Mandalay Hill

On the Mandalay Hill  we were admiring a great monastery and people working at its renewal. From the hill we could enjoy a beautiful panorama which confirmed the enormity of city with more than one million inhabitants.   We are leaving out the names of the monasteries, temples and stupas, because ...

Mandalay and its life

Mandalay on the Irrawaddy River is the second largest city in Burma. In the nineteenth century it was briefly the capital of the country. The city has about a hundred workshops making votive gold flakes. This job involves many hours of ponding a plate of gold, until it become a very thin flake. The...

Burma or Myanmar

The country has eight nationalities (called here the races), and in each there are varying ethnic groups which total up to 165! Hence permanent deep social and political separations, and in the past, for those reasons, the country had easily surrendered to the British colonization.   At present, B...

Again in Yangon

After the mornings' chill in the Inle Lake area we are getting into the tiring heat of Yangon. This time we are sightseeing this city in daytime and we conclude that it is an amazing mixture of all the Asian colours, which strongly impact our eyes. This bustling, noisy, filled with ...

The people and their matters 1

1. A weekly market Once a week in each of five villages on the lake's coast takes pkace a market We went there with Mr Thun Thun across the lake in his boat and just after an hour we found ourselves amongst a colourful crowd of the locals and tourists from all over the world. ...

Lake Inle 3

Over a hundred thousands people live on the water in stilt-houses.  There are four large villages on the lake and a dozen samller ones surrounding the big ones. Actually, looking at the pictures there's no need for their descrioption. The villages on the water live according to the ...

Lake Inle 2

2. Working on Inle Lake The lake provides a living to hundreds of thousands inhabitans of central-eastern Myanmar. First, we would like to show what their work looks like, however spectacular in the pictures, hard to all the people who have no access to contemporary technology. Wron...