Every year, at the last day of the Ramadan, villager women visit the each house to collect the meal ingredients.

Xian's Muslim population is numbered at about 150 000 and they pray in 17 mosques throughout the city.

Dali City, is the county-level seat of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan, its former name Xiaguan

Kukeri is an elaborately costumed man who performs traditional rituals intended to scare away evil.

A fishing method of thousands of years that continues today in the bays of Izmir in the Aegean.

The bride and groom wearing Indian clothes were danced in front of the guests with a scarf attached to the neck of the groom.

Traditional camel wrestling is one of the important events of Western Anatolia.

Opponents control each other at the wrestling. He tries to keep him from a weak point.

Teenage Roma girls match up with their future husbands at open-air activity in Bulgaria.

A culture based on hundreds of years of professional group and unwritten rules still exists today in small workshops.

Olives crushed by horse power in the mill are filled in hair sacks and would be squeezed by hand.

We met with Ismail and his wife at 4 a.m. early in the morning at dark and went to the field together.