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Winning photos from NatGeo Traveler contest


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This image was shot in the Kyrgyz lands of the Wakhan Corridor. The intimacy of this everyday life moment, shot inside of a family yurt, is in total contrast with the harsh environment these nomadic tribes live in. On the right we notice a television and a sound console.

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H'Mong minority children were playing their ballons on the foggy day in Moc Chau - Ha Giang province Viet Nam Shooting time Jan 2012.

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During the Easter holy celebration called 'Misteri' (mistery) in Trapani, the devotees carry the scenes of Christís passion on their shoulders all night long. When the day comes they take a break.

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Near the city of Morondava, on the West coast of Madagascar lies an ancient forest of Baobab trees. Unique to Madagascar, the endemic species is sacred to the Malagasy people, and rightly so.

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The Last Supper of Da Vinci? No, they are just some oldmen of Chefchaouen with djellaba, sitting and talking each other.

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My sister in the south of Chile. We are sitting at home next to the fireplace in our southern lake house when it suddenly began to pour uncontrollably. Had to rush into the lake to take this snapshot!

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The village of G•sadalur and the island of Mykines in the background. Until a tunnel was built in 2004, the 16 residents living in G•sadalur had to take a strenuous hike or horseback over the steep 400 meter mountain in order to make it to the other villages.

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This is the great Japanese maple tree in the Portland Japanese Gardens. I tried to bring a different perspective of this frequently photographed tree.

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More than 2,000 Buddhist temples and pagados fill the plains of Bagan. Once the capital of the Pagan Empire, farmers now raise their livestock within the centuries old complex.

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Taken at Cloud Break at an outer reef in Fiji, a surfer duck dives his board to clear the rolling waves of the raw ocean.

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A lonely cabin is illuminated under the Northern Lights in Finmmark, Norway.

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