Africa - 2005


	Africa (2005)

Photos per year (number): 1996 (30) 2000 (424) 2001 (17) 2003 (442) 2005 (126) 2006 (183) 2007 (229)


Arriving in the centre of Tripoli	Central Tripoli	Poster in celebration of Khadafi	National Museum	Entering the souk	Hides and rugs on sale	Camel tapestry	The entrance gate to the souk	Central Tripoli	A quiet courtyard

Young girl waiting at her doorstep	Girls going back home from school	Quiet street life	Street life	Children in the souk streets	Passages in the souk	Craftsmen working on copper	A skilled copper worker	Old colonial building	Colonial legacy

Former king's residence	Mosaics from Leptis Magna	An intriguing statue of Aphrodite	Statue from Sabratha	The National Museum	Typical green and white house	Old men sitting in a street of the Medina	An old man enters a house in the Medina	Children in the streets of the Medina	A gate to the Medina

Entering the Old City	Roman triumphal arch	Old car in front of a mosque	Museum of mosaics from a basilica	Sabratha mosaics	Superb Roman statue	Welcome to the Sabratha WHS	First sight of the amphitheatre	The Bes Mausoleum towers in the ruins	An outstanding vista of house and temple ruins

Bes Mausoleum	Bes Mausoleum lions	Bes mausoleum lion	Columns by the beautiful sea	Roman forum	Temple of Antonine	A forest of columns	Splendour of columns	Flavius Julius Fountain	In the middle of the Sabratha columns

Proud columns have been reerected	Latrines in the baths by the sea	Inside a gallery	In the distance stand yet more temples	A fisherman by the Sabratha ruins	Superb view of Sabratha by the sea	A glimpse of the site's size	East forum temple	Eye-catching mosaic	Side entrance to the amphitheatre

Impeccable access to the amphitheatre	Sabratha seen from the amphitheatre	The Bes mausoleum stands out	End of a short concert	Remarkable state of conservation of the amphitheatre	A wide angle view of the amphitheatre	I stand out looking at the Sabratha Amphitheatre	Dolphin statue in front of the stage	Friezes decorate the front of the stage	Hercules

Jumping around in the amphitheater!	The stage of the amphitheatre	Wide view of the amphitheatre	Dinner table	Discovering the splendour of Leptis Magna	Welcome to the Leptis Magna WHS	Ornate decorations	Monument at the crossroads of the 2 main axes	Entering Leptis Magna	Hadrian baths

Latrines in the Hadrian Baths	Massive entrance to the Hadrian Baths	Steam baths	A colder corner shielded from the heat	Byzantine Church entrance	The massive forum	Glimpse of the forum's size	Shops in the forum	Decorations above the shop arcades	A Roman face

Court of Justice	Hemicycle at the end of the Court of Justice	Good state of preservation and restoration	Athena protecting Hercules	Hercules and Cerberus	Another scene from the 12 works of Hercules	Hercules fights yet again	Sophistication in Leptis Magna	Beautiful green marble	View of the ruins by the sea

Old and modern columns	The ruins fall in the sea	The old hippodrome	Poor injured robin	Yet another temple!	The old central market	Centre of the marketplace	The marketplace	Roman ship	Temple in front of the theatre

The theatre	In front of the stage	Stage of Leptis Magna theatre	View of the theatre	Wide angle view of the Leptis Magna theatre	Pitcher on a theatre column	Cardo maximus	A genie holding a laurel wrath	Top of the tetraplyon	First and last view of Leptis Magna

A nice beach near Leptis Magna	Bird Island	Camels in a pickup car	Typical homes	View of Tripoli's orderly groves	Flat and cultivated northern Libya