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It’s a sign! In Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal

Thamel is the tourist district in Kathmandu and a maze of small streets filled with restaurants, internet cafes and shops selling all kinds of handicrafts. Of course everybody want attention to their...

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Khumbu Valley kid

One more, just because they look so cute, especially with this old faded Donald Duck T-shirt :-) Related photos: Kids in Phakding, Nepal Hindu Girl in Kathmandu Girl playing with rocks, Phakding, Nepal

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Aconcagua at dawn from Casa de piedra, Argentina

Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside of Asia, with 6962m altitude, and therefore one of the 7 summits. Just inside the border is is fully in Argentina. Shot 6 years ago in the early morning from...

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Flowermarket in Guatemala

One of my friends is currently back in his home country Guatemala and he wrote me this week that he was shocked by the poverty. It will take more time to overcome a full generation of civil war and...

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Monte Rosa from Mont Blanc, Alps

When summiting Mt Blanc, we saw the sea of clouds as published earlier. But when looking east, we could see across Italy, towards the Monte Rosa group.The rising sun cast different shades of shadows...

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Laundry service in Agra, part 1: dirty laundry ferry

This is the first in a series of 5, about the laundry service in Agra, India. Agra is known for the Taj Mahal, but behind the scenes a lot f activities go on like in any society. I was amazed that so...

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Laundry service in Agra, part 2: cooking the laundry

Part 2 of the Agra laundry service. The clothes get boiled in large kettles with warm water. I am not sure how many degrees it was inside the kettles, but it was already 45 degrees centigrade outside,...

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Laundry service in Agra, part 3: scrubbing

Part 3 of the Agra Laundry service. This old man is scrubbing the clothes clean on a flat stone. I could not see anybody using any soap, though I assume it must bee needed to get the dust out…...

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Laundry service in Agra, part 4: rinsing

Part 4 of the Agra laundry service: two youngsters hitting the wet clothes on a flat stone to get the water out, near the bridge and preparing the clothes for drying.Quite a difference from our washing...

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Laundry service in Agra, part 5: drying

Finally, the clean laundry is drying, strangely enough in the sand…This was part 5 of 5 of the laundry service in Agra, India. Hope you enjoyed a view into the way ordinary things are done in...

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