Poppies flowering in the desert for a few days each spring, Kara Kum desert, Uzbekistan, C.I.S., Central Asia, Asia

The Kara Kum canal brings water from the River Amu Darya (Oxus), to irrigate cotton fields, Turkmenia, Central Asia, Asia

Coloured kum-kum powder, piled up, market, Mysore, South India, India, Asia