A group of young #Buddhist#monks lines up to receive donations at #Bhaktapur on Thursday on the occasion of #PanchaDaan festival. During this festival, #Buddhists of #Newar community gives away five elements also known as five summer gifts including wheat grains, rice grains, salt, money and fruit to the priests. The gigantic antique statues of Deity #DipankarBuddha are displayed during the occasion. According to #LunarCalender, this festival falls on #Triyodashi, two days before the Father Day
📷:Amit Machamasi / Zuma / Avalon
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A #parrot is already finished, on a part of the 270-square-meter #mural created by #artist#OscarOlivares The mural is created with the help of local residents and is expected to become the largest in the world. The artwork is created from various #plastic parts such as lids of #bottles that are pressed into still wet cement. Venezuela, Guatire
📷:Pedro Rances Mattey
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#Ukrainians residing in #Peru, carrying #flags, gather at #VillenaBridge in the district of Miraflores in Lima Illuminated with the colours of the #Ukrainianflag, as a tribute to its #IndependenceDay and as a show of solidarity from Peru to the #Ukrainian
people
📷:Carlos Garcia Granthon / Zuma / Avalon
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#PreHispanic#dancer disguised as #Aztec#warrior takes part in a #ritual at #Temple ruins to highlight the importance of the rehabilitation of #LakeTlahuac-Xico for the sanitation and purification of water, environmental restoration
📷:Gerardo Vieyra/Zuma/Avalon
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The 302 metre high #chimney of the #Chemnitz combined heat and #powerplant in #Saxony, Germany, is lit in #rainbow#colours The 18000 square meter outer shell was designed by the French artist #DanielBuren
📷:Hendrik Schmidt
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