def search_for_destination_images(query: str) -> list:
    """
    Searches DuckDuckGo Images for the query and returns a list of image URLs.
    """
    try:
        res = requests.get(f"https://duckduckgo.com/?q={query.replace(' ', '+')}&iar=images&iax=images")
        soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
        imgs = soup.select("img.tile--img__img")[:5]
        return [img.get("src") for img in imgs if img.get("src")]
    except Exception as e:
        return [f"Image search failed: {e}"]

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