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Bali Nights | Bradley Winterton | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

“The witch at Batubulan is only illusion,” said the man in the blue headdress and mauve sarong standing beside me in the temple forecourt. “But here she will be for real”

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Carnival of Carnivals | Mark Jolly | Brazil, The Northern Beaches, Pernambuco

Oh beautiful. That's what Olinda means in Portuguese - a wholly appropriate appellation for this sixteenth century hillside jewel, whose narrow cobbled streets lend carnival its particular fervour

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Egungun Festival | Pelu Awofeso

The old man prays silently for a while into his palm, and then he throws cola nuts to the ground for the last time

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Fiesta De La Merce | Christopher Somerville | Spain, Catalunya, Barcelona

Anyone foolish enough to get themselves lost driving a Madrid-registered car during morning rush hour in Barcelona will quickly get a pretty good idea of the self-assertive prickliness of the capital city of Catalunya

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Music and Romance Fill Verona’s Summer Air | Tim Bird | Italy, Veneto, Verona

Between performances, many of the massive theatrical props are stored in the adjacent café-lined Piazza Bra, and tourists pose for photos against a surreal backdrop of Egyptian sphinxes and giant steel-clad warriors.

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Punch Drunk | David Atkinson

It starts with a llama sacrifice and ends with a drunken brawl. In between there are church services, freaky dancing and the consumption of copious amounts of moonshine.

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Sacred Music Festival | Barnaby Rogerson | Morocco, Northern Morocco, Fez

Amongst cushions, a mint-tea tent and an old fountain oozing before a garden pavilion, local Sufi brotherhoods play into the night

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