I got to be a water boy

It's blisteringly hot in sunny Mecca. It's virtually impossible to do anything outside yet the street cleaners and shop stewards are out there plying their trade. The owners - almost exclusively Arab, will be under the air con. The workforce, mainly Pakistani and Bengali will be doing the actual work. At least that's how it looks to me.

I think I've managed to capture all the pics that I wanted to before my arrival to this Holy of Holy places. Some of the photos I am extremely pleased with. Hopefully or should that be Inshallah, you will all like them as well.

As there are a few days left in Mecca and thanks to a request nay a demand, an ORDER even, I will spend the next few days trying to capture the warmth of the relationships between men and women. No doubt many non-muslims feel that there's no such thing.* Well, that's certainly going to be a challenge. It'll be thoroughly embarrassing if I get caught. How would I explain myself?

I did initially try to capture the relationships but it proved too difficult. Perhaps, I wasn't trying hard enough. Well I promise to try harder.

To end the post, I carried several bottles of zamzam for a couple of 9 year old kids down a few flights of stairs in al-Haram as they were struggling to do so themselves.

Ah bless, I hear you say in unison like a castrated choir. Too bloomin' right!

Audieu, Audieu to you and you and you.

* Sorry, that might have been a horrendous generalisation. But media coverage would suggest this. The situation is probably not helped by certain doofus muslims I'll admit.

[Category saudi arabia][tags saudi arabia, umrah, pilgrim, photography, photo, al-haram, ka'aba, mecca, medina, people, mosque, religion, hotel, bathroom, rich, poor, islam, kids, water, zamzam, relationships]