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Fishermen with their raft passing the river in Roxas, Panay, Philippines.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are carrying freshly cut grass to feed the animals. The embankment is too steep and too intricate to be worked with mowers and cars. Even the donkeys wait for their burden on the top of the slope; women have to cut the grass by hand and carry it to the top themselves. Some, who do not own donkeys, carry their burden home on their backs and have to repeat the process several times.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are loading the grass on the donkey's back. Some women, who do not own donkeys, carry their burden home on their backs and have to repeat the process several times.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are loading the grass on the donkey's back. Some women, who do not own donkeys, carry their burden home on their backs and have to repeat the process several times.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are loading the grass on the donkey's back. Some women, who do not own donkeys, carry their burden home on their backs and have to repeat the process several times.

Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) is loading the grass on the donkey's back. Some women, who do not own donkeys, carry their burden home on their backs and have to repeat the process several times.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are walking back to their village with the two donkeys loaded with freshly cut weed. Strings of fluffy wool slide between their fingers and obediently lie down on swiftly turned spools, which are not unlike integral parts of their hands.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) is walking back to their village with the two donkeys loaded with freshly cut weed. She constantly spins wool, whenever her hands are free.

Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) is walking back to the village with a donkey loaded with freshly cut weed. She constantly spins wool, whenever her hands are free.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are walking back to their village with the two donkeys loaded with freshly cut weed. Strings of fluffy wool slide between their fingers and obediently lie down on swiftly turned spools, which are not unlike integral parts of their hands.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are walking back to their village with the two donkeys loaded with freshly cut weed. Strings of fluffy wool slide between their fingers and obediently lie down on swiftly turned spools, which are not unlike integral parts of their hands.

Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50)is walking back to the village with the donkey loaded with freshly cut weed.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) is feeding her animals with freshly cut weed, Salasaca, Ecuador.

Sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and a kitten in her land, Salasaca, Ecuador.

Tools that sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) use to cut, bind and carry the weed.

one of the tools that sisters Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) use to bind and carry the weed.

Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) is picking the corn for dinner after feeding her animals in Salasaca, Ecuador.
Salasaca district in Tungurava province, Equador, takes up only 12 square kilometers, but has preserved strong identity of the local inhabitants, as well as authentic culture and customs.

Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) and Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) are picking the corn for dinner after feeding her animals in Salasaca, Ecuador.

Martina Masaquiza Sailema (50) is cooking dinner in the kitchen of her house, in Salasaca, Ecuador.

Luz Maria Masaquiza Sailema (38) is walking down to the river to grass grass and spinning wooly ran on the way.

A man stands in the waters of the Ping river while pushing the lantern along the river stream during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Street vendor checking her phone while waiting for customers to purchase her Krathongs, decorated baskets which are then floated on a river.

A local boat sails on the Ping river during the celebration of the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Two local girls light the river lanterns before offering them to symbolize the drifting away of bad luck and misfortune during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A big parade held on the last day of the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where dozens of similar parades take place around the city.

A big Krathong parade chart pass nearby Chinatown during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Local boys stage an ancient spade fight in the parade lines during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A parade during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A parade during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

One young boy during the celebrations of the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A poster of the Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Consort Sirikit during the celebrations the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A tourist launches a sky lantern at Tapae Gate during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A couple launches a sky lantern, also known as Khom Fai, nearby Tapae Gate during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A local man launches a sky lantern also known as Khom Fai during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A boy offers decorated basket (or Krathong) to the river and pushes it to make it flow with the current during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The focus of celebrations in Chiang Mai is around the Saphan Nawarat Bridge on the Ping river banks. People release lanterns into the river and sky during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Local women dance during a contest held inside the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Fireworks and sky lanterns mix in the sky during the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Lake Maracaibo and Ologá Village shot by drone

Rescue work footage after floods hit the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan on July 27th, 2015.