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DSC04509 - Aerial View of Kumbh Mela 2013 Festival Winding Down (India) by Loupiote

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This aerial photo, taken at dawn, shows the Kumbh Mela ground toward the end of the event.

Most of the Hindu pilgrims have left. Camps and Ashrams are being taken down and infrastructure is being dismantled. It looks like a ghost town, and a few weeks later, nothing will remain. A couple of months later, the Ganges river will rise with the monsoon rains and this floodplain will be under about 10 feet of water.

All the street lights that can be seen in the far back are part of the Kumbh Mela "temporary city" built in the flood plain of the Ganges river, near Allahabad.

Kumbh Mela occupies about 56 Square Kilometers (22 Square Miles) of sandy ground in the Ganges floodplain. The "permanent" population is 5 to 10 Million Hindu devotees housed in thousands of temporary Ashrams and tent camps,

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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DSC04503 - Aerial View of Kumbh Mela 2013 Festival Winding Down (India) by Loupiote

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This aerial photo, taken at dawn, shows the Kumbh Mela ground toward the end of the event.

The brown rectangular patches on the ground is hay that was spread inside tents, and on which the people would sleep (i.e. equivalent to a ground tarp or foam mattress). The tents have then been dismantled, but the hay remains, and since it is natural, it will be left on the ground.

Most of the Hindu pilgrims have left. Camps and Ashrams are being taken down and infrastructure is being dismantled. It looks like a ghost town, and a few weeks later, nothing will remain. A couple of months later, the Ganges river will rise with the monsoon rains and this floodplain will be under about 10 feet of water.

All the street lights that can be seen in the far back are part of the Kumbh Mela "temporary city" built in the flood plain of the Ganges river, near Allahabad.

Kumbh Mela occupies about 56 Square Kilometers (22 Square Miles) of sandy ground in the Ganges floodplain. The "permanent" population is 5 to 10 Million Hindu devotees housed in thousands of temporary Ashrams and tent camps,

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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4849 - vietnam - Po Nagar Cham Towers (Nha Trang) by Loupiote

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Po Nagar Cham Towers (Nha Trang, Vietnam)

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DSC08000 - Burning Man 2009 - Wax pear and small beads by Loupiote

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Covering a wax pear with small beads

I suppose that will be a gift.

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

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DSC04630 - Clown Act - Mumu Circus Performer by Loupiote

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My friend Mumu getting ready to go to Bali for her "One Woman Circus Tour".

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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DSC07560 - Memory with fire fans - Fire Performer - Temple of poi 2009 fire dancing expo - Union Square (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Fire fans performance by Lena aka "Memory", from the group Pyrotation (www.pyrotation.net/).

Photo taken at the temple of poi 2009 fire dancing expo on Union Square (San Francisco)

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DSC07515 - Stripship Art Car by Loupiote

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

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DSC00641 - Hammer Throwing - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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A favorite pass-time of the DPW crew: throwing heavy hammers to passing cars.

DPW (Department of Public Works) are the volonteers that "build" Black Rock City's infrastructure before the festival, and take it apart after.

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

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DSC06733 - Milk Box and Bowl by Loupiote

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Milk Box and Bowl art car - 6,702 Gallons - 25,400 Liters

It is called Milktropolis aka Surreal & Milk.

For more information, go to surrealandmilk.blogspot.com

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

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DSC05386 - Young Nepali Woman Sifting Charcoal (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Young woman sifting charcoal with bamboo sift (Nepal)

In the old city of Bhaktapur (Nepal), people live the same traditional way they were living hundreds years ago. Except for a few motorcycles and electric wires, nothing has changed for centuries.

Bhaktapur is one of the Royal Cities of Nepal, located about 10 Km East of Kathmandu.

For more info about Bhaktapur, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaktapur.

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DSC02900 - Statue of Elephant Laying Down (India) by Loupiote

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Statue of an Elephant laying down in front of the Pilot Baba Ashram, 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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DSC02624 - Hindu Pilgrims In Back of Truck - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu pilgrims returning home in the back of a truck, at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

They will probably have a long an uncomfortable journey back home.

