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DSC01474 - Art Car - Sinking Cargo Ship - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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If you know who built the Abandon (sinking cargo ship art car), please post a comment or email me.

The Abandon a clever art car (or rather, art ship) in the shape of a sinking cargo ship, parked near "The Pier".

In the back, the art ship Monaco, a 3-mast tall ship.

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

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DSC02452 - Weird Guru with Face Paint Makeup - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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Weird Hindu Guru with strange facepaint makeup and a veil, at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

This was 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.

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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DSC04864 - Cardon Cactus (Argentina) by Loupiote

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Cardon Cactus - Echinopsis

I believe this is Echinopsis atacamensis or Echinopsis atacamensis.

These tree-size cactus are growing in the High Desert in North-West Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. I saw this one near Cachi (Argentina). There is another one here.

If you can precisely identify the species of cactus, please post a comment!

For more information about the Cardón Cactus, read:

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinopsis_terscheckii

- es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinopsis_atacamensis.

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DSC09762 - Old Hindu Pilgrim at Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Old Hindu man with his luggage (just a small bundle on a stick), and his food can, walking alone toward the Sangam.

The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

Photo taken at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

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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DSC09357 - Hindu Sacred Threads (Ritual Ropes) - India by Loupiote

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Street vendor selling small ritual rope loops worn by Hindu pilgrims.

Those ropes are Hindu Sacred Threads, called "yajno pavitam" or Yajñopavītam.

For more information about the Hindu Sacred Threads, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanayana and www.oldandsold.com/books/hindu/hindu-4.shtml.

Photo taken at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

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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DSC09616 - Hindu Pilgrims Gathering at Sangam for the Holy Bath in the Ganges River - Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu pilgrims gathering before dawn on the bank of the Ganges river, near the Sangam, during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

This was the early morning of January 27 (a full-moon night, called Paush Purnima), one of the most auspicious mornings for taking the holy bath. After a 7 km night walk, I arrived at the Sangam area at about 3am, early enough to be well positioned to take a few good photos in this gigantic crowd. The yellowish color is caused by the dim sodium-vapor street lights.

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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7541 - vietnam - veterinarian spays a female piglet - 6 of 13 by Loupiote

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Country veterinarian spays a female piglet (Vietnam)

Spaying is a common and simple surgical operation to remove or disable a female animal’s ovaries.

Here the operation takes place in the village's pig market. The screaming piglet is attached up-side down on a piece of wood. The veterinarian performs a small incision that does not cause any bleeding (he must have done that operation very often and knows exactly where to cut). Then he inserts his bare fingers (no gloves, no scrubbing) in the piglet's belly through the incision to find the ovaries. Hopefully the animal has a good immune system! The ovaries are extracted, ligatured and put back inside, then the incision is stitched. Of course no anesthetic is used, so the piglet was very vocal during the entire operation that lasted no more than 5 minutes. After the operation the piglet seemed totally exhausted and suddenly very quite, after oinking very loudly during the whole ordeal.

See the other photos of the piglet spaying operation.

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DSC06239 - Fire Performer Spinning Fire Sword (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Fire Performer Spinning Fire Sword (San Francisco)

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DSC07551 - Truck in Ditch (India) by Loupiote

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TATA Truck in ditch on mountain road (India)

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DSC06484 - Woman with Red Roses Crown and Skull Makeup - Dia de los Muertos by Loupiote

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Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2016.

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

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DSC2393 - Graffiti - PHSH - Abandoned Hospital (Presidio, San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Graffiti

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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DSC06064 - iX-Chel Sandivel by Loupiote

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iX-Chel at the top of the Minaret

iX-Chel Sandivel can be contacted via her website ixchelsandivel.com.

This climbable tower sculpture is called "Minaret" by Bryan Tedrick

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2010 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC08759 - Blue and Pink - Women in Jama Masjid Mosque - Delhi (India) by Loupiote

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Women in Jama Masjid Mosque - Delhi (India)

They are probably Hindu women, not Muslim. People from any faith are allowed in the mosque in Delhi, and it is common to see women with hair and head not covered.

For more information about this mosque, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jama_Masjid,_Delhi

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R1-1605 - Cilanbolu Tunnel (Amasya) by Loupiote

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If you have contact information for the archaeologists involved with the Cilanbolu excavations in Amasya, please email me, thanks!

