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  • Fanzoj gunsmiths, a famiily business from 1790.
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  • Tafraout, between the desert and the Atlas mountains.
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  • Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Iguanas, especially in Juchitàn, ia a symbolic animal for religion, tradition and also a very popular food. 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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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre). Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week. The “fariseos” interpretes the part of “spanish”, the Jesus Christ’s enemies. Isolated within the remote landscape of the formidabile and spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) live more than 50.000 Tarahumaras, the first largest Indian people of Norhern Mexico that call themselves Raramuri, “runners”, for thier ability to run long distances. Many Tarahumaras live in caves and log cabins, down in the canyon in winter and in the highlands in summer. They still retain strong traditions, today menaced by increasing pressure from increasing desertification and drug trafficants. Still today, the most importan event is the Holy Week, celebrated for days with a unique religious synchretism of Catholicism and traditional worship.
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  • Quintana Roo: Playa del Carmen, 5° Avenida.
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  • Ake, one of the few henequén processing plants still working.
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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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  • Control Rooms of Miraflores Locks are protected inside deep tunnels. Every lock weighs 720 tons.
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  • Holy Week. Holy  Thursday, San Francisco procession. 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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  • 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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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre): Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • Trym Johansen, a fisherman, on his boat near Honningsvag Harbour, on the island of Magerøya, the North Cape island.
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  • Norbert Francis Attard in his Gozo studio. Attard is an an installation artist with an international reputation working in several disciplines such as painting, printing, sculpture, video and photography. His work combines social, cultural and political aspects together with overlays of scientific and religious themes, always using unorthodox materials, his creations constantly manifest a constant architect's disciplined eye for detail..Born in Malta in 1951, Attard now works from o.
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  • Norbert Francis Attard in his Gozo studio. Attard is an an installation artist with an international reputation working in several disciplines such as painting, printing, sculpture, video and photography. His work combines social, cultural and political aspects together with overlays of scientific and religious themes, always using unorthodox materials, his creations constantly manifest a constant architect's disciplined eye for detail..Born in Malta in 1951, Attard now works from o.
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  • Hangzhou: Wuzhen water town.
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  • Yacov Kaszemacher, french born fom polish family, a hassidim artist an photographer living in Sfat. The city  is the center of Jewhish mysticism, Kabbalah, and one of 4 holy cities of Israel. 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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  • Situated on mount Keenan, Sfat, also Tzfat or Safed, the highest Israel's city is the center of Jewhish mysticism, Kabbalah, and one of 4 holy cities of Israel.
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  • Puerto Montt, fish market of Angelmò, one of the most traditionals of the country.
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  • Holy Week. Holy  Thursday, San Francisco procession. 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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  • Fanzoj gunsmiths, a famiily business from 1790.
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  • Fanzoj gunsmiths, a famiily business from 1790.
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  • Daniela Fanzoy, vice president and creative manager of Fanzoj gunsmiths, a famiily business from 1790.
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  • Durango, “La Joya” ranch, once owned by John Wayne, utilised for many western movies. The western train of John Wayne.
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  • Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Iguanas, especially in Juchitàn, ia a symbolic animal for religion, tradition and also a very popular food. 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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  • 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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  • Day of the Dead celebrations. 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.
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  • Oaxaca: Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead: the “Huehuentones”, performing the souls coming back, dance and plays in the streets and inside 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.
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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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  • Day of the Dead, Janitzio island, band performing for, "Los Angelitos",  the children 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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  • Sinaloa, El Fuerte colonial town once was a hub for the convoys coming from the mines of the Sierra Madre.
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  • Nusatupo. Kunas are still a matriarchal society, and daughters are prized because, when they marry the husband contributes his wife’s labour pool.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez.. Arturo, the village’s most known herbolist, treats the diseases with traditional herbs.
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  • Oscar, one of the most renowned painters of Diablos Rojos, the Red Devils, the roaring multi-colored creatively painted buses that dominate Panamà City streets. One of most unique aspects of Panamà City, a true cultural experience, is a fleet of buses traditionally called diablos rojos, red devils, school buses creatively transformed into works of art by their owners in a folkloric style. 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. In 2003 the red devils (two percent of all vehicles) caused 14 percent of traffic accidents. 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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  • Sinaloa, El Fuerte colonial town once was a hub for the convoys coming from the mines of the Sierra Madre.
