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DREAM, LIVE, BE, OK were 12-foot tall steel sculptures, by the same artists who previously brought other big words to the playa, like EGO, MOM, BELIEVE.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2015 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC04167 - Brown Cow Nose - Close-up by Loupiote

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Cow Nose (Bulgaria)

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DSC06039 - Girl hula hooping at renegade party (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Girl hulahooping at renegade party - Cristina (San Francisco)

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DSC12319 - Motorcycles on the muddy road - Khardungla Pass - Ladakh (India) by Loupiote

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Motorcycles on the muddy road - Khardungla Pass - Ladakh (India)

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DSC07502 - Silver Dress - Mumu by Loupiote

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This is my friend Mumu with her silver dress.

Mumu "Mumito" Mariane Charline is a choreographer, circus performer and fire artist.

For more photos and information about Mumu, go to my Mumu Photo Series.

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20937-burning-man-2006 - Konnichiwa, japanese burner! by Loupiote

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Konnichiwa, japanese burner!

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2006 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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burning-man-2003 - Levitation - Man Levitating by Loupiote

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Levitating - Man Levitating

No, no photoshop, i did not remove anything or manipulated this photo in any way.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2003 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC08226 - Black Woman Dancing - Arms Up by Loupiote

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My friend Lala dancing at the False Profit Spring Training party in Joaquin Miller Park (Oakland)

RIP

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DSC04249 - Couple Jumping under the Pink Heart - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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Couple jumping under the Pink Heart.

For more info about the Pink Heart Camp, go to pinkheartcamp.wordpress.com.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC00620 - Skull - Giant Puppet - Dia de los Muertos - Halloween (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Skull - Giant Papier-mÃ¢chÃ© Puppet - Dia de Los Muertos (San Francisco)

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2009.

For more info on this event, please check out my Dia de los Muertos series.

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DSC01123 - Hindu Family Bathing in Ganges River (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu family taking the Holy Dip in the Ganges river, at the Triveni Ghat in Rishikesh (India), as a floating offering, burning, is drifting drown between them.

Floating offerings are made of a leaf, marigold flowers and other small gifts to the Gods, and have a little candle wick that is lit-up and burns while the offering is floating away on the river.

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DSC09778 - Rock Climbing - Via Ferrata Tridentina (Dolomites) by Loupiote

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Ascending the via ferrata Tridentina, Dolomites Mountains (Italian Alps).

The climbing route involves ascending more than 2,500 feet (750m) of almost vertical cliff, equipped with cables and occasional metal ladders or steps.

Via Ferratas are climbing routes permanently equipped with a safety cable. For more info about via ferrata, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata.

For more info about the Brigata Tridentina via ferrata, go to it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrata_Tridentina.

For more info about the Dolomites, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites.

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6547 - vietnam - Fabric shop in market by Loupiote

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Fabric shop in market (Mèo Vac, Vietnam)

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DSC08161 - Wild Cannabis (India) by Loupiote

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Wild cannabis weed (India)

In many regions of India, Cannabis is endemic, i.e. it grows naturally everywhere like a weed.

I took this photo in near a tea plantation. The ditch between the road and the plantation was full of wild cannabis.

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DSC07502 - burning man 2008 - El-wire couple by Loupiote

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El-wire couple

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2008 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC00057 - burning man 2007 - Natalia and Pema at the Silent White Procession by Loupiote

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Natalia and Pema at the Silent White Procession at dawn on Thursday morning

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2007 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC09503 - PHSH - hallway - graffiti - Abandoned hospital (Presidio, San Francisco) by Loupiote

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The Public Health Service Hospital (PHSH) is located in the Presidio of San Francisco. It has been rehabilitated into luxury condos housing in 2010, and it is now called "Presidio Landmark Apartments".

For more information about this place you can visit my PHSH page.

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DSC01122 - Urban caver playing with a real human skull - Catacombes de Paris - Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area) by Loupiote

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Urban caver playing with human skull

Catacombs of Paris, about 20 meters (60 feet) underground, under Paris city center.

This is a part of the 200 Km network of ancient tunnels not opened to the public, but regularly visited by trespassing urban cavers called "cataphiles". See more information in the album description.

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7038 - Blackened Teeth - Tribe Woman - vietnam by Loupiote

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Tribe woman with bloody lips (caused by chewing betelnut), and blackened / lacquered teeth, a cultural and traditional sign of beauty (Bảo Lạc, Vietnam)

Betelnut ("cau" in Vietnamese) is is the fruit of the Areca tree. It is wrapped with a "lá trầu" leaf (a different tree) and chewed for its exhilarating lift. Betel quids chewing has been claimed to produce a sense of well-being, euphoria, heightened alertness, sweating, salivation, a hot sensation in the body and increased capacity to work.

