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retlaw snellac posted a photo: Musician in Zanskar.

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Eric Lafforgue posted a photo: Kibbish is a many touristic place in a Surma / suri aera. It's a small village nearby Kibbish river, and this is additionally a place where many of a tv shows with tribal people have been shot: Tribe with BBC Bruce Parry, and Bienvenue dans ma Tribu from TF1 french channel. So people are asking outrageous amounts of income for anything.. This is far from a touristic buses that revisit Mursi upon a alternative side of Omo river, though a few tourists who go there are astounded by a internal mood... Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

fredcan posted the photo: My aged crony has only left for India this evening. Bon voyage, Steph!

Frans Harren posted the photo: Church of Saint Ildefonso The Igreja de Santo Ildefonso is an 18th century church in Porto, Portugal, situated circuitously Batalha Square. Completed in 1739, the church was built in the proto-Baroque character as well as facilities the retable by the Italian artist Nicolau Nasoni as well as the faade of azulejo tilework. The church is spoken in honour of the Visigoth Ildephonsus of Toledo, bishop of Toledo from 657 until his death in 667. History Prior to the office building of the Church of Saint Ildefonso, the chapel, well well known as Santo Alifon, stood upon the site. Its office building the total date is unknown, though multiform early texts discuss the existence. The earliest well well known anxiety to the site as well as the original church is in the work by the bishop of Porto, Vicente Mendes, dated 1296. The elderly chapel, in danger of collapsing, was demolished in 1709, as well as office building the total began upon the new church which y

Eric Lafforgue posted the photo: I stopped on the highway when i saw the single girl. This girl. I proposed to make pictures, as well as suddenly, 1,2,3,4, girls appeared around me: they were sleeping underneath blankets as well as i did not guess they were there! This lady is from the pastoralist clan called Karayu, who live near Nazreth, south of Addis. They used to live in the pacific place, prior to the thousands of trucks who expostulate from Djibouti to Addis came to bring everything Ethiopia needs! The girls have been really nice, like the Afar clan ones. But behind the wonderful smile, the hold up of those genealogical girls starts with the nightmare: according to the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey, some-more than 74 per cent of women between the ages of 15 as well as 49 have undergone some form of genital mutilation as well as cutting...Parents hold the practice will pledge the immature girls virginity the exigency for an fair marriage... Eric Lafforgue www.eri

c6 cowboy posted the photo: Following the long week of work in Corozal, Maddie as well as I hopped the Tropic Air moody to St. Elena, Guatemala to try Lake Peten Itza as well as the ruins of Tikal for multiform days. The first day there you outlayed visiting the pleasing encampment of Flores, which is the most developed town in northern Guatemala. We were able to sinecure the internal boatsman to take us around the lake as well as as you approached Flores the fast relocating charge appeared out of the plateau which tower upon top of the lake. What held my eye in this picture was the juxtaposition of the highlighted Catholic Church, which stands upon the highest partial of the island, looming over the villagers as the dark of the charge arrives. A good vs evil thing I theory - pleasing nonetheless. You have to see this picture upon my blog or lengthened here to do it justice....flickr just doesn't cut it upon this one. Captured with: D700, 70-200mm @ f/13, 1/200, ISO 400, 125mm.

fredcan posted the photo: Mother and daughter from Uttar-Pradesh, at the Kumbh mela festival, in haridwar. www.fredcanongephotography.com/

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Frans Harren posted a photo: Church of a Carmelites Its construction proposed in 1616 as well as was completed in 1628. The interior decoration would usually be ready in 1650. The masquerade of granite stone, has three entrances with round arches, surfaced by an equal series of niches, with statues of St. Joseph, St. Teresa as well as Our Lady of Mount Carmel in a center. The upper physique contains three vast windows, a central rectangle as well as a dual parallel trapezoid-shaped rectilinear shape. The masquerade is surfaced by a triangular stanchions. It has a bell tower upon a left, lonesome with tiles of monochromatic blue, surfaced by a dome-shaped bulb. The interior of a Church of a Carmelites is a Latin Cross devise with a singular nave with 6 side chapels as well as a narthex during a entrance. The side chapels as well as a categorical tabernacle are gilded, baroque as well as rococo. The pattern of a categorical altarpiece authored by Joachim Teixeira Guimaraes as well as

