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Hanging decorations of woven palm-leaf stars and bamboo-like fronds strung with orange, yellow and red flower rosettes, dangling from a rope against a misty, wooded hillside. Below, a row of colourful striped cloth canopies and stage lighting rigs stand in front of a red-roofed shrine with a small sign. Strings of small paper lanterns or lamps stretch across the sky. No people are visible.

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