Just like alcohol, tobacco, coffee and sakau, betelnut is a culturally-approved psychoactive drug.

See the Betelnut Wikipedia page.

See the "lá trầu" leaves Wikipedia article.

Diu Nghiem wrote: Her blackened teeth was NOT caused by chewing betelnut and betel leaf but by using some special chemical. Blackening tooth chemical is usually natural material which varies from the North to South of Vietnam. The process might take a couple of day in order to get the perfect shiny black.

Men and women did that because of the same reason which caused other people whitening their teeth (they consider black teeth to be a sign of beauty). After the occupancy of France in Vietnam blackened teeth is not popular anymore.

More information about the teeth blackening or teeth lacquering custom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening and

"Healthy Black Smiles" by Barbara Cohen

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DSC03650 - Woman with Party Boots - Platform Shoes by Loupiote

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Jessikr with Party Boots - Platform Shoes

Gay Pride (San Francisco)

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DSC08284 - Fire Dancers at the Palace of Fine Arts by Loupiote

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Renegade fire jam cession at the Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco).

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DSC04234 - Skateboarder Jumping at Skate Park - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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Skateboarder jumping at the Sk8 Kamp Heart Bowl

For more info about the Sk8 Kamp, go to www.facebook.com/sk8kamp.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC02262 - Woman with Glowing EL-Wire Costume - Burning Man 2015 by Loupiote

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Japanese woman with beautiful el-wire headdress and costume.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2015 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC02051 - Arc Welding - C515 Cut-off Valves - Utility Worker Fixing Broken Water Main (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Arc Welding - Utility Worker Fixing Broken Water Main (San Francisco)

To see more photos of this repair operation, go to this photo album.

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DSC04407 - BELIEVE - Giant Letters Scupture - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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BELIEVE, by Laura Kimpton and Jeff Schomberg ( laurakimpton.com/ ).

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC04892 - Hands Sculpture - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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Woman standing on giant wooden hands sculpture.

Hands, by David Gerler.

For more info about the Hands sculpture, go to www.indiegogo.com/projects/hands-a-2013-burning-man-arts-....

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC02381 - Hindu Pilgrims Having Ritual Bath in Ganges River - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu devotees are taking the ritual bath in the Ganges river, while a large crowd takes part in a procession with the all the Ashram Gurus on decorated floats, on the pontoon bridge, at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

Looks amazing when viewed in high-resolution.

This was the Kumbh Maha Snan or main bathing day, also called Mauni Amavasya, which is the the most auspicious day for taking the holy bath in the Ganges river.

This bridge is one of the 18 temporary pontoon bridges (i.e. floating bridges) installed during the Kumbh Mela.

This pontoon bridge is over the Ganges (Ganga) river. Those floating bridges are built on top of large empty metal tanks, and are anchored to the river bottom with ropes on the upstream side of the bridge. Those bridges can support trucks up to 10 Tons, but to be safe, the maximum weight was set to 5 Tons. Those bridges are mostly used for pedestrian traffic. During high affluence periods when large crowds are crossing the floating bridges, bridges are one-way, with alternating direction for each other bridge. This rule was taken after a stampede in a previous year caused the bridge railing to fail and many people to fall in the river and drawn (most of the Hindu pilgrims cannot swim!).

The water was very low in the Ganges river at the time, so in fact this bridge was not floating, but just sitting on the sandy bottom of the shallow river.

Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.

For more photos and info about the Kumbh Mela festival, read the album description.

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DSC01694 - Dusty Man with Black Sheer Scarf - Burning Man 2015 by Loupiote

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Dusty man with black t-shirt cut into thins strips, and a black sheer scarf.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2015 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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6339 - vietnam - Tribe girl carrying grass by Loupiote

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Tribe girl carrying grass (Vietnam)

She is so colorful and so pretty!

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DSC09272 - Gays in the Military by Loupiote

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Yes, Sir!

Photo of a openly lesbian woman army nurse taken in Dolores Park during the Gay Pride Festival 2011 in San Francisco.

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DSC00342 - Sailing Rock on the Racetrack with Sun Backlight - Death Valley by Loupiote

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Sailing Stone coming towards me with sun backlight - Racetrack dry lake in Death Valley (California)

Sailing stones are rocks that move in long tracks on the smooth and perfectly flat surface of a dry lake, without human or animal intervention. The rocks are most likely propelled by strong winds while entrapped in floating ice sheets (or icebergs), after winter rains flooded the dry lake and made the mud soft and slippery.

For more photos and information about the Racetrack sailing stones, go to my Sailing Stones photo series.

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DSC04831 - Clock Ship Tere near Church Trap - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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The Pirate Ship and the Church Trap.

