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  • A cloudy day when the water is calm at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 122.jpg
  • A cloudy day when the water is calm at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 117.jpg
  • A boat on a misty day when the water is calm at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 011.jpg
  • Misty day when the water is calm at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 009.jpg
  • A boat on a misty day when the water is calm at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 015_alamy.jpg
  • Man burning coals in preperation for a barbeque at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 002.jpg
  • Friends sit down for food together beside Lugu Lake in the blue dusk light, Yunnan Province, China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 001.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 050.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels. Four Mo Suo minority men huddled under umbrellas sit sheltering from the rain amongst their crops of rice, corn and potatoes.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 035_alamy.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels. Four Mo Suo minority men huddled under umbrellas sit sheltering from the rain amongst their crops of rice, corn and potatoes.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 033_corbis.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 027.jpg
  • Tibetan monastery and temple at Shi Zi Shan, Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 094.jpg
  • Tibetan monastery and temple at Shi Zi Shan, Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 097.jpg
  • Portrait in the rain of a proud Tibetan monk in red robes at Shi Zi Shan, Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Enveloped in low cloud behind him, he is from the nearby temple.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 065_alamy.jpg
  • House in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 055.jpg
  • Portrait in the rain of a proud Tibetan monk in red robes at Shi Zi Shan, Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Enveloped in low cloud behind him, he is from the nearby temple.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 064_corbis.jpg
  • in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 052_alamy.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 048.jpg
  • Horses feeding in the landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 039.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 037.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 046.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 028.jpg
  • Landscape in the shadow of Shi Zi Shan, or Lion Mountain, near the small settlement of Li Ge on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Crops which have to thrive in the iron rich red soil which erodes all around due to high precipitation levels.
    2005-08- Lugu lake 026.jpg
  • Colourful Guatemalan textiles in Panajachel, the largest settlement on the banks of Lake Atitlan. Lake Atitlan is seen as the most important single tourist attraction in Guatemala; and is Central Americas deepest lake. There are many villages on the banks of the lake; each with different identity and culture; the majority of the population in the region identify as indigenous Maya and many still wear traditional dress and speak Maya languages.
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  • Boats on the banks of Lake Atitlan - a location seen as the most important single tourist attraction in Guatemala, and is Central Americas deepest lake. There are many villages on the banks of the lake, each with different identity and culture, the majority of the population in the region identify as indigenous Maya and many still wear traditional dress and speak Maya languages.
    _DSF0028_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso, 22, shares a joke and an intimate moment with her mother Mu Ze Namu, they belong to the Mo Suo minority / tribe from Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room
    chilugu_048_1.jpg
  • Together with a Mo Suo friend Mu Ze Latso goes down to Lugu Lake to collect  a type of algae / plant which she then feeds to her livestock: hens, ducks,  pigs, cow, etc. northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_030-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso visits a neighbour and mother of the mayor of the village on Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_037_1.jpg
  • Close up of family meal in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_026_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso  prepares lunch at home amidst hanging corns and posters and photos of the Dalai Lama, in village along the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_022_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso, 22,  at home with her parents, Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_039_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso feeds algae from Lugu lake to her chickens, donkey, and cows.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_034_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso working in  the family's courtyard with mother and father and a neighbour's child, close to  Lugu lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_028_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with family have lunch together amid posters of Mao  Zedong and  the Dalai Lama in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_024-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Su traditions. minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walkin
    chilugu_012-2_1.jpg
  • Buying and selling meat from the back of a van at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08-11 059.jpg
  • Minority woman carrying a heavy load at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08-11 006.jpg
  • Inle Lake. Villager rows his boat with the distinctive style of the Intha leg rowers, wrapping one leg around the oar. The style developed as it was necessary to stand while rowing in order to see over the heavy growth of vegetation. Burma 1999
    MAA-021201.008_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso, a Mo Suo minority girl returns home with a large basket strapped to her back containing the algae from the lake which she will then feed to her animals.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_033_1.jpg
  • Buying and selling meat from the back of a van at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08-11 057_alamy.jpg
  • Domestic Chinese tourists buying items from very young hawkers at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08-11 010.jpg
  • Mother with her baby in a basket on her back at Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Lugu Lake is located in the North West Yunnan plateau in the centre of Ninglang Yi Autonomous County in the Peoples Republic of China.