Cilanbolu Tunnel (Amasya, Turkey)

For more photos and information about the mysterious Cilanbolu tunnels of Amasya, read the album description.

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DSC05153 - Krishna Mandir - Patan Durbar Square (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Krishna Mandir Temple on Durbar Square in Patan (Nepal)

Durbar Square means "the square of the palace".

This one is in Patan, a Royal city just a few kilometers south of Kathmandu.

For more info about the Krishna Mandir temple, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patan_Durbar_Square#Krishna_Mandir.

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DSC02929 - Firefighters near the Fire - The Man is Burning - - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Black Rock Rangers cannot contain the crowd for long once the structure has collapsed.

Like a few others, I jumped their line to be among the first near the fire. It was very, very hot.

A few firefighters in Fire Proximity Suits try to keep people off the very hot danger zone.

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

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DSC05730 - Woman with Carnival Mask - Carnaval de Humahuaca (Argentina) by Loupiote

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Carnival 2010 in the streets of Humahuaca (Argentina).

During Carnival festivities in the small village of Tilcara, in the Andes mountains, young men dress up as devils (diablos) with colorful costumes covered with mirrors. Women hold the tail of a devil and everyone is drinking and dancing to the music of marching bands.

For more photos and information about the Carnival in Northern Argentina, read the album description.

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DSC08021 - Railroad tattoo - Backpiece by Loupiote

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Daryl's amazing railroad tattoo (San Francisco)

Train tracks, switches and tunnels cover his entire body, front and back, from head to toes (litterally), in a perfectly symetrical and seamless pattern. He designed the tattoo and said it took 200 hours of work to realise the work.

Daryl spent many years of his life "freight train hopping", which involves countless days of walking long miles along desert tracks.

Check my other photos of Daryl's railroad tattoo.

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DSC09362 - Hindu Pilgrim Walking with Bag on Head (India) by Loupiote

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The millions of Hindi pilgrims that converge to the Kumbh Mela don't have backpacks. They just carry their belongings in a bag on their head, like this old Hindu man.

Photo taken at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

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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DSC02696 - Caterpillar CAT 385C Ultra High Demolition Excavator - Building Demolition by Loupiote

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Caterpillar 385C Ultra High Demolition Excavator - Building Demolition - PHSH - Abandoned Hospital (Presidio, San Francisco)

This development project is called Presidio PHSH Adaptive Reuse Housing.

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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DSC00535 - Group of Hindu Pilgrims Walking - Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Group of Hindu pilgrims in saffron-colored clothes, walking. In the back one of the pontoon floating bridges over the Ganges river.

Photo taken at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

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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DSC02351 - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Dome House - Darwin by Loupiote

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A dome house in Darwin Ghost Town, with the sign: " Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) - Systemwide Offices".

Visit the IGPP website: igpp.ucsd.edu/

Darwin is a ghost town that is still inhabited by a few artists and people who enjoy solitude in this remote desert community which is probably the last place in the US with only 28.8K internet access via modem!

For more information about Darwin, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin,_California.

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DSC07731 - Leah's body is covered with tattoos by Loupiote

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Leah

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DSC04073-v2 - Fire Angel - Leah with fire fans (San Francisco) - Fire dancer by Loupiote

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Leah with fire fans (San Francisco)

My friend Leah is a San Francisco tattoo artist and fire performer.

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DSC07942 - Burning Man 2009 - The Golden Gate Bridge art car by Loupiote

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The Golden Gate Bridge art car by Johnno Lazetich

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

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2312-burning-man-2005 - colossus by zachary coffin by Loupiote

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Kathy Hanczaryk swings under the Colossus by Zachary Coffin

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

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DSC02223 - Woman Hiking near the Ocean - Rugged California Coast by Loupiote

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Woman hiking near the ocean on the rugged California coast.

This is my friend Yassmine, modeling for me.

Photo taken on a coastal trail in San Francisco, not far from the Golden Gate bridge.

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DSC00466 - burning man 2007 - Kinetic Steam Works' Case traction engine Hortense at night by Loupiote

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Kinetic Steam Works' Case traction engine Hortense

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

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DSC01285 - burning man 2007 - The Robotic Chariot aka The Mantis by Loupiote

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The Robotic Chariot aka The Mantis, by Denis Shcheglov from camp "58"This electrically powered mutant vehicule has four walking legs.

