tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31308601609512766372024-03-21T21:02:25.434-07:00Myanmar AdventuresAnne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-39313076623002145822015-02-24T01:48:00.001-08:002015-02-24T01:48:48.418-08:00Golden RockWe left Yangon on a Saturday morning and arrived at the foot of Golden rock in about 4.5 hours. It was too hot to head for the top in an open truck so we decided to get up the next morning early when it would be cooler. The rock, a 7.5 meter high piece of granite is perched high on a cliff, held in place by the hair of the Buddha which he gave to a hermit during his lifetime. Over the years the rock has been completely covered with gold leaf by the pilgrims who come in large numbers to visit this very sacred site. Only men are allowed to touch the rock. you must take a truck up the winding road to the top mountain.. Then you walk the last distance yourself. If you are not able or don't want to walk there are palaquins borne by 4 men to carry you up in style. And since many stay overnight at the top, there are porters to carry your luggage. In a way the people watching is more interesting than the rock itself.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entrance arch. Monks, porters and the general public. Its about 6.30 am</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hustle and bustle. Note the porters baskets carrying bedding down for those who slept overnight at the top</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warmly dressed pilgrims heading home and a monk collecting alms</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-52001475150062982462015-02-17T01:53:00.001-08:002015-02-17T01:53:11.906-08:00Our placeWe live in a 1+ bedroom apartment, one floor above the street. We're right in the middle of Hleden Market which is so busy from 6 am till 9.30 pm that taxis don't go there. These are just a few photos from inside our place. There is no lobby. A locked grill at street level leads to a dark cement stairway. After one flight we unlock a door on to our balcony and from there another lock into our living room. We have AC in the living room and bedroom and a huge tub of water in a sort of utility room for when the power fails and the pump can't be turned on. And grocery shopping is at the foot of the stairs!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our living room with our gang. The kitchen is behind.. the bedroom is to the right. We don't own the stuff on the shelves!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little nuns come singing every morning asking people for food or donations. There are many bunches of them</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen. Two burner hotplate and toaster. And the sink is the onlt basin we have. But it works! And you can see more green torn up net way up to the left of the sink</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-16474646390756711902015-02-17T00:56:00.002-08:002015-02-17T00:56:28.145-08:00The Caves in Shan StateNear Inle but instead of going to Inle from the Heho Airport, you go into the Shan Hills. Here there are caves and over the years people have brought 3000 Buddhas here in memory of parents, children or to give thanks for important events. Nearby we watched as paper was made from the bark of mulberry trees, the same ones that silkworms eat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note all the covered stairways up to the caves. And the elevator to the right!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walls of Buddhas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A family picture with the giant spider outside the caves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy with the giant soider</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pounding the mulberry bark for paper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washing</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-1811397575727389422015-02-16T02:22:00.004-08:002015-02-16T02:22:45.613-08:00More Inle LakeSo here I will do some more of the Inle Lake photos<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fibre is cleverly pulled from the stems of the pink lotus flower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And then when the fibre is spun it can be woven into this very expensive cloth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gardens and sheds for growing tomatoes, squash etc</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a long day</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">they loved having their photos taken!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An archeaological site of stupas from the 18th and 19th centuries. A monastery was nearby. Taken mainly for the satellite dish and the monk hanging out his laundry!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MoeMoe our guide for the day told us that the Boda tree leaf was used as a model for the stupas and pagodas. The bottom part formed the base and the top was separated to become the hti or umbrella. MoeMoe is from the Inthar tribe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long necked Padaung women. I remember a National Geographic article about them when I was 10 or 11.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The houses on stilts of the Inthar tribe. They still have electricity!</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-7947188146093408672015-02-09T02:04:00.001-08:002015-02-09T02:04:31.511-08:00The best sign!!This is the best sign in Yangon. You see them in a number of public places. this one is in The People's Park<br />
