai, the traditional dress of Lahu (?) girl.
With depictions of hell and the life cycles of re-incarnation, Sala Keoke in Nong Khao, Thailand features statues up to 25m tall. It is the vision of Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat, who built a more famous "Buddha Park" just over the river in Laos.
I failed to find the Khmer temples, but a temple made of bottles, with a Buddhist scene in coloured stones? That's Thailand.
Carved lintel at Muang Tam, an 11th century Khmer temple in present day Thailand.
At India's Amritsar Golden Temple, a band plays. Is that a sitar? I really wouldn't know.
A small stone carving of a dancer in the old Indian capital city of Mehrauli, where the Delhi Sultanate consolidated its rule in the 12th century.
Built by Nur Jahan between 1622 and 28, Itmad-ud Duala tomb, is overshadowed by Agra's more famous tomb, the Taj Mahal.
The delicate artworks and perfect proportions of the tomb are in many ways more breathtakin than the Taj itself.
"Itmad-ud Duala" means "The Lord Treasurer", and was Mirza Ghiyas Beg, Nur Jahan's father, grandfather to Mumtaz Mahal, for whom the Taj was built.
Mughal gardens, following the Persian tradition, are also works of art. Mehtab Bagh sits opposite the Taj in Agra, and has some of the best views of the monument.
A section of Shah Jahan's masterpiece.
Floral designs on the ivory walls of the Taj Mahal.
A work of art.
A floral motif on the Mehmaan Khana, one of the structures which flank Agra's Taj Mahal.
An unusual piece of art, which make an awkward souveineer, oustide an artshop in Namibia's small town of Omaruru.