Arabian Bazaar (8:56)

Canvas tent flaps flutter in the desert wind. Merchants entreat passers buy to sample their wares. Silks from the East, Spices from the South, figs and dates from the North, and stranger wares from more foreign climes. Hawkers declaim the virtues of their goods in Arabic, Greek, and Pahlavi. Ox-driven carts heavy with goods and gold trundle through the packed streets. Street performers, poets, fire-eaters, musicians and dancers, compete with the stall-keepers for the attention of the crowd. The *klink* of coin falling into an upturned hat or cup indicates their success. All the while the assembled shoppers haggle and swap gossip under the blazing arabian sun. Use it in your next adventure that takes you to exotic lands...

Music by Christy Carew; sound design by Christy Carew and Erika Lieberman.

_{Illustration by Lars Lunde; models: Anka Kusu Tribe}