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  • Tourists are drawn to the beauty of Alaska and its glaciers, and some come for the ultimate and most unlikely experience—donning crampons for their wedding on ice.<br />
If the weather cooperates, couples can arrange for a limousine pickup from a cruise ship to the airport for a helicopter flight onto a glacier. They had a traditional ceremony with tuxedo and white wedding dress and extra touches including wedding cake, music, and flowers.<br />
The groom pops the cork on a bottle of champagne provided by the planner who married this couple on the Mendenhall Glacier.
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  • Tourists walk through the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital in the Valley of Oaxaca. Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples – Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs – the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of Monte Albán were literally carved out of the mountain and are the symbols of a sacred topography. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with unique architecture.
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  • Three tourists walk toward the staircase that leads to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacán Aztec site. Teotihuacán was Mexico's biggest ancient city, pre-Columbian and pre-Hispanic empire with perhaps 200,000 people at its peak. <br />
Centuries after its fall, it was still a pilgrimage site for Aztec royalty who believed the gods had sacrificed themselves here to start the sun moving. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most visited archeological site in Mexico.
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  • Tourists climb down steep steps the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital with impressive architectural remains in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico. <br />
It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inhabited over a period of 1,500 years by a succession of peoples – Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs – the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of Monte Albán were literally carved out of the mountain and are the symbols of a sacred topography.
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  • Tourists stand on the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital. It is a large pre-Columbian archeological site including pyramids and terraces in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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  • Tourists don blue jackets and hike in the rain to Mendenhall Glacier through the Tongass National Forest. The region earns its reputation for receiving up to 200 inches of rain a year creating a lush, green and moss-covered environment.
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  • Tourists walk through the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Oaxaca Valley, it is an important archeological site founded in 6th century B.C.
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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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  • American tourists don sombreros and sing with a mariachi band at a cantina bar in Nuevo Laredo, a quirky border town.
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  • The Window on the World amusement park in Shenzhen allows Chinese to travel the world in an afternoon. Behind “Mount Rushmore” in this photo are actors playing Africans in huts and Egyptians at the Great Pyramids of Giza. Historically, during Mao, Chinese have not been able to travel. But for now they have to look at the “Eiffel Tower” and “Mount Rushmore” at Window on the World. Because of China’s one-child policy, instituted in 1978, this is the first generation in the world’s history in which a majority are single children, a group whose solipsistic tendencies have been further encouraged by a growing obsession with consumerism, the Internet, and video games. At the same time, today’s young Chinese are better educated and more worldly than their predecessors. Whereas the so-called Lost Generation that grew up in the Cultural Revolution often struggled to finish high school, today around a quarter of Chinese in their 20s have attended college. The country’s opening to the West has allowed many more of its citizens to satisfy their curiosity about the world: some 37 million will travel overseas in 2007. In the next decade, there will be more Chinese tourists traveling the globe than the combined total of those originating in the U.S. and Europe.
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  • Tourists at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen.
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  • Tourists at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen.
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  • Tourists walk on an outcrop in a wildlife sanctuary, Reserva Nacional de Paracas, Peru. Dunes line the most important wildlife sanctuary, Reserva Nacional de Paracas, on the Peruvian coast known for it's eroded, sculpted rocks and arches and birds and marine life.
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  • This Mexican photographer has been selling Polaroid instant color photographs to tourists at the base of Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Falls, for 50 of his 73 years. The waterfall makes a dramatic 75-foot drop through Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.  The falls and surrounding park are a draw for Mexican families for picnics.
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  • In spite of the 200 inches of rain the area receives every year, nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Alaska, sometimes doubling a town’s population on a summer day. As many as six cruise ships make daily stops - and as many as 500 a year - bringing tourists on the Inside Passage, the route through a network of passages between islands along the coast of Alaska, British Columbia and Washington state. Tourism is Southeast Alaska’s fastest growing industry.<br />
One of the stops in Alaska’s Panhandle is the former logging town of Ketchikan. Travelers can shop for Native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former red-light district during the Gold Rush.
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  • Float planes dock to board and carry tourists, then take off over cruise ships to sightsee glaciers, whales and bears. The Misty Fjords National Monument is one of the area’s major attractions.
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  • Tourists mug for a friend's photograph on the streets of Zermatt.<br />
Zermatt grows from 5 thousand to 20 thousand people from tourism in high season.  There is a tension between welcoming the tourists, which drives the economy, and yet limiting the impact.  Zermatt bans cars from the street—visitors take a train or tax from a nearby town and the streets are filled mostly with foot traffic except a few buses.
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  • A cruise ship docks at Ketchikan's harbor bringing a city full of tourists for shopping and sightseeing. The once logging town is dependent on the growing tourism industry. Nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Alaska, sometimes doubling a town’s population on a summer day. <br />
The ships travel the Inside Passage, a network of waterways between islands along the coast of Alaska, British Columbia and Washington state. <br />
Travelers can shop for native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former red-light district during the Gold Rush. The Misty Fjords National Monument is one of the area’s major attractions.
