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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Mexico: Chiapas. Collective marriage in a Tojolabal small village.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Oxchùc, church of Santo Tomàs, where maya tzeltales still honour the old gods with ceremonies performed by traditional religious autoridades.
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  • San José Cholul. A old henequen hacienda, now a luxury hotel.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • Parque Central, the main square.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery.
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  • Deira, new skyline.
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  • Traditional covered souq of Bur Dubai.
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  • South Bank
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  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise, with candles, food and drinks for the souls. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
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  • Oxchùc, church of Santo Tomàs, where maya tzeltales still honour the old gods with ceremonies performed by traditional religious autoridades.
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  • Campeche. Baluarte de San Juan (Puerta de Tierra). Son et Lumière of colonial times.
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  • Campeche, Parque Central, the main plaza.
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  • Chichicastenango: religious Mayan ceremonies inside Santo Tomàs church.
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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.
    em0510271.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    em0510236.jpg
  • 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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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Don Crescencio, a well-known local shaman.
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  • Zinacantàn village, Francisco, the most important curandero of the village. He cures illness by ritual and herbal methods.
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  • Merida, Peòn Contreras theatre.
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  • Merida, Palacio del Ayuntamiento, Town Hall.
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  • Ex-hacienda Santa Rosa, in the heart of mayan Yucatàn. Now Santa Rosa is a luxury hotel.
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  • Ex-hacienda Santa Rosa, in the heart of mayan Yucatàn. Now Santa Rosa is a luxury hotel.
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  • Cathedral of the Concepcion.
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  • Puerta del Mar, against pirates attacks.
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  • Baluarte de San Juan (Puerta de Tierra).
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  • Baluarte de San Juan (Puerta de Tierra).
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Miraflores Locks, where the ships are lowered to the Pacific level. Electric locomotives (mulas mecanicas) works 24 hours.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611123.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611105.jpg
  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
    em0110507.jpg
  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
    em3500026.jpg
  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Make-up, the radical transformation of the human face intended to transport one into the distant realm of the imaginery.
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  • Dubai Creek, 24 hours for day thousands of abra, traditional water taxi connect the 11 km of this traditional trading hearth.
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  • Canary Wharf Skyline from West India Quay.
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  • Canary Wharf financial district.
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  • St Paul Cathedral and Millenium Bridge
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  • Underground near South Bank Centre
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market open till late night.
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  • Tangier,  the old city, medina's market.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead: theMazatec Indians coming at cemetery the afternoon before the celebration.
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  • Miraflores Locks, where the ships are lowered to the Pacific level. Electric locomotives (mulas mecanicas) work 24 hours.
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  • Panamà City. Marbella's skyscrapers dominate the new skyline of this bustling metropolis where more than one-third of the country’s population lives.
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  • Panama City. Casinò.
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  • Merida, Palacio del Ayuntamiento, Town Hall.
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  • Temozòn ex-hacienda. The pool, on the back the old henequen factory. Now Temozòn is a luxury hotel.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • Quetzaltenango: San Juan Ostuncalco, fiesta of San Juan Bautista.
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  • Quetzaltenango: San Juan Ostuncalco, fiesta of San Juan Bautista.
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  • Quetzaltenango: San Juan Ostuncalco, fiesta of San Juan Bautista.
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  • Chichicastenango: religious Mayan ceremonies inside Santo Tomàs church.
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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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  • 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.
    em0110250.jpg
  • 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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  • Palacio del Ayuntamiento, Town Hall (1743).
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  • Gomez Palacio, the last miner of old Mapimì rich mine, don Agustin Ayala.
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  • Puerto San Juliàn.
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  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise, with candles, food and drinks for the souls. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an ?oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,? is one of Mexico's most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro's lake was thought to be an important entrance to the ?Inframundo? - the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo's doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
    em0213000.jpg
  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an ?oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,? is one of Mexico's most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
    em0212970.jpg
  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an ?oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,? is one of Mexico's most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
    em0212962.jpg
  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an ?oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,? is one of Mexico's most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
    em0212958.jpg
  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island church. Food for the souls without relatives.  The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
    em0212909.jpg
  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise the following day. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
    em0212904.jpg
  • Juchitàn, Vela San Vicente Ferrer. The tehuanas are the archetype of an ancient and legendary Mexico, told in the murales of Diego Rivera and impersonated also by Frida Kalho that often wore these traditional dresses. But these showy dresses, and the rich golden ornaments that accompany them, are above all an instrument of auto-representatiom for these active women which the control of the local markets confers an independent economic power that is reflected in the self confidence. Even in the development of the festivities, where the women often dance a lot among them while the men remain seated watching.
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  • Juchitàn, Vela San Vicente Ferrer. The tehuanas are the archetype of an ancient and legendary Mexico, told in the murales of Diego Rivera and impersonated also by Frida Kalho that often wore these traditional dresses. But these showy dresses, and the rich golden ornaments that accompany them, are above all an instrument of auto-representatiom for these active women which the control of the local markets confers an independent economic power that is reflected in the self confidence. Even in the development of the festivities, where the women often dance a lot among them while the men remain seated watching.
    em0214189.jpg
  • Goreme. Open Air Museum, Tokali Kilise.
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  • Avanos, Saruhan Kervanseray.
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  • Kaymakli  underground city.
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  • Kaymakli  underground city.
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  • Kaymakli  underground city.
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  • Deira, immigrant workers waiting any evening their wage near Dubai Creek.
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  • Marina Dubai, the strip of new hotels and the most recent expansion of the city.
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  • Sky Dubai, the third indoor ski of the world. Is a real imini ski resort in the middle of the derert, with a surface of 22.500 mq , inside the Mall of The Emirates. A cavern of ice with a dragon also of ice.
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  • Greenwich, Royal Naval College with Queen's House, masterpiece of Christopher Wren
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  • St Paul Cathedral and Millenium Bridge
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  • View from Tower Bridge. In the back  Canary Wharf skyline.
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  • Tower Bridge
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  • Puerto Montt, traditional iron and wooden houses iìof Southern Chile.
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  • Castro. Founded in 1567 , it’s the third-oldest city in Chile.
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  • Green make-up (paccha) is for noble and pious characters. Conical shaped headgear is for Lord Rama, Khrisna and their sons.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611061.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611051.jpg
  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise, with candles, food and drinks for the souls. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
    em0212994.jpg
  • Day of the Dead celebrations are held in veneration of the dead from sunset until sunrise the following day with candlelight in the cemetery. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide. Far away from more well-traveled tourist routes, in a Sierrra Madre mountain village near Oaxaca, women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive. In Huautla de Jimenez local Mazatec Indians still meet their long-gone friends and family in the graveyard, celebrating along with Huehuetones, mysterious masked figures representing the visiting souls from the Underworld.
    em0212952.jpg
  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, the cemetery. The celebrations are held from sunset until sunrise the following day. The Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), recently declared by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” is one of Mexico’s most cherished traditions, celebrated in cities and villages countrywide, but perhaps nowhere moreso than in the state of Michoacan. During prehispanic times, Patzcuaro’s lake was thought to be an important entrance to the “Inframundo” – the Indian Underworld. During Dia de Muertos, the Inframundo’s doors open, and the souls of the departed return to earth to visit their earth-bound family and friends. At night in the small graveyard on Janitzio Island, illuminated only by a sea of candles, Purepecha women speak quietly with beloved departed souls at graves adorned with offerings of food, candies, liquor, cigarettes, evertything their dead  enjoyed while alive.
    em0212912.jpg
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