Every spring calla lilies are the main attraction for hordes of flower-picking visitors to Bamboo Lake
By Ron Brownlow
Of the millions of calla lilies produced in Taiwan each year, more than half grow on farms near Bamboo Lake (Zhuzihu, 竹子湖), in Yangmingshan National Park. Each weekend in early spring, thousands of visitors make the long, automobile-choked trek up the mountain to pick lilies, eat mountain food and pose for wedding pictures in a sea of white flowers.

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The island has been implementing Islamic 'Shariah' law, but there still seems to be room for individuality
Her face heavily made-up, Bella Saphira struts a darkened length of cement path along the Krueng Aceh river in Indonesia's Banda Aceh, wearing a loosely flowing dress but no Islamic veil.

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