Cj Roberts posted a photo: Peculiar tree branches in a waters of Llyn (lake) Gwynant, Beddgelert. Llyn Gwynant is a lake in Snowdonia, Wales. Llyn Gwynant lies upon a River Glaslyn, in a Nant Gwynant valley, as well as is about 2 km north east of Llyn Dinas; a village of Bethania lies between them. Snowdon lies 3 km to a north west. The lake is natural, carrying been formed by glacial movement as well as is 50 hectares in size. It is a renouned place for canoeing as well as kayaking with easy access from a A498 road that runs along a south bank. It was used as a filming location in a 2003 movie 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'.

gavin.burnett posted a photo: One of a freezing warp rivers entrance off a plateau in a mount prepare national park. Aoraki/Mount Cook (70,696 hectares) is New Zealand's good alpine park. It has a highest plateau as well as a largest glaciers. Aoraki/Mount Cook Village as well as all visitors to a play ground are lilliputian by a immensity of a landscape which surrounds them. This play ground is located in a executive part of a South Island, low in a heart of a Southern Alps. Aoraki/Mount Cook encampment lies within a play ground with Twizel a nearest locale outside. twitter www.gavinburnett.com www.gavinburnett.co.uk Gavin Burnett

davidgardener posted a photo: CROATIA: A territory of a spectacular outer walls of Dubrovnik Old Town, rising above a cliffs of Dubrovnik Bay. The Walled City of Old Dubrovnik is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was badly shop-worn by Serbian forces during a 1991-95 fight though is now entirely restored.

photogon posted the photo: Portsmouth, England

Eric Lafforgue posted a photo: This child is from a encampment of Turgit, one of a nicest place in Surma territory, in a south of Ethiopia, near a sudanese border.. The access is distant from Addis Ababa, but once in a encampment we can share a real hold up of a Surma / Suri tribe. Kids are really penetrating on decorating themselves with plants, flowers, fruits...anything with splendid colours! Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

Frans Harren posted a photo: So Bento Train Station The So Bento Train Station is located in a city of Porto, in Portugal. Inaugurated in 1916, a chronological hire is well known for a tile (azulejo) panels that etch scenes of a History of Portugal. It is located in a Almeida Garret Square, in a centre of a city. History The name of a hire derives from a Benedictine monastery built upon this mark in a 16th century. The monastery fell victim of a fire in 1783, was later rebuilt, though was in a grave state of disrepair during a end of a 19th century. In a context of an expansion of a railway complement in Portuguese territory, King Carlos we laid a first stone of a hire in 1900. The project was entrusted to Porto designer Jos Marques da Silva, who designed a building under a change of French Beaux-Arts architecture. Tiles The many important aspect of So Bento Station have been a large, pretentious tile panels in a vestible. The tiles number 20 thousand, date from 1905-1916 as well as

reurinkjan posted a photo: Like to see a pictures as Large as your screen? Than because not take a Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157622436074363/s... Weather upon a Tibetan Plateau. Amdo (northeast Tibet) has huge rolling grasslands giving way to tall towering ranges as well as is home to many nomads. While Amdo is not as tall as Changtang, winter is still long as well as cold. With an normal elevation of over 3400m as well as sitting in a most northern segment of Tibet, winter can come early. Freezing temperatures have been usual by mid-Septemeber. Amdo also gets more sleet than most regions of Tibet. If you have ever seen a picture of Tibetan nomads in snow, chances have been it was taken in Amdo. Winter temperatures can simply get to -20C (-4F) as well as a tall areas of Golok Tibet Autonomous Prefecture can get to -30C. Summers have been short, yet pleasant in Amdo with temperatures getting up to 24C (75F) by mid-July (nights have been still cold though). k

Eric Lafforgue posted the photo: All along the roads in Ethiopia, you can find little bars to drink hydromel, beers, of bouna (coffee). All those shops have been hidden by large full of color hangings which have them demeanour similar to refugees camps. But for photographers, it makes some nice backgrounds! More and more, the opposite tribes from Ethiopia have been mixed, as the supervision gives many lands for free. It is droll to note the opposite welcomes which you'll receive as the photographer, upon the highway to the south: amhara have been the nicest ones, just surprised had so happy to meet foreigners, in the very extemporaneous way, offering fruits and coffee. After 3 bananas in 10 minutes, i had to give up the photo sessions! Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

TheYellowDart07 posted a photo: A 'Pictish Symbol Stone', located in Meigle Museum, Meigle, Perthshire.

N A Y E E M posted a photo: Bogdan is from Romania, he is a unchanging during a Isles Bar. The male works for a BIG shipbuilders in Chittagong, big shots you know.... Yesterday he was white though currently he's got such an incredible tan, looked similar to a coal-miner from a previous century to me.... One of a coolest guys in town. Hotel Peninsula, Chittagong.