The art car (on the left) is called The Pirate Ship, aka The Clock Ship Tere, by Andy Tibbetts.

For more info about this art car, go to www.facebook.com/ClockShip.

On the right, the Church Trap, by Rebekah Waites and crew.

For more info about this art installation, go to www.churchtrap.com.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC07734 - burning man 2008 - Face Paint - Gabrielle by Loupiote

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Face Paint - Gabrielle

Body paint by Scott and Madelyn Fray - www.livingbrush.com

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2008 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC07145 - Steam Locomotives in the Darjeeling Train Yard (India) by Loupiote

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Five steam locomotives parked in the Darjeeling Train Yard (India)

Of those five steam engines (in this photo), three were in working order and two were undergoing maintenance. More steam locomotives are located in other stations on the line and in the Tindharia workshop.

View more photos of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, locally known as the "Toy Train", is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling (India). It is still operated by vintage British-built B Class steam locomotives. Operations between Siliguri and Kurseong have been temporarily suspended since 2010 following a Landslide at Tindharia (view photos of the landslide).

For more info about the DHR steam locomotives, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHR_778_(locomotive) and www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/dhr-locos-full.html.

For more information about the Darjeeling Steam-powered Train, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway.

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2208-burning-man-2005 - Squiddudah by Loupiote

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Squiddudah. One of Flight2Mars' art cars

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2005 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC07972 - Khasi Menhirs and Dolmens - Memorial Stones (India) by Loupiote

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Ancient Khasi memorial stones, in the East Khasi Hills, in Meghalaya (India)

For more photos and information about these, go to the Khasi Memorial Stones album (read the album description).

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DSC05670 - Skull Makeup - Dia de Los Muertos - Halloween (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Dia de Los Muertos (San Francisco)

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2011.

For more info on this event, please check out my Dia de los Muertos series.

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DSC05573 - I Don't! - Akatrielle - Brides of March (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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I Don't! - Akatrielle

This photo was taken at the "Brides of March 2009" gathering in San Francisco.

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DSC01651 - Suliman Nawid in his Trademark Dia de los Muertos Makeup and Matador Costume - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Fashion designer and model Suliman Nawid in his trademark matador costume and Dia de los Muertos (Mexican Day of the Dead) face painting.

The white hat is not made of feathers (feathers are not allowed at Burning Man), but rather of small pieces of fabric that imitate feathers.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2012 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC01111 - Man Pulling Loaded Hand Cart on Street (Philippines) by Loupiote

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Photo taken in Baguio, a regional capital in Luzon Island.

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DSC01483 - Photo of Blonde Woman on Bike with Leg Warmers - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Blond girl with neon-pink outfit.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2012 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC01910 - Rainbow Bunny - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Cute bunny with rainbow dreadlocks, during the traditional "Bunny March".

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2012 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC08937 - Burning Man 2009 - EL-Wire Heart and Full Moon by Loupiote

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EL-Wire Heart and Full Moon - bicycle trailer - art car

It is called He(art) by Hi-may Rivera (James Hacking).

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2009 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC07823 - Fat Cop on Motorcycle by Loupiote

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Motorcycle Police - SFPD (San Francisco)

Don't they have a gym at the SFPD (San Francisco Police Department)?

Another photo of the same cop! (taken a couple of years earlier)

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DSC02008 - Hellraiser Mask - Holding Candle - Dia de los Muertos (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Man with Hellraiser mask, holding a candle.

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2014.

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19200 - Rue de la Tombe Issoire (aka rue St Jacques) - Catacombes de Paris - Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area) by Loupiote

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Rue de la Tombe Issoire (aka rue St Jacques)

Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area), about 20 meters (60 feet) underground, under Paris city center.

This is a part of the 200 Km network of ancient tunnels not opened to the public, but regularly visited by trespassing urban cavers called "cataphiles". See more information in the album description.

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DSC04854 - Zonotopia - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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Zonotopia and the Quasicrystalline Conjunction, by Rob Bell and crew

For more info, go to zonotopia.com/

The Zomes of Zonotopia are jewel like structures carved from wood which seemingly have sprouted from the playa. Each provides a beautiful well crafted sanctuary in which people can interact, contemplate and meditate.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC00444 - Jadh Ganga River Gorge (India) by Loupiote

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Jadh Ganga river gorge, on the road to Gangotri (India)

The Jadh Ganga is a tributary of the Bhagirathi river, one of the headstreams of the Ganges.

Jadh Ganga originates in Tibet, China, north of Mana Pass. The upper valley of Jadh Ganga is claimed by China and controlled by India.

For more info, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadh_Ganga.

I took this photo from a bridge over this narrow canyon.

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DSC06058 - Elana's tongue by Loupiote

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Elana's tongue

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