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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DSC05600 - Hindu Devotee Singing Mantra and Playing Musical Instrument (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Hindu Devotee with musical instrument, at the Maha Shivaratri Hindu Festival at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu (Nepal)

If you know the name of this musical instrument, please post a Comment!

Hundreds of thousands of Sadhus, Babas, Hindu devotees and pilgrims converge to the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu during the Shivaratri festival ('Great Night of Shiva'), to pray Lord Shiva.

For more information and to see other photos of the Shivaratri festival and the Pashupatinath Temple, read the album description.

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DSC08029 - Railroad tattoo - Leg 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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DSC01786 - Overcrowded River Boat (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu pilgrims on overloaded river boat on the Ganges river, in Varanasi (India).

Most Indian people cannot swim, so if a boat like this were to capsize or sink, it would kill many people (as there are no life-vests on those small river boats, of course).

Those boats are used for ferrying the Hindu pilgrims to a beach across the Ganges river, where they can take the Holy bath in cleaner water.

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

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DSC09965 - Hippie Rainbow Camp at Kumbh Mela 2013 by Loupiote

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This is the "Rainbow Camp", a Hippie camp set-up at the northern edge of the Kumbh Mela festival ground. The camp was organized by a Rasta Yogi man called "Panama Baba", and all non-Hindu travelers were welcome there.

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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DSC09974 - Couple Riding Royal Enfield Bullet Thunderbird Motorcycle by Loupiote

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This is my friend Bun Bun (Chelsea) and Wojtek, on a Royal Enfield bullet motorbike at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival, near Allahabad (India).

The motorbike was a bit too heavy for her. I ended up using this motorbike for the rest of my trip in India and Nepal.

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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00738f80 - Bamboo Bridge - East Khasi Hills (India) by Loupiote

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Bamboo bridge near Mawlynnong in the East Khasi Hills, in Meghalaya (India)

When rivers are too wide to grow living root bridges across them, the Khasi people build foot bridges with bamboo and rattan (they use no nylon rope or metal wire, it is 100% organic).

This bamboo bridge has a span of more than 20 meters (60 feet) and passes 10 meters (30 feet) above a river. They need to rebuild the bridge every few years because it gets rotten.

has a span of more than 20 meters (60 feet) and passes 10 meters (30 feet) above a river. They need to rebuild the bridge every few years because it gets rotten.

This bamboo bridge was at the end of its life, and the local villagers were planning to rebuild it.

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00604800 - Bamboo Bridge - East Khasi Hills (India) by Loupiote

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Bamboo bridge near Mawlynnong in the East Khasi Hills, in Meghalaya (India)

When rivers are too wide to grow living root bridges across them, the Khasi people build foot bridges with bamboo and rattan (they use no nylon rope or metal wire, it is 100% organic).

This bamboo bridge has a span of more than 20 meters (60 feet) and passes 10 meters (30 feet) above a river. They need to rebuild the bridge every few years because it gets rotten.

has a span of more than 20 meters (60 feet) and passes 10 meters (30 feet) above a river. They need to rebuild the bridge every few years because it gets rotten.

This bamboo bridge was at the end of its life, and the local villagers were planning to rebuild it.

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DSC01726 - Flaming Heart - BrightHeart - Burning Man 2015 by Loupiote

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An iron heart is getting heated up by propane gas, causing a huge flame. The heart will eventually become red hot.

BrightHeart by Timothy Lipton

BrightHeart is fire art piece created as a memorial tribute to Dan Fredinburg, friend who died on Mt. Everest in the 25 April 2015 avalanche triggered by the Nepal earthquake.

The heart was showcased on Esplanade @ 4:30 during the event by firing 700+ gallons of LPG via hot air balloon burners, It also burned in the Temple (seen glowing white hot prior to Temple collapse).

Dan Fredinburg was a Google executive who was climbing Everest with three company employees while mapping the area for a future Google Earth-type project.

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

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DSC01079 - Arc Welding on Lathe in Metal Workshop (Philippines) by Loupiote

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Welder doing arc welding in his workshop.

