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    Travel Photography Scholarship 2011 Entry

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    As younger villagers move away to cities and the ones still dedicated to their farmland move into square box homes in the valley (in order to be closer to the spring as the water table dries up) the beautiful traditional yao, energy-efficient cave-homes dug into the hillsides, are crumbling back into the earth, burying the ancient village traditions and ways of life inside them. Views[132] Traditional village weddings are changing and becoming more Westernized, but are not yet altogether eradicated. Here, musicians in a wedding band take a break in the shade. They have accompanied the bride as she rides on a donkey from her house to her husband’s house where she will now live. Each of them was taught by his father how to play his instrument and the traditional types of music. Views[147]    

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