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  • A man eating ice cream on the front porch of an old general store in Lorman Mississippi.
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  • A man eating on the front porch of an old store.
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  • A couple take in a view from Cape Florida Lighthouse, rebuilt in 1847.
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  • A view from the 103 floor of Willis Tower or the old Sears Tower.
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  • Pacific Ocean view at seaside Puerto Caliche restaurant where workers reflected in windows decorate for a dinner party with balloons. La Portada is an offshore stack eroded into a natural arch located north of Antofagasta, Chile.
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  • The building front of the Save the Pygmies Foundation.
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  • Man sits in front of alter in his home in Xoxocotlan for Day of the Dead. Dia de los Muertos is Mexico's most characteristic fiesta where it is believed that souls of the dead return to the earth.
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  • Cowboys from central Utah wait for a signal to begin branding young calves and an errant dog finds his way back to safety. Separated when they were moving cattle, the dog jumped up into the saddle upon seeing his owner. The ranch is surrounded by federal land of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Canyonlands National Park with spectacular views or the orange walls surrounding Indian Creek.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • Villagers carrying firewood outside Millenium Village - an experimental village run by the UN.  The UN tried to find a cluster of villages that lacked food security, and then tried to solve some of the problems in a controlled environment.  This village has been going for one year, and they just gathered benchmark data for the first six months.
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  • People sitting outside a bar in the Over the Rhine district of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  • Young cowboys turn a ranch cattle chute into a homegrown playground on a ranch near Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. The young cow pokes learn to ride horses when they are young, and help move cattle on the ranch.
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  • La Portada on Chile's desert coast has an eroded, natural arch created by marine erosion by ocean waters like much of the surrounding coastal cliffs. The La Portada Natural Monument is south of Antofagasta.
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  • During October Festival of Bullfighting for the Lord of the Miracles, hundreds of spectators gather to critique the finesse of both red-caped matadors and bovine competitors. Plaza de Acho is Peru's oldest bull ring is located in a Lima suburb under the towering Cerro San Cristóbal mountain.
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  • Nuns walk through a cobblestone passage inside Santa Catalina Convent. They are  followed by a dog that greets them while wandering freely the convent.
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  • Cowboy chic bar patrons crowd together under a red glow to watch dancing and mechanical bull riding. The bar scene is packed at midnight in Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city of 3 million, also the capital of Nuevo Leon. A modern, industrial city, Monterrey is described as most Americanized-where the pursuit of profit seems more American than Mexican.
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  • A curious camel.
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  • Ghanaian men building a volunteer health clinic.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Ghanaian standing in water as others relax in a canoe on shore.
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  • Unusual evening light after sunset glows from the sky warming the walls of the cathedral on the Plaza de Armas in Ariquipa, Peru.
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  • Man loading bag of cement onto a truck.
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  • Lord of Sipan, important Moche burial site in Peru. The site was being looted but it was stopped and some tombs are restored with replicas to show what the graves looked like 1500 years ago. The treasure trove discovered included gold, silver, copper and semi-precious stones as well as hundreds of ceramic pots which contained food and drink for journey in the after life..  The Mochica leader was buried in all of this finery along with a warrior guard buried alive (with his feet cut off), three women, two assistants and a servant.
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  • Lord of Sipan, important Moche burial site in Peru. The site was being looted but it was stopped and some tombs are restored with replicas to show what the graves looked like 1500 years ago. The treasure trove discovered included gold, silver, copper and semi-precious stones as well as hundreds of ceramic pots which contained food and drink for journey in the after life..  The Mochica leader was buried in all of this finery along with a warrior guard buried alive (with his feet cut off), three women, two assistants and a servant.
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  • A couple at 'Michael's Genuine Food & Drink' restaurant.
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  • Dune landscape in the wildlife sanctuary, Resrva Nactional de Paracas, Peru.  Sand dunes line the most important wildlife sanctuary on the Peruvian coast that is known for it's clear blue waters, birds and marine life.
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  • An alligator walks on the muddy bottom of the Saint Marys River.
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  • Clay pots piled on a tomb of the Lord of Sipan archeological site near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley.<br />
Archaeologists uncovered burial places of several lesser important figures besides royalty at Sipan. One, a high priest, had a tomb almost as impressive as the royal ones. Another burial contained 1,137 pots shaped into warriors, priests, prisoners, musicians, and anthropomorphic deities.
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  • A single white car travels north on the Pan American Highway as it follows the oceans and coastline through desert sands along Peru's Pacific coast.
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  • The Pan American Highway is an empty, lonely, desolate road as it runs along Peru's Pacific desert coast along the ocean for hundreds of miles.
