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  • Shibam, a children with a gun toy. The children familiarise early with guns. Declared Unesco World Heritage, this old city on the incense road is called the "Manhattan of the desert" and is one of the most celebrated Arabic Islamic cities built in traditional style. A collection of nearly 500 skyscrapers built with mud bricks and 5-7 stores high.
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  • Cleja village, Klèsza in Hungarian, school of Hungarian for the children.
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  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
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  • Cleja village, Klèsza in Hungarian, school of Hungarian for the children.
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  • Seidnaya. Seidnaya's monastery, many Syria's christians comes to Seidnaya to baptise their children. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Torcello island, the eleventh and 12th century Church of Santa Fosca, which is surrounded by a porticus in form of a Greek cross. In the back the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Chiapas, Acteal. Anniversario del massacro avvenuto il 22 dicembre 1997, quando i paramilitari fecero letteralmente a pezzi quarantacinque campesinos maya, appartenenti al gruppo pacifista di Las Abejas, le Api, vecchi, donne e bambini compresi.
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  • The creatively painted Diablos Rojos bus (Red Devils) every day still travel the streets of Panamà with their low fares. This fleet of school buses, creatively transformed into works of art by their owners, are a unique aspect of Panamà City, a true cultural experience. Many buses have paintings of religious icons, pop culture heroes, actresses, sport stars, politicians. The drivers choose their own routes and on the front of the bus is usually painted the destination. Music at high volume, poor ventilation and lack of security transform the buses in a uncomfortable transport system. Panamà’s governement is trying the put end to the legend of Diablos Rojos but Panamà expresses its popular culture through the bus painting, in the way murals do for other cities, so this expression of popular art could end in few years.
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  • Mevlana Museum. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. The small villages scattered along the Ucayali river wait for Tucàn for any kind of merchandise and to sell their products.
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  • Nile Delta. Pilgrimage to St Damiana monastery, between el Mansoura and Damietta, is one of the most important for Egyptian coptics.
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  • Sanliurfa (Urfa), the "Prophets City",  is the  ancient Edessa of Alexander the Great, the crusaders and Byzantine Empire.  The city distinctly Middle Eastern flavour is mainly in the jumble of narrow streets of the 16th century bazaar. the old bedensten of Gumruk Hani, the customs dept, now is a courtyard full oof merchants.
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  • Morro de São Paulo, harbour.
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  • Olinda. The preparations for the Carnival begin many months before the event as elaborate costumes are designed and produced over a period of months. Silvio Botelho’s bonecos, puppets.
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  • The preparations for the Carnival begin many months before the event as elaborate costumes are designed and produced over a period of months. Carnaval, that many think is the best in Brazil, is still a street mass event involving almost the entire population.
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  • The colonial district of Pelourinho. Street life.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • Olinda. The city is now like a Greenwich village of Recife.
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  • Bastia. Vieux Port, the old harbour.
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  • Nusatupo Indian Kuna village. No outsiders (waga) are allowed to live on the islands.
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  • Cotopaxi, Lacatunga. Landscapes between Tingua and Zumbahua
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  • Holy Week. Good Friday. The most spectacular Holy Week throughout Latin America, a sort of time machine to find an ancient Spain, where roman soldiers with the faces of Maya peasants interpret for days a choral rite alive in the collective memory as a matter of chronicle. In theatrical scenery of Antigua, between colonial palaces and Baroque churches uncovered by frequent earthquakes and eruptions of nearby volcanoes, processions come one after the other in an increasingly spasmodic crescendo until Holy Friday. From dawn to sunset for thousands of penitents, curucuchos rigorously dressed in purple, is a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders heavy groups of statues with Jesus Christ, God, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth ? Mexico City.
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  • Cleja, Klèsza in Hungarian, traditional csango dresses. Their symbols send back to the Far East mandalas and represent the sun and earth, the water symbol of the life, the river, the stars.
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  • Students of religious school playing near Citadel.