    2005-08-11 009.jpg
  • A lake / kettle bog in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3961.jpg
  • Inle Lake. Villager rows his boat with the distinctive style of the Intha leg rowers, wrapping one leg around the oar. The style developed as it was necessary to stand while rowing in order to see over the heavy growth of vegetation. Burma 1999
    MAA-021201.006_1.jpg
  • Mo Suo minority woman in traditional dress with her horse at Lugu Lake, in Yunnan, China. This is genuine traditional dress worn not for tourism, but as everyday dress. This is a poor run down area with little infrastructure such as roads, hotels or things tourists expect.
    2005-08-11 076_alamy.jpg
  • The sun setting over a lake in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3997.jpg
  • The sun setting over a lake in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3995.jpg
  • A lake / kettle bog in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3978.jpg
  • A lake / kettle bog in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3972.jpg
  • A lake / kettle bog in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3971.jpg
  • A lake / kettle bog in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
    _MG_3952.jpg
  • A lake / kettle bog in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
    _MG_3941.jpg
  • Clearing weed on Inle Lake for use as compost in floating gardens.<br />
Burma 1999
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  • Fishermen at work at day break on Lake Rocha, Uruguay
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  • Namu's Palace, house belongs to Namu a now famous Mo Suo minority  woman whom is a big star on Chinese TV. Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.
    chilugu_056_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with a friend, also from the Mo Suo minority visit a Buddhist temple in Yongning town, north west Yunnan Province, close to Tibetan and Sichuan border.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_049_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Su traditions.
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  • A herdsman travels across the lake on a boat. The Turkana herdsmen have had to change their traditional way of living as pastoralists and learn new skills. Some of the younger men have become fishermen on Lake Turkana.
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  • Mo Suo minority man in traditional dress rowing tourists to a nearby island on Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Mo Suo are one of approximately 56 different minorities which live in Yunnan, a temperate south eastern province of China in the foothills of the Himalayas.
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  • Detail shot of lomg grass as the sun sets in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. .
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  • Detail shot of lomg grass as the sun sets in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. .
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  • A fisherman in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. (Photo by Phil Clarke Hill/In Pictures via Getty Images).
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  • A German fisherman in his boat, in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • A trainline runs through the Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • Detail shot of lomg grass as the sun sets in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. .
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  • Detail shot of lomg grass as the sun sets in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. .
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  • Detail shot of lomg grass as the sun sets in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany. .
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  • A solitary boat in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • A solitary boat in Uckermarkische Seen Natural park, part of the The Feldberg Lake District Nature Park containing large lakes, kettle bogs, and an abundance of plant and animcal species. Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • A watermill in Uckermärkische Seen Natural park, Brandenburg, Germany.
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  • Lake Fiastra in San Lorenzo Al Lago, Umbria, Italy. Lago di Fiastra is a reservoir in the province of Macerata in the Marche region of Italy. It was created in 1955. The Fiastrone flows into the reservoir from the south and exits the reservoir in the northeast part of the lake. The lake is located within Monti Sibillini National Park.
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  • Hikers walk along the trail path to the peak of Blencathra Mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK. In the background is Derwentwater Lake flanked by hills and valleys of the Lake District National Park.
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  • Red Tarn lake high up on the eastern flank of Helvellyn Mountain, English Lake District, Cumbria, UK.  Red Tarn is a glacial lake formed with the glacier that carved our the eastern side of the mountain melted. It is the habitat of the rare and endangered Schelly fish. It is a sunny day, but there is snow on the summit of the mountain.
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  • Thirlmere reservoir surrounded by the beautiful green valley of Wythburn and Armboth Fells taken from the western side of Helvellyn mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.  The reservoir is in the site of a natural lake within the Lake District National Park.
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  • Lake Fiastra in San Lorenzo Al Lago, Umbria, Italy. Lago di Fiastra is a reservoir in the province of Macerata in the Marche region of Italy. It was created in 1955. The Fiastrone flows into the reservoir from the south and exits the reservoir in the northeast part of the lake. The lake is located within Monti Sibillini National Park.