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-52065519984875245262015-02-09T01:58:00.000-08:002015-02-09T01:58:11.903-08:00Around my officeI work at Myanmar Egress, a civil society organization formed in 2007 to teach social science subjects which were not being taught in schools or universities. They have been teaching courses to develop human capital in the country and give people the skills to push for a better Myanmar. The focus is mainly on youth but some courses have been given to business people, media to help with better reporting from conflict zones, politicians.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 23rd batch of Egress grads. Many have now started their own NGOs Moe the director is in pink in the front</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One place to have lunch is at a little restaurant over the back fence. they pass the food through or over and the tables stay on Egress side. Saves a big walk around</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Egress consists of three long parralel buildings like this</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the day of the christmas party everyone prepared a huge meal. We are doing fruit. Everyone is in uniform</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend Phyo who answers all my questions </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cuso wanted a photo of us at work so we came and joined the English Dept just outside my area. Staff wear uniforms; for management its optional tho they often do wear them</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-77154107206668785102015-02-08T22:36:00.001-08:002015-02-08T22:36:56.995-08:00Taungoo, Kayin State and the Youth Peace ForumTwo of us from Myanmar Egress joined the group of facilitators on a trip trip to the Youth Peace Forum in Taungoo. Youth from the area and a few who are older learned about democracy and gained electoral knowledge. They were an enthusiastic group listening to political science lectures and doing exercises to consolidate them. <br />
On our trip back to Yangon we started by going into the Kayin (Karin) Hills and climbed up a mountain to a Christian prayer site and then detoured to stop at a famous stream where everyone waded and splashed fully clothed. Few on the trip had ever visited these places as they were mostly from Yangon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The youth panel. The guy in the middle spent 10 years in prison as a student activist. Now he's out and studying geology</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Government report card on the accountability pillar of democracy. Two groups disscussed the pillars and evaluated the government</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our group in the Kayin (Karin) Hills</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "older" panel. The President of my organization is on the left. The director of Andy's organization is on the right. The head of MPC, the Myanmar Peace Centre has the mike and the Union Minister is in the centre. I forget who the other is.. Maybe a political science prof. It was an open mike session.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me with Nancy, my 93 year old Kayin friend who asked us to have lunch with her, privately</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just up the lane from the last photo, my friend Nancy seeing us off from her house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you were born on a Friday like me you pour 21 cups of wather on Buddhas shoulder here behind the bell and then ring the bell to send your good deeds upwards.</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-84581173177250583022015-01-21T21:23:00.000-08:002015-01-21T21:23:41.011-08:00Village near BaganWe visited a village near Bagan, perhaps one that was relocated from amongst the temples to make way for tourist traffic. It was set up as a model village and we were encouraged to take pictures of people doing normal village things like weaving sorting peanuts, looking after children, collecting water from the well.<br />
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Below lacquerware workshop in Bagan. It takes at least 8 years to produce a piece. Both men and women are involved in production tho this area is all men. Pliable bowls are made with horsehair as well as bamboo as the base. Amazing ancient art!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People leaving money for the nats<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">. The nats are Hindu gods replaced when Buddhism became dominant centuries ago but still revered</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A case full of nats and one outside with money </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Bagan view from high up a pagoda. See all the pagodas in the background and the goods for sale in the foreground</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy in a teashop for lunch. Note the typical dispenser of toilet paper which serves as napkins. Also note the blue string to the right. A lighter is tied to its end for use by smokers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puppet theatre of traditional legends are common in Bagan and Mandalay. Here are waiting puppets!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Youth play the traditional ball game, a bit like hacky sack. See the ball to the lower left of the window of the pagoda</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We climbed up to watch the sunset but there were so many people we came down early!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View as the sun went down</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again a view at sunset.. almost!</td></tr>