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  • Tzfat. Many doors are painted in blue, the colour of heaven. Tzfat, Israel’s highest city in upper Galilee, is one of the 4 holy cities of Israel with Jerusalem, Tiberias and Hebron. Perhaps this proximity to the heaven, blue like the colour of the doorways in the cobbled passages, accounts for its reputation as the "Capital of Kabbalah", the Jewish mystical tradition. The Kabbalistic wisdom, the oldest in the history of mankind, investigates and explains the codes of universe and for thousands of years very few Jewish mystics knew the secrets of Kabbalah. For many centuries Tzfat has been the home of masters of Kabbalah and after their expulsion from Spain in 1492 many jews arrived in Tzfat, seeking refuge in tolerant Ottoman Empire, attracting the best scholars of Kabbalah. The Tzfat’s modern-day mystics come from different background, descendants of traditional rabbis but also baalei t’shuva, “masters of return” turned to Hasidic Judaism after a life in a agnostic background.
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  • Puerto Montt, fish market of Angelmò, one of the most traditionals of the country.
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  • Castro. Founded in 1567 , it’s the third-oldest city of Chile.
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  • Trancoso, the Quadrado, the colonial main square built when the Gesuits founded the mission.
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  • Quebrada di Humahuaca, Purcamarca. The Quebrada de Humahuaca, a narrow mountain valley located in the province of Jujuy in northwest Argentina, it is about 155 kilometres long, bordered by the Altiplano in the west and north, by the Sub-Andean hills in the east, and by the warm valleys (Valles Templados) in the south. The name quebrada (literally "broken") translates as a deep valley or ravine. <br />
This region has always been a economic, social and cultural crossroad,  populated for 10,000 years. It was a caravan road for the Inca Empire in the 15th century, then an important link between the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and the Viceroyalty of Peru. The Quebrada de Humahuaca has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2 July 2003.
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  • Highlands (puna) of Jujuy north-west area. Every year the salineros (salt mine workers) meet for the Salias Grandes Festival. Salinas Grandes salt mines built into the flat, dry highlands of the Argentine northwest, where work 100-200 salineros (salt mine workers). Covering 212 square km are the third salt mines of the world, after Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) and Salar de Arizaro (Salta).
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  • Guaranì Indian community of Guavirà-Poty near San Pedro. Cornelio, cacique (the community's leader) with his son. In the back a solar panel. Many communities look for alternative energies due to the lack and costs of electricity. There are almost 90 Mbya Guarani communities in the province of Misiones. The guaranì, one of the most important tribal groups of South America, are best known for their connection to the early Jesuit missions (1609-1767). For the Guarani, land is the origin of all life, but invasions by ranchers have devastated their territory and nearly all of their land has been stolen.
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  • Dakar, hospital. With climate change droughts happewn more and more.
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  • Unrwa Jabalia refugee camp. School.
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  • Azadi Tower (Borj-e Azadi). The inverted-Y-shaped Azadi Tower, built in 1971 to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the first Persian empire, is one of Tehran's visual icons. Designed by Hossein Amanat, it ingeniously combines modern architecture with traditional Iranian influences, most notably the iwan-style of the arch, which is clad in 8000 pieces of white marble.
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  • Azadi Tower (Borj-e Azadi). The inverted-Y-shaped Azadi Tower, built in 1971 to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the first Persian empire, is one of Tehran's visual icons. Designed by Hossein Amanat, it ingeniously combines modern architecture with traditional Iranian influences, most notably the iwan-style of the arch, which is clad in 8000 pieces of white marble.
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  • Azadi Tower (Borj-e Azadi). The inverted-Y-shaped Azadi Tower, built in 1971 to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the first Persian empire, is one of Tehran's visual icons. Designed by Hossein Amanat, it ingeniously combines modern architecture with traditional Iranian influences, most notably the iwan-style of the arch, which is clad in 8000 pieces of white marble.