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  • Tourists are wed on Mendenhall Glacier in the Tongass National Forest. He marks the spot of their ceremony with a GPS while behind them a guide leads hikers up an icy trail. She blissfully basks in the sun as they wait for their helicopter return back to Juneau.
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  • Tourists in cheetah-print dresses take photographs of locals in Jinka.
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  • A woman struggles in wind to photograph tourists on camels on beach.
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  • Tourists at Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry fresco.
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  • Hamar, wearing body paint, stand on stilts and beg from tourists.
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  • Tourists riding camels on the beach under a cloudy sky.
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  • Tourists take photographs inside Ocean Park Aquarium.
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  • A jewelry store with a gold chariot built to attract tourists.
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  • Tourists photographing from minibuses in the Serengeti.
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  • A jewelry store with a gold chariot built to attract tourists.
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  • A Suri boy wearing body paint poses for tourists.
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  • Villagers cover themselves in body paint for tourists.
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  • Passengers line up under the starts to wait to board a cruise ship after a rainy afternoon in the dry season in Alaska's Southeast. Tourism is once again a growing business driving the economy in coastal communities.
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  • A Rapanui dancer entertains tourists.
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  • Tourists diving on Easter Island's reef encounter a fake moai.
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  • Tourists photograph a native dancer in body paint.
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  • A Rapanui impresario takes a break at home while waiting for tourists to arrive at his restaurant.
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  • Winter tourists shop in the posh resort town of Saint Moritz known for it's fashionable, stylish clientele and designer fashions. A hotel pioneer first attracted tourists to the high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland in 1864.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • Prisoners carve Moai in the prison workroom for sale to tourists.
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  • Prisoners carve Moai in the prison workroom for sale to tourists.
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  • A Rapanui sands wooden Moai for sale to tourists.
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  • Prisoners carve Moai in the prison workroom for sale to tourists.
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  • Rapanui dancers perform for tourists.
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  • Tourists with a Rapanui dance group.
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  • A busload of Japanese tourists are directed out after they walk into a private home by mistake in Heidi village. They were touring by bus through Heidiland, which gets its name from Johanna Spryri's fictional book titled "Heidi." The collection of statues depicting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is part of the communities lore.
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  • Tourists gather to wait for a bus on snow-covered streets in trendy Courmayeur. It is a busy ski season in the area of Mont Blanc on the Italian side of the Alps.
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  • Two tourists standing by trees are silhouetted against a night sky.
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  • Japanese tourists gather and take pictures from the main plaza in Zermatt  where they can view the famous near-symmetric pyramidal peak, the Matterhorn. It straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy.
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  • Masai mix with tourists in a bar in Endulen.
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  • A tourist walk on top of a worn pyramid above a tomb and archeological site.<br />
The Huaca Rajada, of Sipán, Peru, is a Moche Pyramid near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, famous for the tomb of the Lord of Sipán, Peru, excavated in 1987. The ruins of Sipán are dated from 50–700 AD, during the Moche culture.
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  • Tourists ride camels on a beach after a rain storm.
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  • Masaai are paid by tourists to pose for photographs.
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  • Tourists pass through steam of Grand Prismatic Spring.
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  • Tourists walking along a lava field in Craters of the Moon National Park.
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  • Japanese tourists visit Heidiland, home of the fictional character Heidi from the book by Johanna Spryri. It is a destination for an idyllic look at the Swiss countryside in the Alps even on a rainy day requiring umbrellas.
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  • A bus is crowded with tourists who ride through the valley of Yosemite National Park.
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  • Tourists view zebras from vehicles.
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  • Some of the 300,000 tourists who visit the Serengeti each year.
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  • Tourists pour into Ngorongoro Crater to stalk African wildlife.
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  • The Inside Passage is a draw for cruise ship passengers to shop and sightsee in Ketchikan. Travelers can shop for Native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores.<br />
Once a logging town, the city now depends on a growing tourism industry. Nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Southeast Alaska every year—sometimes doubling a town’s population in one day.
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  • Nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Alaska, sometimes doubling a town’s population on a summer day. As many as six cruise ships make daily stops in Ketchikan - and as many as 500 a year - bringing tourists on the Inside Passage. Tourism is Southeast Alaska’s fastest growing industry.<br />
Travelers can shop for Native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former logging town.
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  • Dressed in elegant formal wear, a bride and groom walk to the helicopter to fly up onto a glacier for their wedding ceremony in Southeast Alaska.
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  • A bride and groom cut the cake and kiss after their wedding ceremony that was held on the Mendenhall Glacier. Champagne, flowers, music and a linen table cloth set the scene for their atypical, romantic celebration.
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  • Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Pa rk is a bustling town vying for the tourist trade. Among it's attractions: a fi ve-story fiberglass dinosaur and Dolly Parton's Dollywood amusement park.
