A photograph of a windswept high-altitude plain beside a large pale lake under a broad sky of cumulus clouds. Long strings of multicoloured prayer flags stretch across the frame, their red, yellow, green, blue and white cloth snapping in the wind from wooden poles set in dry grassland and gravel. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a windswept high-altitude plain beside a large pale lake under a broad sky of cumulus clouds. Long strings of multicoloured prayer flags stretch across the frame, their red, yellow, green, blue and white cloth snapping in the wind from wooden poles set in dry grassland and gravel. No people are visible.

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