Women performing Chhath Puja, a festival dedicated to the Sun God, considered to be a means to thank the sun for bestowing the bounties of life in earth and fulfilling particular wishes, at Queen's pond in Kathmandu. During the festival, people go to bathing ghats on river banks. November 16, 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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