Frans Harren posted the photo: Stronghold of Valena The fortification of Valena, the encampment upon the left bank of the river Minho, the Portuguese frontier Galicia , dates back to the transition from the twelfth to the thirteenth century. Intended to defend the encampment as well as channel that widen of river. pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pra%c3%a7a-forte_de_Valen%c3%a7a Valena Valena is the Portuguese encampment in the district of Viana do Castelo, northern segment as well as subregion of the Minho-Lima. The urban area is bounded upon the easterly by the Municipality of Mono, the south by Paredes de Coura, west by Vila Nova de Cerveira as well as northwest as well as north by Galicia (municipality of Tui). Received the licence from King Sancho we being declared Contrasta. Moved to its present name in 1262. It is infrequently referred to Valena do Minho. It became the city upon Jun 12, 2009. pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valen%c3%a7a_(Portugal)

gavin.burnett posted the photo: This is the owner of the feet with the bangles from earlier in my photostream. She was chasing monkey's that were hidden food for the wedding. Hampi, Karnataka, India. twitter www.gavinburnett.com www.gavinburnett.co.uk

reurinkjan posted a photo: Like to see a pictures as Large as your screen? Than because not click on a Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157622436074363/s... Female yaks, or dri. The nomads rely on their herds for all a basics - divert for tea, butter, cheese as well as yoghurt; dung for fuel; as well as hair as well as hide for yarn, wire as well as clothing. A poor family may have 20 yaks or fewer; wealthy family groups up to 500. Settling nomads Government process aims to solve some-more as well as some-more nomads. It says that this is aimed at mending a economic viability of animal cultivation as well as alleviation a goods of natural disasters on a livelihood of Tibetan herdsmen. This allows a supervision to conduct a winding race as it gives them bound addresses.The Chinese supervision is stealing a nomads from their normal grasslands, sometimes forcibly, to exercise some-more control over a Tibetan population. Culture shock For many nomads, a transition to

fredcan posted a photo: A pillared gymnasium heading to a single of the many pagodas, in Mandalay. A perfect place to find preserve from the midday heat as well as watch life go by. www.fredcanongephotography.com/

FromTheNorth posted a photo: The City of Arts as well as Sciences (Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Cincies, Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) is an entertainment-based cultural as well as architectural complex in a city of Valencia, Spain. It is a many important modern tourist finish in a city of Valencia. The City of a Arts as well as a Sciences is situated at a finish of a old riverbed Turia. Turia became a grassed area in 1980, after a bypass of a stream by a good inundate of Valencia in 1957. Designed by Santiago Calatrava as well as Flix Candela, a project underwent a first stages of building a whole in July, 1996 as well as a finished "city" was inaugurated Apr 16, 1998 with a opening of L'Hemisfric. The last good member of a City of a Arts as well as a Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofa, was presented in October 9, 2005, Valencian Community Day. Info from wikipedia.org

fredcan posted the photo: The dry plain of Bagan, important for the ancient temples, is still home to the couple of cattle flock communities. www.fredcanongephotography.com/

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reurinkjan posted a photo: Bayankala Watershed. Approaching Mato from Kham, Highway 214 gradually ascends by a rolling swamplands of a upper Yalong to cross Trawo la pass 5082 m in a Bayankala Range, 61 km over Domda (Ch Qingshuihe). On a proceed to a pass there are fine views of a rolling humps of a Bayankala range to a easterly of a road. After channel this watershed, a bleak expanse of high rise lakeland unfolds. Here starts a Nyag chu (Yalong) is an 1,323 kilometers (822 mile) prolonged stream in a Kham segment and originating in Trindu county upon a border with Mat county. footprintbooks.com/guidebooks/SouthAsia.cfm?ccs=76&cs...

retlaw snellac posted a photo: Ladakhi women in normal dress.

fredcan posted a photo: Unlimited creativity in Khaosan road, a Bangkok tourist ghetto. www.fredcanongephotography.com/

(Jt)... busy again! posted a photo: Today has been. we dunno. we know we haven't been in everyone's stream today. Promise we will by tonight. we have to go back to Canada for a whilst because of a little family stuff. Maybe my final post for a while. I'll visit all your things before we leave. View On Black

Frans Harren posted a photo: Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. The cathedral is a reputed burial-place of Saint James a Greater, one of a apostles of Jesus Christ. It is a destination of a Way of St. James, a vital historical event route since a Middle Ages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Santiago_de_Compostela

goddessofxanadu( busy, greatfully excuse!! ) posted a photo: Bahir has just proposed school, he is 6 years old. Here is articulate to my crony about his excitement as well as wish at carrying a opportunity. He is a usually child of a family who has attended school, his relatives carrying saved a little any year since his birth,to means schooling. His dual sisters have not been so lucky. Roop, a younger, says she dosen't mind, as well as that Bahir must go, as he is a boy. For Madir, a elder girl, it is a opposite story.

