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Hot air balloons float over the landscape
June 10, 2011
Balloon Flight, Bagan
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Floating over the 2,300 temples at dawn in Bagan, Myanmar, at Christmas, 2010
(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.)
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