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Miao New Year, Guizhou-China

One of the most populous groups of ethnic minorities is the Miao and they celebrate over 20 festivals in one year in Guizhou. This itinerary concentrates on catching these festivals when the villages are at its colorful best with local girls dressing up in the stunning costumes with brilliant display of their embroidery and silvers. [...]

Lusheng Festival, Guizhou-China

The Lusheng Festival, hundreds of the lusheng (bamboo-pipe instruments) in dozens of groups are simultaneously played and the music is reverberating far and wide. Hundreds and thousands of the Miao girls wearing silver-decorated clothes and head ornaments are dancing together to the rhythms, forming one circle after another together on the lusheng playing ground, and [...]