What is the city but the people? ~William Shakespeare
A small river village in lower Bangladesh.
Residents of Khulna, Bangladesh, cross the river by punt.
Not far from the city of Khorog, a pretty little village over the Tajiki border in Afghansitan.
The tangled wiring overhead in the backstreets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is the most spaghetti-esuqe I have come across ever.
Bogra, Bangladesh.
China's Shanghai has gone through a buiding boom for at least twenty years. This was the Pudong district in 2000.
Lindos is an ancient city on the Greek island of Rhodes, from about 1000BC. It is home to an acropolis, many colourful churches, ancient fort and temple and good views.
Fira is the main town on the spectacular and famous Greek island of Santorini.
East Nusa Tengarra Province runs from Indonesia's Bali to Timor, and is largely undeveloped. Here, a typical fishing village, on the island of Alor.
A small town on Lake Takengon, in Sumatra's north, Indonesia.
The Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar viewed from a hotel roof top.
Berhale is the frontier town on the edge of the Danakil Depression. Visitors who come for the spectacular other-worldly landscapes must travel in a convoy, and be guided by Ethiopian security forces. Oh, and it often hits 50 degrees.
Tajikistan's highest town, Murghab, 3650m, population 4000, sits on the Pamir Highway, half way between Khorog and the Kyrgyz border.
A typical town street in Tajikistan's Rasht Valley.
Half way up the Yagnob Valley, in Tajikistan, is the traditional town of Margeb, where stone houses and barns are common. Further up the valley, ancient languages, extinct elsewhere are still spoken.
Small villages dot the Zeravshan Valley, around Haft Kul (Seven Lakes) in Tajikistan.
Once an important stop for Silk road traders, Barskoon is now a sleepy town on (Lake) Issy Kol, the highest lake, and the furthest place from the ocean to ever hosts a sailing regatta.
It is one of the best places in Kyrgyzstan to organize horse treks.
Permanent and nomadic portable houses at 3000m in Altyn Arashan mountain area, Kyrgyzstan. The village is the start/finish point for some challenging multi-day hikes, and provides a much needed meal and sauna.
A typical village in the lower reaches of Papua New Guinea.
In the deep north of Laos, hiking from Luang Namtha can take you to traditional villages like this one.
An old view (1992) of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with the moorish style 1907 Jamek Mosque in the foreground.
A village built on and above the water, in Borneo. This island was off the coast of Sandakan, Malaysia, and we had come to look at tourist potential in the mangrove forests.
Kandy is the largest inland city in the country. A small building houses lawyers' chambers.
An old multi-storey shop in the market district of Kandy, Sri Lanka. Love that 3rd floor attic/watch tower.
A nomad pulls his wagon past a drab Soviet apartment block, in the haphazard Mongolian capital of Ulan Batur.
A one-street highway stop town, somewhere in sparsely populated Mongolia.
A typical town of the Mongolian steppe, Moron (various spellings) is the sort of place you don't want to get stuck on the way to somewhere else on the way to where you want to go. I did.
In old abandoned town in Oman, Ibra once housed many fine buildings, guarded by ornate doors, surrounded by courtyards.
A field of date palms outside the historical Omani city of Nizwa.
The city of Nizwa viewed from the heritage listed fort.
Misfat Al Abriyeen is an old city of mud brick home and workshops, clinging precariously to the hillside. Below the town, fields of date palms are fed by ancient irrigation chennels.
Not far from Misbat Al Abriyeen, Al Hamra is a once-grand town of multi-storey buildings. Built from mud centuries ago, the homes are in varying states of disrepair and by and large uninhabitable.
While the old town and buildings of Al Hamra are abandoned, the ancient irrigational channels still field the date palms. New buildings occupy parts of town, away from the old.
Domes, minarets and wind towers fill the skyline of the ancient Iranian city of Yazd.
The village of Lealui, once a royal city, in the far west of Zambia, where rumbles of separationists still are heard.
If walls could talk, these village walls in the mountains of Uzbekistan would have tell of Russian intrigue, Mongol hordes and even of their Sogdian origins in the 5th century BC.
Ha Tien is the Vietnamese border town at the end of the spectacular coastal road to Cambodia.
Ho Chi Minh City in 1993, going through a whole heap of growing pains.
Megalo Papingo and its twin village Mikro Papingo are but two of many old stone-built settlements in Greece's north, near Ioannina.