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  • Durango, “La Joya” ranch, once owned by John Wayne, utilised for many western movies. The western train of John Wayne.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations, the village's market. 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.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Day of the Dead: theMazatec Indians coming at cemetery the afternoon before the celebration. 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.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre). Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week. The "fariseos" interprete the part of Jesus Christ's enemies. Isolated within the remote landscape of the formidabile and spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) live more than 50.000 Tarahumaras, the first largest Indian people of Norhern Mexico that call themselves Raramuri. They still retain strong traditions, today menaced by increasing pressure from increasing desertification and drug trafficants. Still today, the most importan event is the Holy Week, celebrated for days with a unique religious synchretism of Catholicism and traditional worship.
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  • Huautla de Jimenez. Don Crescencio, a well-known local shaman.
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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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  • 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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  • Traditional coppersmith.
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  • Charros waiting for a “charreada”, the mexican rodeo. Today many charros are affluent professionals that loves the tradition.
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  • Mayan village holiday, procession.
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  • Ake, one of the few henequén processing plants still working.
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  • Campeche. Becàl, the village home of the famous jipi-japa Panama hat. All these hats are made in caves, something that every family has on their property. The shop Artesania Becalera.
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  • Baluarte de San Juan (Puerta de Tierra).
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  • Traditional coppersmith.
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  • 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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  • Parma. Luca Pioli, owner of "Parma Color Viola" shop selling the Borsari 1870 collection. The perfume Violetta di Parma owes its very existence to Marie Louise and her love of this flower. She supported research by the monks at the Monastery of the Annunciata who obtained an essence from the flowers, identical to that of the violet. The first bottles of Violetta di Parma, produced thanks to the alchemic skills of the monks, were made solely for the personal use of the Duchess Maria Luigia. In 1870 Lodovico Borsari obtained from the monks the secret formula for the preparation of this perfume and started producing it for a wider audience. The perfume is still sold today under the brand Collezione Borsari.
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  • Gomez Palacio, the village of Mapimì.
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  • Trym Johansen, a fisherman, with a giant King Crab on his boat near Honningsvag. First introduced to the Barents Sea off northern Russia in the 1960s, red king crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) are now spilling down western Norway by the millions. Some fishing communities in northern Norway say the crab, among the largest in the world, has already had a devastating impact. <br />
Others welcome the red king crab, saying its delicious taste and size make it an extremely lucrative catch.
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  • Trym Johansen, a fisherman, on his boat near Honningsvag Harbour, on the island of Magerøya, the North Cape island.
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  • Trym Johansen, a fisherman, with a giant King Crab on his boat near Honningsvag. First introduced to the Barents Sea off northern Russia in the 1960s, red king crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) are now spilling down western Norway by the millions. Some fishing communities in northern Norway say the crab, among the largest in the world, has already had a devastating impact. <br />
Others welcome the red king crab, saying its delicious taste and size make it an extremely lucrative catch.
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  • Chiriquì Province, Boquete.
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  • The owner of 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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  • 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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  • La Ceiba
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  • La Ceiba: Garifuna village of Corozal.
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  • Make-up, red with black streaks characterises demons.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Make-up, red with black streaks characterises demons.
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  • Holy Week. Good Friday, Escuela de Cristo church procession.
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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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  • shoemaker
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  • Nusatupo Indian Kuna village. No outsiders (waga) are allowed to live on the islands.
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  • Manenè:  the last Indian Emberà village near rio Balsa before “No man’s land” near Colombia’s border. Only 3 policemen protects the area. The Darién Gap is Panama's Bermuda Triangle, a mystery zone between North and South America where also the Pan-American Highway dead-ends. Panama has nearly no control over the border with neighboring Colombia, making the Gap a dangerous place, a refuge for outlaws, narcos (drug smugglers), Colombia’s guerrillas of FARC and their ultra-rightist enemies, the paramilitaries. The violent contest between between these two groups constitutes the biggest threat to the small Indian communities living inside the Darien National Park. Also the increasing influx of Panamanian farmers has doubled the population, and any tree of the rainforest is in danger of being cut down or burned.