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  • Headlights and brake lights illuminate the darkened road at dusk as traffic moves both directions through customs at the Texas and Mexico border. Commercial trucks and private vehicles cross one of the four international bridges that connect Laredo and Nuevo Laredo over the Rio Grande River.
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  • Weathered landscape of the driest place on earth where a century can pass without recorded precipitation. Shadows fall in the Valley of the Moon in the Atacama Desert where wind has left an array of oddly shaped polychrome forms in the desolate, eroded, desert landscape.
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  • Parched and windswept, a cactus stands at the top of Cerro la Raya and the overlook of the ancient city of Túcume in northern Peru. A significant Inca shrine, Túcume actually predates the Inca, its mud-brick pre columbian architectural ruins constructed some 900 years ago. At least 28 pyramids, plazas and crumbling walls made up the ceremonial center of the Lambayeque people (1000-1400 AD).
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  • A diner watches people cross El Zócalo, Mexico City's grandiose main square, from the elegant Gran Hotel's rooftop restaurant. Built atop ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, the zócalo is now surrounded by sprawling Spanish colonial architecture, the most prominent being the Metropolitan Cathedral.
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  • Two midwives help a woman give birth at the Dan Moser Memorial Clinic.
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  • A doctor and a patient at a health clinic.
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  • Desolate beauty of the Valley of the Moon, from constant erosion. The weathered landscape is known as the driest place on earth and a century can pass without measurable precipitation. Shadows fall in the Atacama Desert where wind has left an array of oddly shaped polychrome forms in the desolate, eroded, desert landscape.
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  • Business men take a smoke and coffee break at an upscale coffee bar. Coffee shops are on every block in downtown Santiago where men catch a cup of coffee and maybe a kiss. Dressed in a short, red dress, the waitress works for substantial tips at Cafe Cousino or Coffee with Legs. She can make $800 a week by flirting, lighting cigarettes and serving coffee.
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  • Children dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to celebrate the first da of spring. The Primavera parade is also known as Friendship Day or Children’s Day.
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  • Circus performers dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to advertise the show in Pisco. Locals watch the parade as 20 performers from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile smile and wave as they ride around in a circus truck the first night in town.
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  • Circus performers dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to advertise the show in Pisco. 20 performers from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile smile and wave as they ride around in a circus truck the first night in town.
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  • Skeletons bleach in the desert sun Chauchilla Cemetery, a burial ground dating from the late Nazca Period from A.D. 500-700. Grave robbers have looted most of the tombs in this  remote spot of southern Peru, scattering bones, garments and pottery shards across the blistering sands. Tourists pay to see some skulls that have been re-arranged. Mummies with hair, teeth and clothing sit in rock walled tomb-like graves facing east.
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  • Visitors in the cellar of a craft brewery in the Over the Rhine neighborhood.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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  • Coconut water, a popular refreshment in Little Havana.
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  • A visitor looks out from the lighthouse at Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • Joggers run northward along the shore of Lake Michigan.
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  • People play in the surf along the beach during soft summer light in La Serena, Chile's premier beach resort. La Serena enjoys a transitional climate between the arid northern desert of the Atacama and the pleasant Mediterranean climate of the central coast.
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  • Crumbling walls of Chanquillo dated archeological site 350 BC. that is located just off the Pan American highway north of Lima and just south of Casma.  Several towers surrounded by concentric walls make up the remnants of the fortress. Surrounded by a parched landscape of sand dunes, little is known about the crumbled structure.  <br />
 Lack of funds have kept the archeological site from being excavated but it is believed that the stone walls may have been used for ritual battles rather than real ones.
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  • A cactus forest in the Oaxacan highlands of Mexico. The massive candelabras of the succulent Myrtillocactus geometrizans can grow up to 16 feet tall.
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  • Tourists explore the salt flats near San Pedro, in the Atacama Desert. Salar de Atacama is surrounded by mountains, and has no drainage outlets. Water evaporates leaving small deposits of crusted salt.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large dune in the Atacama Desert a region in north Chile that is considered the driest place on earth. Located between the Andes and Coastal mountains, the parched desert is formed by wind and erosion.
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  • Costumed young dancers move to the beat of a young drummer who blends African and Peruvian rhythms in their living room. The family descended from slaves brought to work in the area's cotton plantations.
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  • Skeletons bleach in the desert sun Chauchilla Cemetery, a burial ground dating from the late Nazca Period from A.D. 500-700. Grave robbers have looted most of the tombs in this  remote spot of southern Peru, scattering bones, garments and pottery shards across the blistering sands. Tourists pay to see some skulls that have been re-arranged. Mummies with hair, teeth and clothing sit in rock walled tomb-like graves facing east.