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

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DSC08739 - Rock Climbing the Dry Waterfall - Fall Canyon - Death Valley National Park (California) by Loupiote

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Hiking up Fall Canyon in Death Valley National Park (California).

Fall Canyon is a very nice day hike, starting from the Titus canyon parking area. The narrows with marble rock formation, above the dry waterfall, require some scrambling but they can be reached without needing any rock-climbing.

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DSC05552 - KLR 650 Motorbike with Heavy Load by Loupiote

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I had a pretty big load on my KLR on the way back from the Burning Man festival.

But the KLR is a mule, and I had no problem riding it with all these bags.

View my Burning Man photos.

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DSC01255 - burning man 2007 - Crude Awakening by Loupiote

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Crude Awakening, by Dan Das Mann, Karen Cusolito, Black Rock FX, MarkPerez, Pyrokinetics, Nate Smith and MonkeyBoy - see www.headlesspoint.com/crude_awakening/

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

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DSC02820 - Altar de Muertos - Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Dia de los Muertos (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Altar de Muertos for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence that recently passed away.

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2015.

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

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DSC06391 - Beef Lungs and Tracheas in Meat Shop (Argentina) by Loupiote

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Beef Lungs and Tracheas

In Argentina (like in most other parts of the world), you can buy any organ of a beef at the butcher store.

Did I mention that being vegetarian is illegal in Argentina? (just kidding!)

I took this photo at the Mercado Central in Salta (Argentina).

In developed countries, many people do not want buy those organs, so they are processed industrially, shredded and turned into sausages, meat-loaf or dog food.

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DSC07149 - Firebreather Street Performer (Jakarta) by Loupiote

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Street performer breathing fire.

Photo taken on Fatahillah Square in Kota, the old colonial city center of Jakarta.

There was a large crowd of locals and many kids enjoying the Eid ul-Fitr Holiday, at the end of Ramadan.

For more information about this location, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kota,_Jakarta

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DSC00791 - Kids in Himalayan Village (India) by Loupiote

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Kids fooling around and giving me the thumbs-up, in Himalayan village (India)

The little girl on the left, with the blue sweater, was the smartest kid of the village.

The little boy on the right was grumpy!

View more photos of Janki Chatti village, near Yamunotri, in the Indian Himalayas.

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DSC08712 - Burning Man 2009 - Mumu carrying Milk Crates by Loupiote

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Mumu carrying Milk Crates

Packing up the OMCC Camp (Object Manipulation Concentration Camp)

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

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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DSC09285 - Muslim Crowd Waving Hands - Eid-Milad-un-Nabi Muslim Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Group of Muslim men with green head covers waving hands and chanting at the Milad un-Nabi street parade.

This is the celebration of Eid-Milad-un-Nabi, Prophet Muhammad's Birthday. Milad un-Nabi, also known as Nabi Day and Mawlid, is a gazetted holiday in India.

It is the occasion of large street parades and other festivities by the Muslim male population (Muslim women are not allowed to participate in those public festivities).

For more photos and info about this event, read the album description.

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DSC01484 - Periscope Inside the Nautilus Submarine Art Car - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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The inside of the Nautilus Submarine art car is made with the same amazing attention to details as the outside. There is even a working night-vision periscope!

“The Nautilus” by Five Ton Crane, a San Francisco Bay Area art collective, is a 25 foot long art car inspired by the submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. It has a water cannon and a night vision periscope, but its most awesome detail is a 4 foot diameter door with a motorized brass aperture window shade and a squid-themed keyless entry system (video). The door was designed and built by artist Dr. Alan Rorie.

More info on the Nautilus art car website.

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

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DSC09829 - Boats and Hindu Pilgrim Bathing in the Ganges River at Sangam - Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu pilgrims bathing in the Ganges river, at the Sangam, during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

Hundreds of small boats moored together form floating islands in the shallow waters. Thousands of pilgrims take the holy bath from those boats.

The wooden poles in the water are a safety fence, as most of the Hindu pilgrims can't swim!

The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

This was the morning of January 27 (a full-moon night, called Paush Purnima), one of the most auspicious mornings for taking the holy bath.

