Solstice celebrations
June 22nd 2011 01:44
June 21 marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, and the winter solstice in the southern. A look at how people across the world celebrate this changing of the seasons.
Aymara people prepare an offering to mother earth during the sunrise of the winter solstice ceremony in La Apacheta, El Alto in the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia June 21, 2011. The solstice coincides with the Aymara Indian New Year.
REUTERS/Gaston Brito
More on the link include Stonehenge but I thought this photograph had particular appeal
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