PERU, CUSCU: Moonrise over Cusco, Peru, as lights begin to come on in the city.
PERU, MACHU PICCHU: Llama standing in front of Machu Picchu beside the Caretaker's Hut with Huayna Picchu in the background and the Urubamba river below. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It was built around 1460 AD but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
HONDURAS, BONETE: Gloria, a young Chorti Maya girl living in a remote farming village in the mountains of Honduras, dances as rain begins to fall in the rainy season.
INDIA, HARIDWAR: Two boys playing marbles by the railroad track in Haridwar, holy Hindu city on the Ganges River.
INDIA, MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA: Colorful market street in Mumbai with Hindu flower garlands, Muslim halil chicken store, and A to Z vegetables with free home delivery.
CHINA, BEIJING: Line of red canopied Chinese rickshaws or pedicabs and their drivers wait for tourists in the Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing.
CHINA, BEIJING: Construction workers' lunch pots ready with chopsticks, a street scene in Beijing.
CHINA, SHANGHAI: A rainy day in Shanghai on a walking street south of the city.
CHINA, Chuandixia: Flag of the People's Republic of China flying above the tile rooftops and courtyards of traditional stone communal farmhouses in the rural ancient mountain village of Chuandixia.
CHINA, ChuanDiXia: Entrance to traditional stone and wood farmhouse that has been converted to a guesthouse in the rural ancient mountain village of ChuanDiXia.
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