Description: bob cranwell | Amateur Emigrant| Travel memoirs, ways of seeing, adventure, travel, philosophy, travel blog, https://www.amateuremigrant.com/#
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Amateur emigrants in Morocco Prize camels at Pushkar, India Two young male tigers, Bandhavgarh, India Marrakesh Express in southern Morocco Young camel near Djanet, central Algeria SW China- a wry smile for the 'television people' © Carl Welsby Mountain view, Kyangjin Gompa Langtang, Nepal Mud brick tower houses Shibam, Hadramhaut Yemen The Chinese road, central Ethiopia Swimmers posing by the Arctic Circle sign Boat trip, Varanasi Pigeons aloft, Jami Masjid, Old Delhi Minaret at Mosque dedicated to Zaynab,
Everybody travels, whether going down to the market, tramping across hillsides at the weekend, taking holidays, travelling in the imagination from your armchair or undertaking a full-scale expedition.
In ages past, the main reasons for moving around voluntarily would have been in search of seasonal or scattered resources, or as a pilgrimage to try and improve your lot on earth or in the afterlife, involuntary travel might involve being captured and deported as a slave or conscripted in somebody’s army !