Bahrain and the Tree of Life...

(Photos by Tavarua)

Parked to walk a sandy desert hill to visit a 400 years old mesquite tree.

Bahrain has an arid desert climate - today 35 degree Celsius, it is hot and the temperatures stay high year round.

In the midst of a hot dry desert is a lonely tree named Sharajat-al-Hayat/The Tree of Life.  The source of water for the tree is still unknown.

The local legend tells you that this was the tree of life in the original Garden of Eden.

and later in the shade of a palm tree something cold to drink and good book...

Bahrain.......

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

...visual perception is your minds eye...

Art enlightens our minds...our senses...and our human experiences are immeasurable...like the water in the river flows..the journey of life is to live...so simple is the answer....but few people live...as their expectations takes their minds away from life...in art you can lose yourself and find yourself as it is perhaps an expression of who we are....or a guide for our thoughts and emotions...and what we think is what we understand...

Change is not necessary for life....it is life.....

Without imagination...Your life is as dry as a desert .....

Kingdom of Bahrain....located in the Persian Gulf....West of Qatar and East of Saudi Arabia...

(All Photos in This Post by Tavarua)

...Pearls are classified to their color, size, shape and lustre.....unfortunately - there are no more pearl diving here in Bahrain as it ones was ....

Bahrain had some of the purest and finest pearls you could find due to the oysterbed locations close to the underwater - sweet water springs...the most excellent pearls was the "Jiwan".....Bahrain in Arabic means Two Seas and Bahrain has the first sea surrounding the island and the second is a sea of groundwater...

Of course there are/were other pearl classifications as well - the Yaka and Qolo which followed after the Jiwan......

Tobacco leaves....

from Oman.....

Traditional clothing from National Museum of Bahrain...

Destination......Bahrain...

(Photo by Tavarua)

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

- Henry David Thoreau