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05 APRIL 2013 - CHIANG MAI, THAILAND: Thai girls in traditional clothes play on a swing set at Wat Pa Pao. Their brothers are being ordained as Buddhist novices during the Poi Sang Long festival at the temple. The Poi Sang Long Festival at Wat Pa Pao in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is an annual festival that marks the ordination of boys in the temple as novice monks. Hundreds of people attend the festival, which is marked by the boys wearing garish makeup and being carried through the temple grounds on the shoulders of older men while musicians play drums and cymbals. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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05 APRIL 2013 - CHIANG MAI, THAILAND: Thai girls in traditional clothes play on a swing set at Wat Pa Pao. Their brothers are being ordained as Buddhist novices during the Poi Sang Long festival at the temple. The Poi Sang Long Festival at Wat Pa Pao in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is an annual festival that marks the ordination of boys in the temple as novice monks. Hundreds of people attend the festival, which is marked by the boys wearing garish makeup and being carried through the temple grounds on the shoulders of older men while musicians play drums and cymbals. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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