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  • A businessmen crosses a street where patterns of reflected buildings make a geometric pattern in Chile's bustling capital city.<br />
Approximately three decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping malls, and impressive high-rise architecture.
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  • Restaurant patrons are inspired to join mariachi bands in song at a restaurant  in Garibaldi Plaza. Since the 1920s, traditional musicians have dressed in their finest matching suits and brought their guitars to serenade locals and tourists with heartfelt ballads and earn a few pesos.
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  • A grandmother works picking flowers with her family under the smoking volcano Popocatepetl in nearby Atlixco, flower capital of Mexico.  Workers harvest bouquets of zempazuchitl flowers for Day of the Dead celebrations.  Fields full of yellow flowers are cultivated to decorate altars and graves for the Mexican fiesta.
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  • Homeward-bound farm families loaded with food and possessions, crowd into the flatbed of a pickup truck taxi as the open-air market in Xilitla draws to and end. In one of the largest ethnic Huastec Indian towns, each Sunday morning the narrow cobbled streets fill with stalls selling locally grown coffee, sugarcane, incense and corn tamales from the market.
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  • Huastec Indian seller and an indigenous woman haggle over the price of a pig at the local outdoor market held every Sunday morning in Ciudad Valles.
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  • A curious Nile crocodile inspects a remote camera near South Island.
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  • Children play atop a truckload of dried fish in the village of Selicho.
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  • A man sells mirrors in the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • Masai tribesman cooking meat over a smoking fire.
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  • Newborn in doctor's and nurse's hands.
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  • Boy prepared for surgery at a volunteer clinic.
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  • Tetanus vaccinations in the village of Dambai at a volunteer clinic.
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  • Newborn baby in doctor's hands.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • Nurse and doctor holding a just born baby.
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  • Overcome by religious frenzy, men help a woman lying on the ground.
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  • A woman swoons at a religious ceremony.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • The Kakuma Refugee Camp is near Lake Turkana and the northern border of Kenya. 123K  people have lived in this camp since the beginning of the war between Sudan and Ethiopia and have continued to live there thru the 20 year conflict in South Sudan. The town of Kakuma has grown to 70,000 because of the UN presence. Turkana are the local tribal people and would normally be agrarian but they now spend their time cutting firewood and making charcoal for the refugees in the camp. The exchange is generally for food. There are many Nuer and Dinkas in this camp as well as DRC folks from Kivu and Goma primarily.
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  • Crocs on South Island. Lake Turkana has the highest concentration of Nile Crocodiles in the world. There are a number of species that exist in Lake Turkana that came from the Nile before that river changed course. Now the only water supply for Lake Turkana is the Omo River that is being dammed by Ethiopia. The concern is Lake Turkana will become a version of the Aral Sea that dried up under similar conditions in the 2010's.
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  • Tourists are drawn to El Tatio, a geothermal field with geysers north of San Pedro at 4300 meters above sea level located in the Andes Mountains in the Atacama Desert.  More than 70 geysers and fumaroles spew hot water and steam as the sun rises in Chile near the Bolivian border.
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  • Riverfront Canine Club members pause along the Dequindre Cut.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large sand dune in the Atacama Desert. Known as the driest place on earth, the desert is also considered the oldest. It has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Camels are decorated with tassels for a camel beauty contest.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A morning commuter along Wicker and the Riverwalk.
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  • Wind and water sculpted desert in the Valle de la Luna. Shadows fall in the Valley of the Moon in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth where the elements have left an array of oddly shaped polychrome forms in the desolate, eroded desert landscape. The region sometimes goes without recorded precipitation for more than a century.
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  • Main street of the Kakuma refugee camp.
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  • Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Fall, has a 75-foot drop as the waterfall flows through Mexico's largest preserve, Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.
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  • The Guardian Building doorman admires the vaulted Art Deco ceiling.
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  • Owner of 'Good Girls Go to Paris' creperie in Detroit.
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  • Women sing out 'Stop in the Name of Love' in the spot where Diana Ross recorded the song.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A couple enjoys a private moment at an outdoor restaurant.
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  • A woman admires fluorescent jellyfish in the lobby of Hotel Victor.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Fall, has a 75-foot drop as the waterfall flows through Mexico's largest preserve, Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.
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  • Bunch grass clumps grow in the arid landscape near the El Tatio geysers in the Atacama Desert.
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  • A young lady mans the ticket window at the Sun Pictures theater.
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  • An altar boy holds a candle inside a dimly-lit church.
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