People of XXI century got used for traveling, it's a part of our life. Pictures become memories, then we refresh them, come back to the places we fell in love. Manaorla, Cique Terre in Italian Liguria is such place for me. Must visit this wonder town once again one day.

That night remains one of our most romantic and beautiful. My wife was standing right in front of the sea (left down corner of the photo) and taking a deep breath. Sunset colors and sea breeze touched us then and still have in impact throught the years. Wish all of us to have such dreams and ability to realize them.

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A modern man can't stay away from the world. News reach us anywhere, hit us, make us get nervous. And I'm the same. I just try to find some time to run away from it, at least a couple of times per year. To run away, to dissolve in nature, to forget about the world for a while, recharge. Clear mind can fight the trouble better:-)

An old picture from a distant location in the very north of my region. I felt like that man fishing in the distance was dissolving in the mist. Just like me dissolving in that place, watching him and forgetting about the world.

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Passengers are greeted as cargo is unloaded from a Peugeot bush taxi or taxi-brousse in front of the Great Mosque in Djenné, an ancient trading town and center of Muslim scholarship strategically situated in the Inland Niger Delta region of Central Mali, West Africa.

While travel by shared bush taxi is slow, uncomfortable, and prone to breakdowns, it can be a highly entertaining experience and remains an essential mode of travel throughout the region.

Bush taxis of this kind tend to leave only when they are fully occupied. That can take several hours to a full tedious day of waiting before departure. They are known n to break down with an excess of passengers and cargo. My ride in the back of this small pickup was shared with nine or ten crammed passengers, several sacks of millet on the cargo floor, and a clutch of clucking chickens.

Djenné’s grand mosque is considered the world’s largest adobe building and one of the greatest achievements of Sudano-Sahelian architecture, unique to the semi-arid Sahel zone that stretches across northern Africa just south of an encroaching Sahara.

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Postrscript - Nowadays, easy access to markets, pastures, and farmlands is hampered as ethnic strife and inter-communal violence continue to erupt under a fragile Malian state with a troubled history of military coups.

Chronic insecurities around the ancient town of Djenné and the central regions of Mali are fuelled by longstanding indigenous concerns over the struggle for scarce natural resources - agricultural land for settled farmers versus water and grazing land for semi-nomadic Peul herdsmen.

Recruitment among Peul (Fulani, Fulbe, Fula) herding communities by armed Islamist groups has escalated tensions in the sedentary agrarian communities (Bambara, Dogon, Tellem, Bozo, and others) who rely on access to agricultural lands for their livelihood.

The current military junta now relies on hired mercenaries from the private Russian-backed Wagner Group for its security needs, coinciding with the recent French withdrawal of troops from the region.

By providing protection to the Malian military regime, the Moscow-centred paramilitary group has increased its power and access to Mali's valued natural resources. These events in Mali and elsewhere around the world are relevant to the current war in eastern Europe.

High-resolution Noritsu Koki QSS-31 digital film scan, shot with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4), circa 1976.

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