reurinkjan posted the photo: Like to see the cinema as Large as your screen? Than why not click upon the Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157622436074363/s... The yak, Bos grunniens, is the long-haired cow found via the Himalayan segment of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau as good as as far north as Mongolia as good as Russia. In addition to the large made during home population, there is the small, vulnerable furious yak population. The English word "yak" derives from the Tibetan (Tibetan: ; Wylie: g.yag), or gyag in Tibetan this refers customarily to the masculine of the species, the female being called the dri or nak. In English, as in many alternative languages which have borrowed the word, "yak" is customarily used for both sexes. Wild yaks (Tibetan: ; Wylie: 'brong) customarily form herds of in in between 10 as good as 30 animals. Their habitat is treeless uplands such as hills, mountains as good as plateaus in in between 3,20

davidgardener posted a photo: BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA: Mosques, cobbled streets and local shops form a Ottoman Quarter of Mostar's Old Town. Viewed from a banks of a Naretva River

photogon posted a photo: Portsmouth, England The Hovertravel use in between a Isle of Wight and mainland England is currently a only public hovercraft use in a United Kingdom. Hovertravel is a world's oldest hovercraft operator. Hovertravel Isle of Wight . Hovertravel .

RomulusRueda posted a photo: YOSEMITE CA

Frans Harren posted a photo: Afonso we of Portugal, Duke of Braganza (Fronteira, Cabeo de Vide, 10 Aug 1377 - Chaves, fifteen Dec 1461) was a eighth Count of Barcelos, a 2nd Count of Neiva as well as 2nd Lord of Faria as well as a initial Duke of Braganza. Historians hold he was innate in Veiros, Estremoz, Alentejo, as a natural son of Portuguese King John we as well as Ins Peres. He married Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, daughter of Nuno lvares Pereira, ubiquitous of a kingdom, as well as successor of a most opulent house of a kingdom. A traveled as well as artistic man, Afonso was present in 1415 when a Portuguese cowed Ceuta. When his half-brother Edward I, King of Portugal died in 1438, his son Afonso V (Afonso's nephew) was an infant as well as a preference for a regency was a Queen-Mother Leonor of Aragon (Afonso's sister-in-law). This preference for a regency was not popular given Leonor was Aragonese, so in a reunion of a Cortes, summoned by Afonso's half-brother John

reurinkjan posted a photo: Like to see a pictures as Large as your screen? Than because not click upon a Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157622436074363/s... Gabde county Gabde county lies in Central Golok to a south of a Amnye Machen range and inside of a hook of a Ma chu ( Yellow River). It is an important tact area for a Black-necked crane,Tibetan name, khrung khrung ,Grus nigricollis. The county capital is located during Bakchen upon a Shi ke chu, a southeast flowing run of a Ma chu ( Yellow River).There have been 7 monasteries inside of a county, together with a little representing a singular Jonangpa school. Area: 6.554 sq km. footprintbooks.com/guidebooks/SouthAsia.cfm?ccs=76&cs...

TheYellowDart07 posted a photo: A 'Class III Pictish Symbol Stone', found during Kirriemuir, Angus, as well as right away upon display during The Meffan Museum, Forfar. As a Class III stone, this was forged by a Pictish stonemason once a Picts had been converted to Christianity, as well as so was substantially combined during a 8th - 9th Centuries AD. The stone shows a soldier or hunter riding a horse, carrying a stalk as well as turn shield, as well as is accompanied by a tiny dog. Above a supplement is a stays of an additional horse (and substantially rider), but unfortunately this part of a stone is broken as well as lost.

N A Y E E M posted a photo: Violi fixing her lips, a small Filpina does it every evening. One of my favorite moments there in a Isles Bar. Hotel Penisula, Chittagong.

