FROM HOME-MADE guitars to dancers descended from the stars, a splash of colour, a couple of chords, or a wee shimmy across the floor.
A band with home-made intsruments plays daily at Lesotho's Malealea Lodge.
Zimbabwe's Matobo National Park has several San rock art sites along its scenic hiking trails.
Gold necklace in museum, Gyeongju, South Korea.
Stone carving, museum, South Korea.
Typically lurid east Asian Buddhist temple art, South Korea.
Every city in South Korea seems to have a section of murals. Does this depict the beginning of the K-pop girl band phenomena?
Ssanggyesa is one of Kora's finest temples, covered of course in depictions Buddhist tales.
Decorations on a wall in a Shan village near Mae Hong Son town.
Traditional motifs on the curved roof houses of Sulawesi's Toraja region. Almost nobody outside the bigger towns opts for non-traditional houses.
Most of the houses in this village in Gorontalo, in Indonesia's Sulawesi, had nature or wildlife themed murals. No PR, no attempt to attract influencers.
All the shop front shutters in the main street of Solo, Indonesia are covered in murals.
Solo is Java's other royal city of culture. It has two kraton (palaces). This is at the Pura Mangkunagaran.
A short drive outside Solo are many Hindu temples, dating to around the 15th century.
Further north of Solo, near Surabaya, Trowulan was the site of Java's largest Hindu empire, the Majaphit, which reigned from the 13th century.
Yogyakarta is by far Indonesia's most famous city of culture, attracting millions of tourists a year.
Dancers train from a young age. Classical Javanese dance is delicate and elegant.
It also sometimes has girls going each other with knives.
Wayang Kulit shadow puppet shows are one of the many arts of Yogya.
Yogya's museums display some fine works from its many nearby ancient temples.
Borobodur and Prambanan are the two most famous ancient temples near Yogya, but there are dozens, such as Candi Plaosan Lor.
Like its famous neighbour Prambanan, Candi Plaosan Lor is a 9th century Hindu temple, adorned with fine sculptures.
Dancers getting funky in Badami, India, on the temple walls.
Hoysaleshwara, a Hindu temple in Karnataka, India is a smorgasbord of stone artworks.
This is one of thousands of elephants decorating the walls. No two are the same.
Dancers and musicians join warriors, priests, kings, deities and creatures real and mythical across the height and breadth of the exterior.
The temple took around 40 years to complete in the 12th century. A depiction of warriors aboard a chariot never got finished.
This ornate depiction of dancers is remarkable for that leg extending out of the border.
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace in Srirangapatna, near Mysore is a small teak building set in peaceful gardens, covered in mural depicting battles and court life.
Arjuna's Penance, also known as Descent of the Ganges, is part of the UNESCO listed Hindu temples in Mahabalipuram, on Tamil Nadu's Coromandel Coast. The world famus temples there failed to impress me much.
Thanjavur Big Temple, on the other hand is mind-blowing. Built over 1000 years ago, the scale here is next level.
Faded frescoes on the compound walls of Thanjavur Big Temple.