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DSC06744 - Skull with Mirror Mosaic by Loupiote

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Mexican Skull with Mirror Mosaic

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

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DSC00798 - Huntsman Spider with Egg Sac (Philippines) by Loupiote

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Female huntsman spider carrying her egg sac (Philippines)

Heteropoda venatoria, Family Sparassidae.

The egg sac contains hundreds of eggs, and the spider carries the silky sac that she made to protects them.

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DSC13254-v2 - Blue Eyed Stray Kitten by Loupiote

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Cute white stray kitten with amazing blue eyes (Laos)

It was a stray kitten, wandering around a market. There are often stray cats in markets, that live on food scraps.

This is a vertical crop of this photo.

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DSC06914 - Fly Fringes Carnival Mask by Loupiote

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Sarah with a Carnival mask made of fly fringes.

Or maybe this is based on some hijab lingerie?

Photo taken at the Burning Man Decompression Party 2013 (San Francisco).

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DSC07422 - Dragon Head with Fire by Loupiote

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Duane Flatmo's Crustacean Wagon, another of his Kinetic Racers. Of course, he is now renowned for his El Pulpo Mecanico flaming octopus.art car.

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

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DSC04609 - Clown Act - Mumu Circus Performer by Loupiote

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My friend Mumu getting ready to go to Bali for her "One Woman Circus Tour".

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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DSC03650 - Private Property - No Entry by Loupiote

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Trespassers will be shot in the back of the head!

Spotted this sign at a construction site in Kota Kinabalu (Borneo)

I did of course trespass and the security guards and workers were very nice and let me take lots of photos on this construction site.

View my other photos of this construction site.

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DSC06498 - Brides of March (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Brides of March (San Francisco)

This photo was taken at the "Brides of March" gathering.

For more photos and information about this event, please go to my "brides of march" photo album.

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DSC04036 - Mouth of Flàajökull Glacier (Iceland) by Loupiote

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Mouth of the Flàajökull Glacier (Iceland)

You can see the remnant of earlier mouth of the glacier - The glacier is now smaller than it used to be, possibly a sign of global warming?

Aerial photo from a San Francisco to Paris flight. I was able to identify the glacier by using google earth.

The google earth satellite image for this location does not have snow, it was probably taken in summer.

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DSC00488 - Camp on the Street - Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Some Hindu pilgrims (or maybe street merchants) with a small camp on the side of the street, 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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DSC04070 - Jumping Fishes at Fish Market - Lahad Datu (Borneo) by Loupiote

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Local fish merchants have a cool trick: They pin their (dead) fishes on small wooden sticks to make it look like they are jumping. You can't see the sticks on my photos, they are behind the fishes.

View my other photos of fishes jumping on a fish market stall.

Photo taken at the Fish Market in Lahad Datu (Borneo)

Watch a video that I shot in this Fish Market.

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DSC05702 - Sailing Hydrofoil Catamarans - America's Cup 2013 Race (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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America's Cup 2013 two finalist hydrofoil catamarans "Oracle Team USA" and "Emirates Team New Zealand" racing neck and neck on the San Francisco Bay.

The sail of the AC72-class hydrofoil catamarans is a rigid wing made of carbon fiber. When hydro-foiling, those sailboats can go about twice as fast as the wind.

For more photos and info about the America's Cup race and the AC72-class hydrofoil catamarans, go to the album description.

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DSC07977 - SFPD Motorcycle Riot Police Crack-Down at the Bay to Breakers (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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SFPD Police cracking-down and arresting many peaceful revelers during the Bay to Breakers footrace festival. It did not appear that the people they arrested were drunk or causing any trouble. They got arrested just because they were partying in the street. Police apparently had orders to crack-down on all festivities on city streets at the 2011 Bay to Breakers race.

SFPD Police did not arrest people that were partying on Park land (Pan handle and Golden Gate Park). I suppose that the rules for arresting people on Park property are a bit different.

Photo taken at the 2011 Bay to Breakers footrace and street festival (San Francisco).