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  • Azadi Tower (Borj-e Azadi). The inverted-Y-shaped Azadi Tower, built in 1971 to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the first Persian empire, is one of Tehran's visual icons. Designed by Hossein Amanat, it ingeniously combines modern architecture with traditional Iranian influences, most notably the iwan-style of the arch, which is clad in 8000 pieces of white marble.
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  • Nile Delta. Pilgrimage to St Damiana monastery, between el Mansoura and Damietta, is one of the most important for Egyptian coptics.
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  • Nile river. A boat for Qanater dams where Nile River Delta begins.
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  • San Juan Chamula, the cemetery and the old church, a construction of conquistadores time.
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  • Indian young farmer in Mexico City agricoltural area. More than 400.000 Indians live in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth — Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to have ties to their homes so strong that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages.
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  • The Coras are a small Indigenous people living in the Sierra Madre mountains of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Coras still follows their traditions, protecting in a strong way their secret rites that anthropologists believe amongst the most interesting of Latin America for their synchretism. The ceremonies for the Holy Week are characterized by impressive ceremonies. The Judios paints their bodies simbolysing the Evil forces and struggles in the streets of the villages looking for Jesus.
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  • Città del Messico. Una vedova Otomì emigrata dall’altipiano mostra la foto del suo matrimonio.
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  • Chiapas, Oxchuc.
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  • refugees
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  • Old City, Western Wall.
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  • Chichicastenango: religious Mayan ceremonies on the steps of Santo Tomàs church.
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  • Plauen, a mining city of Thuringia (DDR) near the wall with West Germany. .
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  • Acteàl (Chenalho), commemorative ceremony of "Las Abeyas", surviving maya of the massacre by paramilitary groups, December 22, 1997.
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  • Acteàl (Chenalho), commemorative ceremony of "Las Abeyas", surviving maya of the massacre by paramilitary groups, December 22, 1997.
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  • Acteàl (Chenalho), commemorative ceremony of "Las Abeyas", surviving maya of the massacre by paramilitary groups, December 22, 1997.
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  • Acteàl (Chenalho), commemorative ceremony of "Las Abeyas", surviving maya of the massacre by paramilitary groups, December 22, 1997.
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  • refugees
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  • traditional mayan life in Altos de Chiapas.
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  • Mayan refugees.
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  • Mayan refugees.
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  • Acteàl (Chenalho), commemorative ceremony of "Las Abeyas", surviving maya of the massacre by paramilitary groups, December 22, 1997.
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  • Real de Catorce, once a rich city surrounded by mines is now a ghost town with few inhabitants.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre. Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre): Tarahumaras, or Raramuris as they call themselveses, are the most important indian people of northern Mexico.
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  • St. Paul Coptic monastery nestled in the mountains near  the Red Sea, built upon the cave where lived the first hermit, St Paul. Coptic pilgrims coming from Upper Egypt.
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  • St. Paul Coptic monastery nestled in the mountains near  the Red Sea, built upon the cave where lived the first hermit, St Paul. Coptic pilgrims coming from Upper Egypt.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the “living stones” as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • City center. The Aztecs sculptures are often incorporated in Spanish colonial buildings.
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  • Edznà, Temple of Five Levels.
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  • Safranbolu, Izzet Pasha Camii, a mosque built in 1796. Safranbolu has a beautifully preserved collection of old Ottoman houses and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. During the 17th century Safranbolu was on the main Ottoman trade road between Gerede and the Black Sea harbours, bringing commerce and wealth to the town. During 18th and 19th centuries wealthy inhabitants built mansions of sun-dried mud bricks, wood and stucco.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Uum Kholtoum singer has been the most popular and beloved singer of all the Arab World. His portraits are everywhere, here in front of al-Hussein mosque.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Coptic jewellery in sharia an-Nahaseen.
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  • Nile river. On friday many boats transport people for holiday sightseeing to Qanater dam where Nile River Delta begins.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Uum Kholtoum singer has been the most popular and beloved singer of all the Arab World. His portraits are everywhere, here in front of al-Hussein mosque, with Sadat, Nasser and saudi King.
