article_snippet: Hormuz island, Persian Gulf. '
article_snippet: The photographer travelled along the ethnically diverse Persian Gulf coast region, which is rarely visited by outsiders, and spent time on Qeshm and Hormuz islands, the former the site of recent military exercises from where missiles were fired from the coast to destroy a mock U.S. carrier.
article_snippet: Remains of the chapel at the Portuguese fort on Hormuz Island.
article_snippet: Many battlements were constructed in southern Iran after the Portuguese viceroy Alfonso de Albuquerque attacked in 1507 .
article_snippet: The stirking ruins of Hazareh Castle in Bibi Minoo, overlooking Minab, in Hormozgan province .
article_snippet: Working on a traditional Lenge at low tide, Bandar Abbas.