Frans Harren posted a photo: Bom Jesus do Monte Bom Jesus do Monte is a Portuguese sanctuary in a surroundings of a city of Braga, in northern Portugal. Its name equates to Good Jesus of a Mountain. The Sanctuary is a notable e.g. of event site with a monumental, Baroque stairway that climbs 116 metres (381 feet). It is an important tourist attraction of Braga. History Many hilltops in Portugal as well as other parts of Europe have been sites of religious devotion given antiquity, as well as it is probable that a Bom Jesus mountain was one of these. However, a initial indication of a chapel over a mountain dates from 1373. This chapel - dedicated to a Holy Cross - was rebuilt in a 15th as well as 16th centuries. In 1629 a event church was built dedicated to a Bom Jesus (Good Jesus), with six chapels dedicated to a Passion of Christ. The benefaction Sanctuary started being built in 1722, underneath a patronage of a Archbishop of Braga, Rodrigo de Moura Telles. His cloak of arms is se

goddessofxanadu( busy, please excuse!! ) posted a photo: From left to right; Eila, Babisha, Madan, Kana and Gheet. Five friends who similar to to call them selves a 'gang'. They live upon a outskirts of Udaipur in a small settlement...the same a single as Deepti and Gajrup live on, In actuality it was Deepti we had come to visit this morning. Deepti told me which children,'Babisha's Gang', had been intensely naughty yesterday. They had built a dam opposite a stream so as to create a pool deep enough to float in. Alas, a damn had caused havoc with a water supply, and caused some serious flooding. Two of a allotment pumps had left dry. Needless to say, Babisha and co. were gripping a low form now...Babisha and a boys had had beatings, though remained perky and excited about their project to set up a swimming pool.

TheYellowDart07 posted a photo: A 'Class we Pictish Symbol Stone', found upon Donaldstone's Haugh, during a connection of a rivers Isla and Deveron. This mill was found during ploughing in 1972, and is now located during Marischal Museum, Aberdeen. The mill has dual symbols; on top of is a 'eagle', and below is a 'Beast' (or Kelpie/Water Hose/Pictish Beast).

gavin.burnett posted a photo: Dotted along a south coast of Sri Lanka is you will mark a failing art of stilt fishing (stick fishermen). The fisherman roost themselves for hours on end especially during a commencement as well as end of a day as well as with a attract less offshoot pull fish from a sea with consummate ease. The art is failing out especially given a a fisherman can consequence a better living elsewhere as well as also fish supply has not been as great given a boxing day tsunami in 2004. twitter www.gavinburnett.com www.gavinburnett.co.uk

Eric Lafforgue posted a photo: This teen was in Tum, in south Ethiopia, she is from Menit tribe, a clan that is not really crony with Surma! As we can see upon her face, she has uninformed scars done by scratching a skin. it is a beauty pointer in a tribe. With those scars, a lady will have some-more worth when she will be sole for wedding. Surma additionally offer to a few tourists to see a scarification rite (you must compensate a big amount for this), and make use of razor blades to make scars upon a titties of a young women. I refused to compensate for this as it was similar to paying for a woe session - for me. So we won't see any picture of this ceremony, that is done additionally when tourists have been not there, but that is aslo done specifically for tourists! Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

c6 cowboy posted the photo: Maddie as well as you just returned late final night from executive America. We were fortunate to meet most brand new people who you now call friends as well as most some-more who touched the lives forever. Over 5 days you were means to work in 4 different villages in the northern Corozal district of Belize including Patchakan, Conception, San Juaquin as well as Corozal. This was the second outing with the mission team put together by the smashing Bob Wolfert, of the Church of Christ in Bryan, Texas. Forty other people contributed to this effort, most who you will sense about over the entrance days as you begin to work by some of the images from this speed into the heart of the nation which has most need. The immature lady upon top of was part of the vast lengthened family which lived communally in the ramshackle collection of buildings opposite the highway from the hotel you were based out of. "Mr. Bob" had befriended the family over the final

(Jt)... busy again! posted the photo: It's been the whilst given we posted the lot of color, or something seemingly not dark! we promise, I'm not scarcely as sad of the person as we competence appear here lol. we theory newly I've had the little normal hold up problems. My girlfriend as well as we pennyless up, the little issues at work, family stuff. Anyway, all equates to loneliness. we have so most friends in Korea, we mean, I've got like 650 contacts on my iphone. But, noone to really share the moments with. we suspicion I'd had, but we theory the poke continues. Normal young people things we know lol. Not trying to be dramatic, just honest! View On Black Anyway, this is in partial the post inspired by my friend Rich's ( www.flickr.com/photos/richartpix/ ) recent post of the little child personification basketball. we envy kids, for they haven't the worries of adults. I'm looking for the relationship, the child in Rich's cinema is just happy t

goddessofxanadu( busy, please excuse!! ) posted a photo: Kaberi, a flowering plant seller in a market, also there unofficially was so worried about a marketplace owners seeing her she did not even want to be photographed...but she let me take this picture of her bustling hands...making a most pleasing garlands of marigolds we can imagine..I paid for some for my room each day...

(Jt)... bustling again! posted a photo: Man: , . Girl: ... "I'm sorry."