Medinat Habu, Egypt

Medinat Habu is one of the more colourful temples in Luxor. It is thought that following the time of the pharaohs local Christians built churches and houses amongst the ruins and it was their walls that preserved the paint on the hieroglyphics and gave an indication of quite how impressive the temple must have been in the years before Christ.

Xinaliq

Seven thousand feet up in the High Caucasus mountains in Azerbaijan is the village of Xinaliq. It's one of Europe's most isolated villages and they even have their own language as if to prove it.

The only fuel in the treeless mountains is dried cow dung. It's stacked and dried besides the houses.

I'm always surprised that kids around the world all learn to make these wire toys.

The entire economy of the village is based on sheep with almost every family owning some.