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A rainy mountain pilgrimage scene at a stone-walled roadside stop beside a river gorge. Several riders sit on mules and horses along a metal barrier path, including a woman in a white shawl with an orange wrap seated on a saddled mule and a rider in an orange shawl. Men in orange and grey clothing, dark rain jackets, and a man in a white rain cape stand and walk among the animals. A man in a light blue jacket and a man in a blue jacket hold a conversation. A large orange umbrella is raised above one rider, and a blue tarpaulin covers a rock overhang behind the wall painted pink-red. Trees and shrubs line the foreground.

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