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DSC00820 - Five Legged Cow (India) by Loupiote

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This calf has an extra leg attached to the top of her neck. 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 a 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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DSC03366 - Rainbow Eye Makeup by Loupiote

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Rainbow Eye Makeup

Gay Pride (San Francisco)

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cd4-012_10-burning-man-2003 - BurningSky Skydiver Camp during a dust storm by Loupiote

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Parachutists Camp during a dust storm

See www.burningsky.org.

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

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DSC05507 - 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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DSC04616 - Clown Act - Mumu Circus Performer by Loupiote

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My friend Mumu getting ready to go to Bali for her "One Woman Circus Tour".

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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DSC10729 - Hindu Pilgrim on Cycle Rickshaw (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu Pilgrim on Cycle Rickshaw (India)

This old bare-feet guy was riding his rickshaw in Rajasthan (temperature 45 C / 120 F), heading for some holy place in Jammu on a Pilgrimage. This would probably take several months.

For more photos and information about cycle rickshaws, go to my cycle rickshaws photo album.

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DSC04621 - Hindu Women Drying Saris in the Wind - Varanasi (India) by Loupiote

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Indian women drying saris in the wind ob the beach after having their Holy Bath in the Ganges river, in the Hindu Holy city of Varanasi (India)

This was on the sandy beach on the bank of the Ganges river, across from the Ghats. It is a popular spot for the Hindu pilgrims to take their Holy Bath.

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

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DSC00138 - Ruins of Submerged Village - Tehri Dam Lake (India) by Loupiote

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Ruins of one of the many villages submerged by the Tehri Reservoir (India)

View a close-up photo of the village ruins.

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 Dam Hydro Power project, go to the Tehri Dam & Lake photo series.

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7536 - vietnam - veterinarian spays a female piglet - 3 of 13 by Loupiote

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Country veterinarian spays a female piglet (Vietnam)

Piglet is oinking very loudely and does not like being hanged up-side down!

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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DSC09768 - Kandi Kid Ramzee with Indian Head Dress - LovEvolution - Lovefest (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Kandi Kid Ramzee with Indian Head Dress

A Kandi Kid is commonly called a "Candy Raver", "Candee Child" or "Kandi Raver".

For more information about Kandi Kids, read the album description.

Photo taken at the LovEvolution / Love Fest Festival (San Francisco).

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DSC09942 - Rice Fields Terraces in Himalaya Valley (India) by Loupiote

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Rice fields terraces on a slope of the Pindar valley, in the Indian Himalayas.

The Pindar river flows into the Alaknanda river which is one of the headstreams of the Ganges river.

For more information about Terrace Farming, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_(agriculture)

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DSC00661 - Dead Cow Carcass (India) by Loupiote

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Carcass of a dead cow that had been pretty-much cleaned to the bones by Himalayan vultures.

They only left the head and legs (not soft and meaty enough to their tastes, I guess).

Himalayan vultures can reportedly strip a cow carcass of all meat in roughly 120 minutes!

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DSC06144 - Nuwakot Palace (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Nuwakot was once the capital of the Kathmandu Valley in the days before the unification of Nepal.

Now Nuwakot is a sleepy village with an old Palace and a few Temples, perched on a hill top.

For more info about Nuwakot, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwakot,_Bagmati.

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DSC01996 - KLR 650 Motorbike Crash by Loupiote

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Low speed motorcycle crash on a sand patch (Death Valley)

We had a small mishap on a sandy trail in Saline Valley (now part of Death Valley National Park), on the way to the hot springs.

No-one got hurt and no damage to the motorbike, but we had to take off all the luggage to put back the heavy bike on its wheels.

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DSC07618 - Khasi Women Eating Ice Pops (India) by Loupiote

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Two Khasi women licking their popsicles (India)

I took this series of photos in a village in the East Khasi Hills, a region of the Meghalaya State in North-East India, inhabited by the Khasi people.

For more info about the Khasi people, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_people.

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DSC09276 - Muslim Men Holding Flags at Street Parade - Eid-Milad-un-Nabi Muslim Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Group of Muslim with Islamic flags at the Milad-un-Nabi street festival.

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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