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Pictures of villages [last update 2011-12-25]


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Children in a Loita-Purko village near the Loita Hills

(Kenya)


Geometric designs on a building in Esna



Dani man cutting into a roast pig using a bamboo knife



Arovana (Ankorohoke), a Vezo fishing village



Agricultural village outside Shangri-la

(China)


Akavandra village children (Ankavandra)


Deforestation behind a Lao village
Deforestation behind a Lao village

(Laos)


Village in the Tsaranoro Valley



Sentani girl in a canoe


Roosters for sale at market in Rantepao (Toraja Land (Torajaland); Sulawesi)
Roosters for sale at market in Rantepao

(Indonesia)


Kids in village outside of Tulear



Houses on Lake Sentani


Woman raking drying rice at Palawa village (Toraja Land (Torajaland); Sulawesi)
Woman raking drying rice at Palawa village

(Indonesia)


La Rive Droite, Madagascar



Malagasy kids



Small village in Isalo National Park (Isalo)



Men repairing a grass roof in the Antanifotsy Valley



Aerial view of a remote Turkana settlement

(Kenya)


Kids playing with a wire toy in Kusrap

(China)


Boy along road in Morondava (Morondava)



Baobabs (Morondava)



River community on the Kinabantagan River in Sabah Malaysia



Vezo fishing canoes


Hmong child
Hmong child

(Laos)


Rice fields in the Antanifotsy Valley



Vezo boy with guitar in Arovana (Ankorohoke)



Papuan kids



Dani men in ceremonial battle



Badougbe Village school



Terraced rice paddies Madagascar's Central Highlands



Valley along the road from Tana to Moramanga


Pov pob, a traditional ball-tossing courtship game
Pov pob, a traditional ball-tossing courtship game

(Laos)


Vezo boy in Arovana (Ankorohoke)



Arovana (Ankorohoke), a Vezo fishing village



Moringa drouhardii



Ice breaking


Monks in a Lao village
Monks in a Lao village

(Laos)


Stone and adobe home in China

(China)


Brick-making in the rice fields of Madagascar



Turkana

(Kenya)

Hmong children in Laos
Hmong children in Laos

(Laos)


Maasai manyatta

(Kenya)


Maasai settlement as seen from an airplane

(Tanzania)


Dani men in ceremonial battle


Villagers collecting riverweek in the Nam Tha River
Villagers collecting riverweek in the Nam Tha River

(Laos)

Road-straddling village in Laos, many villages have been relocated closer to new roads
Road-straddling village in Laos, many villages have been relocated closer to new roads

(Laos)


Zebu and rice



Sentani bark paintings



Men loading sardines for export into the back of a pickup truck



Women washing clothes along the Nile



Ranohira village near the Isalo massif


Construction of a traditional house in Palawa (Toraja Land (Torajaland); Sulawesi)
Construction of a traditional house in Palawa

(Indonesia)


Dani man



Rosewood logs on the beach at Maroantsetra



Traditional homes in Botswana


Kids and mothers along the highway in Uganda
Kids and mothers along the highway in Uganda

(Uganda)


Mummy in New Guinea



Lani man carrying firewood



Yunnan road

(China)


Turkana

(Kenya)

Monk on the Nam Tha river
Monk on the Nam Tha river

(Laos)


Men loading sardines for export into the back of a pickup truck



Dani man working in his field



Kwamalasamutu

(Suriname)


Children in a Loita-Purko village near the Loita Hills

(Kenya)

Village near NEPL
Village near NEPL

(Laos)


Children in an Antanifotsy Valley village



Vezo kids in Arovana (Ankorohoke)



Dani men in ceremonial battle



Center of Rantepao



Kids walking to school along the Karakoram highway

(China)

Weavers at Ayllunchispa Taqin
Weavers at Ayllunchispa Taqin



Father and son playing in sand (Isalo)



Girl in Vergel



Rice fields in the Antanifotsy Valley



Village near Fort Dauphin (Berenty-Fort Dauphin)



Vezo children walking near mangroves



belo tsiribihina (Kirindy)


Deforestation in Laos
Deforestation in Laos

(Laos)


Dani man starting a fire with fiber and kindle



New style Turkana grass huts

(Kenya)


Blacksmiths working with metal


Village along Route 3
Village along Route 3

(Laos)


Construction of a traditional house in Palawa



Mausoleum in Tashkurgan; near the ruined fort

(China)


Heavily overloaded Peugeot in Madagascar



Brick house along RN7


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