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  • Tierra del Fuego, Puerto Williams, the southernmost village of the world. Simon y Simon shop where all 2000 inhabitants meets.
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  • Tierra del Fuego, Puerto Williams, the southernmost village of the world. Simon y Simon shop where all 2000 inhabitants meets.
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  • Mardin, a beautiful ancient town of honey coloured stone houses overlooking the vast Mesopotamian plains extending to Syria. Girls of a madrasa, Coranic school.
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  • Students of religious school playing near Citadel.
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  • Morro de São Paulo.
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  • Trancoso, the Quadrado, the colonial main square built when the Gesuits founded the mission, with colonial church.
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  • refugees
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  • Guanaja, the easternmost of the three Bay Islands. Bonacca, the small capital known as the “Venice of Honduras”. Every inch of the cay has been built on.
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  • Malin Head, the northernmost point of Ireland.
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  • Mexicos’s most populous Indian community, a mosaic of more than 400.000, lives in a most unexpected place, in the heart of the one of the largest megalopoli on earth, Mexico City. Tenaciously clinging to to ancient traditions, they continue to weave dreams and make plans difficult to undertand by  those part of their world. The ties to their homes are so strong, that some researchers define these urban groups as “embassies” for their distant villages...that form, in many ways, a different world. This Indian world of the city is a subterranean universe, often hidden behind the annonymous doorway of some rundown colonial mansion.
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  • Rosario islands.
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  • Rosario islands.
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  • Sta Teresa del Nayar (Nayarit). At the sunrise, near the house of Black Centurion, the “borrados” (the painted men) prepares vegetal colours with ash and honey. Coras are a small indigenous people living scattered in the mountains of Sierra Madre Central in Mexican state of Nayarit. The Coras still follows their traditions, protecting in a strong way their secret rites, that anthropologists believe the most interesting of Central America for their synchretism. The Holy Week, the most important religious event of the year, is characterized with impressive ceremonies. The catholic priest doesn’t partecipate and the Black Centurion is the captain of Judea, the “Jews”, the devil’s militia looking for Jesus Christ to kill him. Violence is a essential part of the ceremonies and somebody can be killed in the struggles with wood swords.
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  • Canaima Nat. Park
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  • The preparations for the Carnival begin many months before the event as elaborate costumes are designed and produced over a period of months. Carnaval, that many think is the best in Brazil, is still a street mass event involving almost the entire population.
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  • Caraiva. This small fishermen village has no road and his connected only by small boats.
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  • Olinda. The city is now like a Greenwich village of Recife.
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  • Olinda: Carnaval: Silvio Botelho’s bonecos, puppets.
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  • Bahia: church of Santo Antonio do Carmo.
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  • Bahia: church of Santo Antonio do Carmo.
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  • The preparations for the Carnival begin many months before the event as elaborate costumes are designed and produced over a period of months. Carnaval, that many think is the best in Brazil, is still a street mass event involving almost the entire population.
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  • The preparations for the Carnival begin many months before the event as elaborate costumes are designed and produced over a period of months. Carnaval, that many think is the best in Brazil, is still a street mass event involving almost the entire population.
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  • Salvador / Bahia: the traditional district of Santo Antonio do Carmo.
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  • The Carnaval, that many think is the best in Brazil, is still a street mass event involving almost the entire population. One of the oldest and loved afoxés (“blocos”) is Filhos de Gandhi (“Sons of Gandhi”).
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  • San Ignacio, school at  Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout.
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  • Old City
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  • Carnaval. Maracatù naçao. Maracatù groups, unique to Pernambuco, are mainly black and wear bright costumes.
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  • Wadi Rum,Beduin family. Wadi Rum is the largest wadi in Jordan, is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southwest Jordan. Wadi Rum has been inhabited by many human cultures since prehistoric times,  leaving their mark in the form of rock paintings, graffiti. Several Bedouin tribes inhabit the area.<br />
Wadi Rum is known also for its connection with British officer T. E. Lawrence, who based his operations here during the Arab Revolt of 1917–18.
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