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  • Visitors view an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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  • Chilean newlyweds in festive paint and feathers celebrate marriage Rapanui style.
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  • Chilean newlyweds in festive paint and feathers celebrate marriage Rapanui style.
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  • Cruise ships dock at Ketchikan's harbor, while another waits its' turn. In spite of the 200 inches of rain the region receives every year, nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Alaska, sometimes doubling a town’s population on a summer day. As many as six cruise ships make daily stops and as many as 500 a year. The Inside Passage is a network of channels between islands along the coast of Alaska, British Columbia and Washington state. Tourism is Southeast Alaska’s fastest growing industry.<br />
The former logging town of Ketchikan, now relies on tourism. Travelers can shop for native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former red-light district during the Gold Rush.
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  • Store window reflections mirror cruise ships arriving to unload shoppers and sightseers in the former logging town of Ketchikan located in Alaska’s Panhandle. Travelers can shop for Native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former red-light district during the Gold Rush.
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  • View of a dramatic, stunted and twisted bare tree on Sentinel Dome.
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  • Tourists carry umbrellas to make their way up snow-covered streets during a winter storm in Fussen, Germany.
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  • A tourist takes a photograph inside the Ocean Park Aquarium.
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  • A lone tourist walks among the El Tatio geysers in the Atacama desert north of San Pedro at 4300 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains. The world's highest geyser field has over 80 active geysers with a steaming field of boiling water that spews and sprays at sunrise leaving white mineral deposits.
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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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  • 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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  • A bride and groom are fitted for crampons before taking a helicopter flight to the Mendenhall Glacier to be married in the icefield.
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  • An overlook viewing modern downtown Santiago, Chile's capital city. 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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  • Sunlight floods the doorway as Christian worshipers file into Lo Vasquez  sanctuary. They walked during a religious pilgrimage to the Catholic cathedral located near both Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile.
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  • A lone hiker climb atop weathered desert sand landscape of driest place on earth. The Atacama Desert sometimes goes more than a century without recorded precipitation. The Atacama Desert is also considered the oldest desert on earth. On the whole, 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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  • Hikers follow a trail in the last light at dusk and climb to the top of weathered desert landscape for a view of the driest place on earth. The Atacama Desert sometimes goes more than a century with no recorded measurable precipitation. The Atacama Desert is considered the oldest desert on earth. On the whole, 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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  • 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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  • A woman browses to shop for tourist postcards depicting the Alps mountain scenery and attractions at a street side stand catering to tourists in Chamonix.
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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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  • A surreal and beautiful setting for the wedding ceremony. A cake and champagne are placed on a table covered with a linen cloth. A camera on a tripod records the couple's wedding vows taken on the Mendenhall Glacier. They said they were married in "God's Cathedral."
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  • A couple steadies themselves with crampons and kiss while waiting for their wedding on the icy Mendenhall Glacier in Southeast Alaska.
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  • People play in the surf in La Serena, Chile's premier beach resort north of Santiago. The white sand beach is rain free nine months of the year and 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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  • A Rapanui dancer applies body paint to a tourist.
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  • A bride picks up the groom for the kiss completing the wedding ceremony. The couple strapped on crampons beneath their formal wear and flew by helicopter onto the Mendenhall Glacier for a memorable experience in Southeast Alaska.
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  • A couple arrives by helicopter and carefully negotiates walking on ice onto the Mendenhall Glacier for their wedding ceremony in Juneau, Alaska.
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  • Saltwater crocodile leaping for a treat from a tourist tour boat.
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  • Free-roaming goats wander near an alpine restaurant in Austria where tourists hike trails through the Alps green, mountain landscape for a lunch destination.
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  • Hikers watch the setting sun and stay into twilight at Delicate Arch, one of spectacular views in Utah's Arches National Park. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches and hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks.
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  • People relax in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, a 15-acre lawn where folks gather to picnic, people-watch and sleep under large Sycamore trees. After Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park, a flock of sheep was added to reinforce the quiet nature. In the 1870s a shepherd drove a flock of sheep across the drive to and from the meadow until they were banished to Brooklyn.
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  • Visitors at Arches National Park in Utah hike along sandstone formations as dark shadows fall across smooth red rocks. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches and hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks.
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  • School children explore a worn pyramid on an archeological site. The Huaca Rajada, of Sipán, Peru, is a Moche Pyramid near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, famous for the tomb of the Lord of Sipán, Peru excavated in 1987. The ruins of Sipán are dated from 50–700 AD, during the Moche culture.
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  • A pedestrian shopping area in downtown Guangzhou at night.
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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 freshly engaged couple on 150-foot-tall ferris wheel on Navy Pier.
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  • A couple rides in a limousine to the airport to take a helicopter to the Mendenhall Glacier for their wedding. Holding flowers for the ceremony, they share a warm moment in anticipation of the event.
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  • Wildebeests cross road in front of jeep.
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  • Hands clasped, a couple shows their rings after the wedding on Mendenhall Glacier.
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