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Photo: Colorful bathhouses of Cape Town, South Africa
Photo: Colorful bathhouses of Cape Town, South Africa
Photo: Workers carry a couple to land in Tahiti
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Photo: Housing in the Celebes Sea
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Colorful bathhouses line St. James beach in Cape Town, on South Africa's [Cape] Peninsula’s east coast.

—Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, “The Fairest Cape,” March/April 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine
Photograph by Steve McCurry

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