A man smokes a water pipe sitting on a bench with his pet parrot at the Ain al Mreisseh seaside promenade in Beirut on June 28, 2024. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)

Lush green rice terraces sprawl over 2,200 hectares of mountainside ready to be harvested. These stunning images, captured by photographer Saravut Whanset, show the incredible terraces throughout the course of the day, including at sunrise and sunset. Workers tend to the fields, with each terrace between 1 and 1.5 metres wide, while wooden huts stand on stilts on the mountainside. The beautiful panoramic pictures were taken in Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam, with the fields located at the foot of the Hoang Lien Son mountain range, 1,000 metres above sea level. (Photo by Saravut Whanset/Solent News and Photo Agency)

Dancers from Tokyo wearing traditional costumes perform during a celebration event, a day before Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako's royal parade in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan November 9, 2019. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)

Young girls attend a training session in MGFSO Olympic reserve school in Moscow on May 30, 2016. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)

An Indian Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, performs a yoga position on International Yoga Day at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Friday, June 21, 2019. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)

A handout photo made available by Limex Images of Pete McLeod of Canada (R) and Kirby Chambliss of the United States flying over the city of Kazan prior to the fifth stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Russia on August 22, 2018. (Photo by Joerg Mitter/EPA/EFE/Limex Images)

A group of people are seen on a Victoria line train in London, England during the first night of the Night Tube service on August 19 2016. The Central line and Victoria line are the first to operate a Night service with further lines expected to be running by the end of the year. (Photo by SWNS.com)

A stroller walks his dogs in an autumnally colored forest in Cuxhaven, nothern Germany on November 7, 2018. (Photo by Patrik Stollarz/AFP Photo)