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  • Stunning mountain range of Lake District National Park from western side of Helvellyn Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. It is a bright, sunny day, but there is snow on the ground along the mountain side. Helvellyn is the third-highest point in England and is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park and part of the Eastern Fells.
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  • Three children play poking sticks into the frozen glacial lake below Doddick Fell near the summit of Blencathra Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.  The temperature is so cold and the strong wind caused the water to freeze in wave formations. Two adults walk around the water.
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  • Frozen ripples in a small glacial lake below Doddick Fell near the summit of Blencathra Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. The temperature is so cold and the strong wind caused the water to freeze in wave formations.
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  • Scales Tarn glacial lake beneath Sharp Edge of Blencathra mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK.
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  • Stunning mountain range of Lake District National Park from western side of Helvellyn Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. It is a bright, sunny day, but there is snow on the ground along the mountain side. Helvellyn is the third-highest point in England and is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park and part of the Eastern Fells.
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  • A small cairns, man-made stack of stones, marks the trail for hikers along the path up the western side of Helvellyn Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.  Behind the carins is stunning green valleys of Wythburn and Armboth Fells and Thirlmere reservoir.  Helvellyn is the third-highest point in England and is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park and part of the Eastern Fells.
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  • A red post office delivery van driving down Greenside Road, back down the valley to the village of Glenridding on the shore of Lake Ullswater, The Lake District, United Kingdom.
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  • Stunning mountain range of Lake District National Park from western side of Helvellyn mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. Thirlmere reservoir is at the bottom of the valley and flanked Wythburn and Armboth Fells.
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  • A lone person hikes up the path between Gategill Fell and the summit Hallsfell of Blencathra Mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK.  The beautiful hills and valleys of the Lake District National Park surrounds the mountain. The sky is cloudy and overcast.
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  • A lone person hikes up the path between Gategill Fell and the summit Hallsfell of Blencathra Mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK.  The beautiful hills and valleys of the Lake District National Park surrounds the mountain. The sky is cloudy and overcast.
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  • Three children stop and have a break while walking up a steep path on Helvellyn Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. Helvellyn is the third-highest point in England and is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park and part of the Eastern Fells.
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  • The Trig Point, a concrete ring, at the highest point, Hallsfell spur, of Blencathra Mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK.  Trig Points are the common name for Triangulation Pillars  are used by Ordnance Survey to determine the exact shape of the country by creating direct line of sight to another Trig Point.  The beautiful hills and valleys of the Lake District National Park surrounds the mountain. The sky is cloudy and overcast.
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  • Hikers walk up a steep rugged dirt path of Doddick Fell on Blencathra Fell in Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. The hill is also known as Saddleback and is one of the most northerly hills in the Lake District. The sky is full of clouds.
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  • Groups of people walking along the plateau path towards the summit of Helvellyn Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. It is a bright, sunny day, but there is snow on the mountain side. Helvellyn is the third-highest point in England and is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park and part of the Eastern Fells.
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  • Groups of people walking along the plateau path towards the summit of Helvellyn Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK. It is a bright, sunny day, but there is snow on the mountain side. Helvellyn is the third-highest point in England and is located in the beautiful Lake District National Park and part of the Eastern Fells.
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  • A guest lodge on the top of the hills above Lake Manyara National Park. Manyara district, Tanzania, East Africa.
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  • A guest lodge on the top of the hills above Lake Manyara National Park. Manyara district, Tanzania, East Africa.
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  • Scales Beck flowing stream with drains water from Scales Tarn on the east side of Blencathra into the River Glenderamackin at the valley bottom, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
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  • A rugged footpath along the Scales Beck valley along Blencathra Mountain, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
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  • A group of adult and child hikers descend down a steep path from the summit of Blencathra Mountain, following the Scales Beck valley, Lake District, Cumbria, UK.  The sky is full of clouds and overcast.
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  • Sharp Edge, a knife-edge arete on the east side of Blencathra mountain, Lake Districts, Cumbria, UK. The narrow rock ridge separates Tarn Crag and Foule Crage.
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  • Tourists take a rowing boat trip around Melissani Lake near Sami, Kefalonia, Greece. Kefalonia is an island in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece.
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  • Tourists take a rowing boat trip around Melissani Lake near Sami, Kefalonia, Greece. Kefalonia is an island in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece.
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