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Outdoor photograph of a crowded pilgrimage procession climbing a stone-paved hill street lined with multi-storey pink and beige buildings and hillside houses. Foreground: a woman in red top and orange shawl and a man in an orange cap, with a large red and yellow ceremonial banner with embroidered blue floral and bird motifs. Center: a red and yellow umbrella-shaped canopy carried over a group of saffron-robed sadhus and devotees, one holding a gold ceremonial object. An ornate red arch marks the entrance. Many people in saffron, orange and white walk up the path. Crowded and busy, sunny daytime scene.

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