POV3594506: Pedestrian throng in a crowded narrow street in old Kathmandu, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594533: Terraced fields and farms on steep slope in Himalayan subsistence farming landscape, Sarangkot, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594545: Paraglider in land-based practice (kiting), Khapaudi, Phewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594561: Young girl ringing Hindu temple bell and touching her forehead, Tal Barahi Temple dedicated to goddess Durga, Phewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594564: Nepali/Tibetan woman in traditional dress paddling canoe across Phewa Lake in Himalayan foothills, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594585: Haystack in front of Himalayan hillfarming village with terraced fields nestling between forested slopes, Bhadaure Tamagi, near Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594615: Traditional Newari architecture - Former trade store Purano Bazaar, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594621: Nepali men playing board game (ludo) on a chautaara, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594648: Mother with sleeping toddler girl on her lap in Nepali hillfarming village, Majhthana, near Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594663: Display of 32 local Nepali varieties of rice, near Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

POV3594669: Nepali teenage journalistsin studio recording child-led radio programme, Pokhara, Nepal (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH3614537: India: Zampa Gate, Diu, union territory of Daman and Diu (1998) / Bridgeman Images

PFH3614561: Thailand: A procession of Thai Buddhists holding candles and circumambulating the viharn at Wat Suthat, Bangkok, for the Visakha Puja Festival / Bridgeman Images

PFH3614612: China: Grape-drying buildings or 'chunche', used to make raisins, Turpan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region / Bridgeman Images

PFH3614633: Slovenia: Representation of one of the months of the year, found on the north and south side arches. 15th century fresco (representing one of the months of the year) by John of Kastav (Johannes de Castua), Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje, Rizana Valley / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712138: City center mall, Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712141: Men dressed in white dancing with sticks during a wedding ceremony, Hormozgan, Bandar-e Kong, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712147: little girl in traditional cbandari lothing, Hormozgan, Bandar-e Kong, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712150: A bandari woman wearing a traditional mask called the burqa at panjshambe Bazar Thursday Market, Hormozgan, Minab, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712192: Hasht behesht palace lion statue, Isfahan province, Isfahan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712201: Women in traditional gilaki costumes, Fars province, Shiraz, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712228: The grand bazaar, Shemiranat county, Tehran, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712234: Sign paying homage to soldiers fallen during the war between Iran and Iraq, Shemiranat county, Tehran, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712243: Shrine of Hasan Ibn Musa Ibn Ibn Jafar, Isfahan province, Kashan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712270: Ceiling with its intricate and elaborate patterns and internal stainless glass dome the Boroujerdi house, Isfahan province, Kashan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712282: Sultan amir ahmad bathhouse, Isfahan province, Kashan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712309: Courtyard of tabatabei historical house, Isfahan province, Kashan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712312: Tabatabaei historical house lower ground, Isfahan province, Kashan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712327: Anti American mural on the wall of the former American embassy, Shemiranat county, Tehran, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712339: Pilgrims at the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh, Qom province, Qom, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712342: Pilgrim child showing a ronaldo sticker at the shrine of fatima al-masumeh, Qom province, Qom, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712345: Pilgrims at the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh, Qom province, Qom, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712381: Hasht behesht palace lion statue, Isfahan province, Isfahan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712399: Carved decorations of an old qajar house, Isfahan province, Isfahan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712414: Sign paying homage to soldiers fallen during the war between Iran and Iraq (1980-88), Shemiranat county, Tehran, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3712417: Sign paying homage to soldier fallen during the war between Iran and Iraq, Isfahan province, Kashan, Iran (photo) / Bridgeman Images