14 Feb 2012

Myanmar (Burma)



Baby and granny on Inle Lake

Some of the vivid orange blossom found on our cycles

Inle lake at 6:30am

Early morning  fisherman

Giving us a demonstration of leg rowing

Bit of bean business

Sophie buys a Shan tribal necklace

Young monks taking a break

Schoolgirl showing us her traditional Burmese makeup 

Floating village

Floating garden

Monk-taught jumping cats perform in their monastery

Sophie on the boat

Our guide for the day

Well-dressed children at the gates to Old Bagan

Big Buddha, little buddha

Bagan plain (1000s of temples and pagodas)

Very old fresco inside a temple

All this food - for 1.50 each!

Bagan at 6am from an abandoned pagoda

Sunrise ballooning overhead

Up, up and away

Downtown in ex-colonial Yangon

Green Goblin

Shwedagon Pagoda - covered in gold leaf

Sunflowers and friends

Life in the Monastery

Jake and Myo, the Arsenal-supporting monk

65m long reclining Buddha

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