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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DSC09636 - Thousands of Hindu Pilgrims Gathering for the Holy Bath in the Ganges River at Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu pilgrims gathering before dawn on the bank of the Ganges river, near the Sangam, during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

This was the early morning of January 27 (a full-moon night, called Paush Purnima), one of the most auspicious mornings for taking the holy bath. After a 7 km night walk, I arrived at the Sangam area at about 3am, early enough to be well positioned to take a few good photos in this gigantic crowd. The yellowish color is caused by the dim sodium-vapor street lights.

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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DSC01047 - Tehri Dam - Rock and Earth-fill Embankment Dam (India) by Loupiote

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The Tehri dam is the highest dam in India and one of the highest in the world.

It is hard to imagine that right there, on this photo, deep under the lake, just at the bottom on the dam, there is a submerged city (Tehri, now called "Old Tehri") that was the provincial capital, with a population of about 25,000. The people from Old Tehri have been relocated to New Tehri, a planned city built on the mountain above the dam.

The Tehri Reservoir (the lake on the left) now fills-up a large part of the Bhagirathi valley, one of the headstreams of the Ganges.

The Tehri Dam was (and still is) a very controversial project, as it flooded two valleys resulting in the destruction of numerous villages and a town (Tehri), all now submerged, and forced the relocation of about 100,000 people.

For more photos and info about the controversial Tehri Hydro Power project, go to the Tehri Dam & Lake photo series.

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DSC06595 - The End of the Road - Darjeeling Road Landslide (India) by Loupiote

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The road to Darjeeling (India) comes to an abrupt end due to a major landslide that occurred in June 2010.

View my other photos of the broken road and landslide.

The road now stops abruptly at the top of a very high almost vertical cliff (100 meters or more). A large area of this very steep mountain side where that road was built went crashing down in the valley below. Some houses were very close from the landslide, but no house was destroyed and no one died.

The famous Darjeeling "Toy Train" steam powered railroad was following this road, so the train connection between Darjeeling and Siliguri at the bottom of the mountain is currently discontinued (until the landslide-damaged section gets rebuilt, if this ever happens).

There is word that the Government has planned to repair the damaged road and restore road and rail link to Darjeeling on National Highway 55 between Siliguri and Kurseong, But given the size and extent of the landslide damage, it will probably take years and be a very costly construction project.

In the mean time, there is a detour around the damaged section (via a very steep and narrow road that cannot be used by trucks). Trucks must use another road that completely bypasses this area.

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DSC00834 - Motor Rickshaw Transporting Holy Cows (India) by Loupiote

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Motor rickshaw transporting holy 5 legged and 6 legged cows.

The two calves in the back had extra legs attached to the top of their necks. This is a birth defect called Polymelia, where conjoint twins starts developing but one twin degenerated completely except for one or more limbs, which end up attached to the other twin.

With cows, the one or two extra limbs are often attached to the top of the cow's neck. This extra legs are shrunken, deformed and non-functional, and they get strange long nails (since the nails on normal cow legs get worn by walking).

In India, when a calf is born with extra leg or two, this is like winning the jackpot: those 5 legged and 6 legged cows are seen are very holy, and the owner will parade them around and receive donations from Hindu devotees.

These two calves (one with 5 legs, and the other one with 6 legs) were transported around the city in this specially designed motor rickshaw, covered with images of the famous "Sai Baba" (not sure why).

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

Photo taken in Varanasi - also known as Benares (India).

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

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DSC10760 - Women in sari carrying bags (India) by Loupiote

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Women carrying bundles of grass or hay to feed their cows (Rajasthan, India)

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DSC03598 - Art Nouveau Ironwork in the Grand Palais (Paris) by Loupiote

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Art Nouveau ironwork in the Grand Palais (Paris)

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DSC01087 - Lathe Machine Tool in Workshop (Philippines) by Loupiote

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Worker operating lathe machine tool.in a metal workshop.

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DSC03743 - Man with Red Lips by Loupiote

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Man with red lipstick and red lips headpiece. His name is Fadi Okalillan.

Photo taken at the Folsom Street Fair 2012 (San Francisco).

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DSC06745 - Burning Man 2009 - Big Red Cat art car - Boo Boo Kitty by Loupiote

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Big Red Cat art car - Boo Boo Kitty

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

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DSC06899 - Burning Man 2009 - Art car shooting flames - Fire cannon by Loupiote

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Art car shooting flames - Fire cannon

This art car is by Controlled Burn

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

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