A woman is overtaken with emotion/spirituality during Thaipusam and faints. The elder women care for her.
Pulling a heavy chariot to the temple as an offering. A painful looking process.
Young girl takes a nap during the colorful festivities
A family member getting pierced for the pilgrimage to the temple. The container is a small milk pot pierced into the skin.
Bullfighting at more than 3500 metres above sea level in the Andes.
Milk spills out of the milk pots that are being carried as offerings.
Thaipusam Festival - fruit hangs from people's backs pierced into the flesh.
A man carrying the burden of a kavati for his family.
During Thaipusam, the piercing burdens were weighted down with offereings of fruit.