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New on 500px : Follow the red path by eweliyi by eweliyi

This is Fushimi Inari temple in Kyoto. You can sponsor these gates and they will put your name on the one you sponsor.

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New on 500px : Búðir: at the end of the road by Carlosmacr by Carlosmacr

During our trip in Iceland, we found many interesting and lovely small churches. This is one of them , maybe one of the most popular.

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New on 500px : Timeless Village by roberto_pazzi by roberto_pazzi

The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi (Indonesia).
Torajans are renowned for their massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan (the buildings in the picture).
Kete’ Kesu, the village in the picture, is one of the oldest Toraja’s villages.
Tongkonan are the traditional Torajan ancestral houses. They stand high on wooden piles, topped with a layered split-bamboo roof shaped in a sweeping curved arc, and they are incised with red, black, and yellow detailed wood carvings on the exterior walls.
Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the outside world. In the early 1900s, Dutch missionaries first worked to convert Torajan highlanders to Christianity.
Today, most of the population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk (“the way”).

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New on 500px : Bonfire by prayer_style by prayer_style

Enjoying a night at the end of the Easter vacation

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New on 500px : Sunset at Key by CoSurvivor by CoSurvivor

Key Monastery – Spiti Valley Himalaya – is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located on top of a hill at an altitude of 4,166 metres (13,668 ft) above sea level, close to the Spiti River, in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is the biggest monastery of Spiti Valley and a religious training centre for Lamas.
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