Group of soldiers, Jan's comrades in arms, from the 11th Czechoslovak Infantry Battalion – Eastern which Jan photographed as a souvenir. Second from left, at that time still as a private, Jiří Flak

With local people somewhere in Palestine

Inhospitable dry and hot landscape around the army encampment

Jan (left) with his favourite small donkey in the "down" position; on the photograph, it is apparent that the donkey's owner is looking in disbelief at the scene.

Jan riding a donkey

Small mosque in Jericho

Jerusalem - entrance to Pilate's house where Jesus was sentenced to death

Jerusalem - panoramic view from the Mount of Olives

Yet another ancient building somewhere around Haifa

Another ancient monument in the vicinity of Haifa

Ancient buildings around Nazareth. Jan is standing on the far left

Jan, far right

Sunset at a beach in Jaffa with an ancient Christian shrine and fortress on a stony outcrop dominating the landscape

The Seven Sisters road turns near Jerusalem

Jordan, the biblical river

Members of the Desert Guard in Palestina

A typical Palestinian villager with a plough

Nomads' camels

During his travels, Jan would never miss a chance to learn about and depict different peoples and cultures

On a boat leaving Palestina. Jan, on the right

Miroslav Bouček with his mother

Miroslav Bouček during the studies, picking hops

Part of the Old Town in Alexandria, Egypt

The pyramids in Giza

A port in the Suez Canal