Restful Photos of Sleep Around the World
Published 9 Apr 2021, 12:18 BST
In the shade of their tent members of a Tuareg family doze through midday heat near Timbuktu in drought-stricken Mali.
Teens nap on the beach during the Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association's State Championship.
Children rest during treatment in a Ukrainian hospital that once housed author Leo Tolstoy.
A man catches a lunch-hour nap in New York's Central Park before going back work.
After getting married in a mass wedding ceremony, a bridegroom in Taiwan takes a rest.
A boy cuddles up to his dog in a dairy farm in New Brunswick, Canada.
A factory worker takes a break in an unfinished refrigerator in Gerli, Argentine.
A grandmother watches her two young grandchildren sleep in Sardinia, Italy.
Photograph by Gianluca Colla
In China's Tiexi Industrial District, a man smokes a cigarette while his bedridden father sleeps beside him.
A hiker rests on a fallen tree while walking through Tasmania's Overland track.
An American girl in a princess dress rests on a sofa.
Workers take a break in the remote IL Ranch in Nevada in 1979.
An exhausted passenger catches some shuteye on a ferry across Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania.
A man rests against supply crates in Antarctica as the rest of the crew prepares for a flight.
A mother polar bear guards her cubs even while asleep among the evergreens in snowy Canada.
Four sisters in Miami, Florida, get some sleep on the same bed.
A man dozes off next to a table of food during the celebration of Kolyadki, a pagan holiday that coincides with Orthodox Christmas.