Whale Watching around Catalina Island

Catalina Island, west end.


Birds at Long Beach, California.

加州圣塔巴巴拉传教会 Old Mission Santa Barbara

Mission Santa Barabra, California. Google Satellite Map

Mission Santa Barbara was the 10th of the California missions to be founded by the Spanish Franciscans. It was established on the Feast of S. Barbara, Dec. 4, 1786. The original buildings were of adobe and unpretentious. As the years passed, there was progress and development. There were three adobe churches here, each larger than the other, before the present church. The third was destroyed by earthquake in 1812. The present church was finished and dedicated in 1820. The beautiful fountain in front of the mission was built in 1808. The original purpose of the mission was the Christianization of the Chumash Indians. This was considered accomplished by the 1830's.


Santa Babara Mission, California.


Santa Babara Mission, California.


Santa Babara Mission, statue inside the church.


Mission Santa Babara, California.


Santa Babara Mission, the grassland in front of the church. Google Satellite Map


Sabta Babara Mission. California.


Santa Barbara Courthouse at night. Google Satellite Map

洛杉矶盖蒂博物馆 Getty's Museum, Los Angeles

Getty's Museum, Los Angeles.


Entrance to Getty's Museum.


Getty's garden and museum buildings.


Getty's Museum. Garden view.


Getty's Museum. Birds of Paradise.


View of Los Angeles and Freeway 405 from Getty's Museum.


Daily congestion of Freeway 405 traffic through Sepulveda Pass.


Birds of Paradise of Getty's Museum.


Cactus Garden, Getty's Museum.


A view through one of Getty's stairs.


Getty's Garden.


Getty's architecture.


Giant pillars of Getty's Museum.


Getty's museum, another naturally framed view.


Getty's garden from above.


Getty's Museum, a garden view.

Nephi, Utah.

迷失在开罗 Lost in Cairo

Traffic in Cairo, in front of the Egyptian Museum.


Barrell Lounge and Bar, Windsor Hotel, Cairo.


Crowded minibus in Cairo, only LE0.75 a ride. Taxi costs LE20.


Cairo traffic.


Coptic Cairo, below ground level.


Cairo rooftop dishes.


Bayt al-Suhaymi, Cairo's finest example of the traditional family mension built throughout the city from Mamluk times to the 19th century. Islamic Cairo, Egypt.


Islamic Cairo. Nobel Prize Literature Winner Naguib Mahfouz was born in this alley.


Modern central Cairo.


Cairo traffic. Egypt.


Shadow of a mosque in Cairo.


Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt, one of the best museums in the world. In 1835, the Egyptian government established the "Service des Antiques de l'Egypte" in an attempt to halt the plundering of archeological sites and to arrange the exhibition of collected artifacts. In 1900, the Egyptian Museum as we know it today was built and now houses over 120,000 objects from the pre-historic era to the Greco-Roman period, including ancient sculptures of the Sphinx. Main attraction: Artifacts from the tombs of kings and royal families, particularly those belonging to King Tutankhamun.


The Mohammad Ali (Alabaster) Mosque, Citadel, Cairo, Egypt.


Military Museum, Cairo.


The statue of Ibrahim Pasha (in front of the Military Museum) and the Mohammad Ali Mosque in the Citadel, Cairo.

埃及风俗人情 Egypt: People and Culture

Camel truck, Upper Egypt.


Aswan Souk (market), Upper Egypt.


Egyptian bus. Aswan, Egypt.


Edfu market, Egypt.


Market in Luxor, Egypt.


Two Egyptian boys in Luxor.


Egyptian school girls at Queen Hetshepsut's Temple of Deir el Bahari, Egypt.


Egyptian school boys running up the steps of Queen Hetshepsut's Temple of Deir el Bahari, Egypt.


A large bowl of koshary, LE2.0, a famous Egyptian dish. Very delicious!!!


A woman in the Mohammad Ali Mosque, Citadel, Cairo.