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  • Durango, “La Joya” ranch, once owned by John Wayne, utilised for many western movies. The western train of John Wayne.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre). Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week. The “fariseos” interpretes the part of “spanish”, the Jesus Christ’s enemies. Isolated within the remote landscape of the formidabile and spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) live more than 50.000 Tarahumaras, the first largest Indian people of Norhern Mexico that call themselves Raramuri, “runners”, for thier ability to run long distances. Many Tarahumaras live in caves and log cabins, down in the canyon in winter and in the highlands in summer. They still retain strong traditions, today menaced by increasing pressure from increasing desertification and drug trafficants. Still today, the most importan event is the Holy Week, celebrated for days with a unique religious synchretism of Catholicism and traditional worship.
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  • Iquitos, Puerto Belén, a village of wooden huts raised above the water on stilts or floating on rafts, called “The Venice of the Peruvian Jungle”. Hairdressing.
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  • Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Iguana, especially in Juchitàn, is a symbolic animal for religion, tradition and also a very popular food. 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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  • Day of the Dead celebrations, the village's market. 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.
    actos de fe-24.jpg
  • Holy Week. Holy  Thursday, San Francisco procession. 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.
    actos de fe-12.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • Tafraout, Illigh: many inhabitants are descendants of African slaves.
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  • Olinda. The city is now like a Greenwich village of Recife.
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  • Day of the Dead celebrations. 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.
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  • Tierra del Fuego, Puerto Williams, Ukika.Ermelinda, one of the last descendants of Yamanas Indians that once lives near Cape Horns.
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  • According to tradition, St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus, landed at India's Malabar Coast, in the year 52, and founded 7 churches before he was martyred in Mylapore. St Thomas converted several local Hindu families to Christianity. The present church was rebuilt in 1900 on the same site of the church founded by St Thomas. The people of Kokkamangalam venerate St. Thomas as their patron.
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  • Matancherry's Jew street, traditional storehouses utilised from centuries for pepper and others spices trade.
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  • Yaviza, only a small bridge announces that you have reached the famous Darièn’s Gap where stops the Panamerican Higway. The Darién Gap is Panama's Bermuda Triangle, a mystery zone between North and South America. Panama has nearly no control over the border with neighboring Colombia, making the Gap a dangerous place, a refuge for outlaws, narcos (drug smugglers), Colombia’s guerrillas of FARC and their ultra-rightist enemies, the paramilitaries. The violent contest between between these two groups constitutes the biggest threat to the small Indian communities living inside the Darien National Park. Also the increasing influx of Panamanian farmers has doubled the population, and any tree of the rainforest is in danger of being cut down or burned.
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  • Manenè:  the last Indian Emberà village near rio Balsa before “No man’s land” near Colombia’s border. Only 3 policemen protects the area. The Darién Gap is Panama's Bermuda Triangle, a mystery zone between North and South America where also the Pan-American Highway dead-ends. Panama has nearly no control over the border with neighboring Colombia, making the Gap a dangerous place, a refuge for outlaws, narcos (drug smugglers), Colombia’s guerrillas of FARC and their ultra-rightist enemies, the paramilitaries. The violent contest between between these two groups constitutes the biggest threat to the small Indian communities living inside the Darien National Park. Also the increasing influx of Panamanian farmers has doubled the population, and any tree of the rainforest is in danger of being cut down or burned.
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  • Each indigenous Kuna village is headed by a saila (chef) who presides the meetings to resolve local problems. Here is Ricardo Hernandez saila  of Nusatupo.
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  • Nusatupo Indian Kuna village. No outsiders (waga) are allowed to live on the islands.
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  • Atitlàn lake: Santiago Atitlàn village.
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  • Atitlàn lake: Santiago Atitlàn village.
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  • Atitlàn lake: Santiago Atitlàn village.
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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, early morning procession departs from La Merced.The roman governor, Pilate. 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. The cucuruchos, thousands of penitents in deep purple robes accompanies daily religious processions. 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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  • Doña Maria Gordillo, the oldest cake shop of the city.
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  • Gomez Palacio, the last miner of old Mapimì rich mine, don Agustin Ayala.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre): Chihuahua al Pacifico scenic railway, between Los Mochis and Chihuahua.
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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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