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Emptying one pool after another, Vietnamese saltwork laborers finally get to the salt.
The crystallization of salt depends on regulating the water flow into the evaporation pools.
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Pupils of the ceramics school in Dehua - where the best porcelain in China is produced - copy the bust of a Western boy.
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Outside the Labrang monastery in Tibet, many food stands sell sunflower seed, soya beans and noodles.
Holding out their bowls, worshippers wait for holy water drawn from the Living Buddha's well. Labrang Monastery, Tibet.
On festival days, the monastery fills with monks, worshippers and tourists to watch the dancing in the center of the large sq...
Heedless of the blizzard, the monks of Labrang await the start of morning prayers.
The trapa, (novices) enter the monastery around the age of six and become gelong (monks) when they reach adulthood.
The ciak is probably the most demanding form of pilgrimage in the world. Prostrating themselves fully, worshippers cover tens...
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Music lesson for Labrang's monks using the traditional 13-foot horns. Tibet.
Monks of all ages wait for morning prayers and the only meal of the day.
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Dawn in Qinghai reveals the Tibetan Plateau's dramatically beautiful skyline. Beyond these mountains of the towering Tibetan...
Heedless of the blizzard, the monks of Labrang await the start of morning prayers.
A portrait of a woman from Xiahe wearing an adorned silk dress with a heavy necklace of coral
In preparation of a wedding banquet in the village of Shazun, Yunnan, the pig is placed on the fire to burn off the bristles,...
Bagan is also called "Valley of the Thousand Temples," but in the Middle Ages there were 13,000 stupas.
Sunset gives Bagan a mysterious timeless charm.
Farmers moonlight during the dry season prospecting for gold along the banks of the Mekong. Most of the panners are women and...
Rice sifting in Pak Beng, a village not far from the Mekong river's big Laotian loop.
The inhospitable gorges carved by the Mekong near Lanping, in northern Yunnan, keep the river unused and unnavigale until its...
A Chinese farmer returning home from the market crosses a narrow rope suspension bridge strung across a ravine. The Mekong Ri...
Her wares on her back, a vendor - of the Bai tribe - takes her vegetables to Zhouchang Market on the shores of Erhai Lake. Zh...
The Great Wall of China at Jinshaling, north of Beijing
Bai Woman trasplant rice for oneof the annual harvest, Yunnan, China
Bai woman transplanting rice for one of the annual harvests in Yunnan, China
The village of Xizhou in China's Yunnan province, with its distinctive Bai-style houses build around a central courtyard, ove...
Once the rice crop is planted, the Bai tribe celebrates the Rao Shao Lin festival in Qindong Village in Dali. Bai women pray...
A communal meal in the village of Shazun, China.
Preparation of a wedding banquet in the village of Shazun, Yunnan. The pig is placed on the fire to burn off the bristles, th...
Cormorant fishermen on Erhai Lake, which forms an important part of the Mekong's watershed, train their birds to retrieve the...
Women of the Mosuo minority are rowing towards the Lugu Lake monastery, in Yunnan, China.
Foot binding in Yunnan, China. Abolished for decades, the feet of elderly women are sometimes still marked by binding.
"Tea: the green gold of China." Woman and girl harvesting pekoe, the tender tea leaves, in Yunnan.
Morning traffic on an avenue in Yaan in Sichuan provence.
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The skimming light floods the valley of Bagan with gold, Myanmar.
A woman from the Yao ethnic group displays a dazzling set of gold teeth
Incense and ritual 'lucky charm' banknotes are burned in the Taoist temple.
Insense is burned at a Taoist temple.
Mist erases all indications of time around the Marco Polo Bridge, Suzhou, China.
Chinese opera enthusiasts rehearse in a pavilion on the canal built by Emperor Qian Long.
Fishing in the tranquil waters of the Shouxi Lake in Yangzhou, China.