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.Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-18001386857019308942015-01-09T02:15:00.000-08:002015-01-09T02:15:13.308-08:00Around MandalayMandalay is in the heart of the old Myanmar kingdom. The glass palace of the last king of Burrma has been rebuilt in part in the heart of Mandalay. One monastry shows a bit what the palace must have been like. A supersticious king moved it outside the palace walls and thus it was not bombed during the Second World War. Across the river is Sagaing a hill covered with pagodas and many monastries and with gorgeous views of the Ayeyarwady river. Downstream a little bit is Ava, an ancient capital for most of the 14th to 19th centuries. The city is a precious stone and handcraft centre today and has a climate cooler than Yangon's.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young monks lining up for their last meal of the day served at their monastry at 11am. Note the shoes on the doorstep</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-53804567848085143622015-01-06T01:47:00.000-08:002015-01-06T01:47:20.914-08:00A few more photos of the Ayeyarwady<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-32965613390626513742015-01-06T01:26:00.000-08:002015-01-06T01:29:40.916-08:00The Ayeyarwady (or Irrawaddy) RiverWe took a short boat trip upriver from Mandalay and then took a ferry from Mandalay to Bagan. In the end we knew one thing for sure. The Ayeyarwady is a very busy river. Local people, tourists and all manner of commercial goods were moving up and down. Its a wide lazy shallow river with shifting sandbars but the traffic and the fishermen are busy non stop.<br />
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The Botataung Pagoda is near the ferry docks on the Yangon river in southeastern Yangon. It was bombed in 1943 and rebuilt as a hollow structure that you can walk inside. We spent some time here and then took a ship to watch the Yangon sunset. However it was cloudy and the sunset was not spectacular. But it was a pleasant evening, nice to be away from the hustle of the city. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the pagoda<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Nun praying inside pagoda<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Buddhas hair relic enshrined in pagoda<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-4266331818164339732014-12-15T00:09:00.000-08:002014-12-15T00:09:04.940-08:00Twantay Pottery<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A practised team 42 years in the making!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kiln..imagine the fire hazard!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young women apply redder wash to dry pots while taxi driver watches</td></tr>
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We visited the pottery making in Twantay across the river, southwest of Yangon. The pottery has been made here like this for over a thousand years. In the grass walled "factory" worked a potter and his wife who turned the wheel by hand as well as young women, likely daughters who applied a red clay wash to the dried pots. They ran the kiln every 10 days with a full load of new pots. The pots are used by nurseries to plant shrubs and flowers and are often seen around Yangon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">final crimping to the planter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potter explains how rings are used between pots in the kiln</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pits of wet clay mixture sit over night. Potting wheel at back right</td></tr>
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<br />Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-37944718273018411192014-12-03T01:57:00.003-08:002014-12-03T01:57:59.718-08:00Our first apartmentOur first apartment where Cuso staff still live was in a townhouse on a side street off a busy business street called Insein St. Quite appropriately named as the traffic is always "insane". It was new and everything worked. The landlords were a couple of returned Myanmar Americans who had fixed it up for themselves and then found that a house came with his job. One of the Cuso staff lives in the apartment across the street and in the picture of that building you may be able to see strings going from balconies to ground level. These are doorbells rigged up somehow as there are none in the "lobby". Actually there is no lobby. They are also the newspaper etc delivery system as there are no elevators and it would be a long walk down and back up just for a newspaper or such. The item just gets tied on and is pulled up. Efficient.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The building across the street.. look for the strings!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen, one of two!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the inside just heading out to work</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy in front of our first place</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-2554445993884639692014-11-27T02:03:00.000-08:002014-11-27T02:03:27.235-08:00Dhamma Seminars Part 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its filling up!</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-3292748760683482382014-11-26T20:16:00.002-08:002014-11-26T20:16:46.457-08:00Dhamma Seminars, Part 1<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All set!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from our balcony</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baking soda to keep down odours</td></tr>
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Our street has been very exciting this week! On Saturday/Sunday the street was hosed down, dusted with baking soda and the market stalls were pulled back and covered. Each evening for a week we have carpets laid down and a procession of monks walk up the carpet through the seated public. Then from a red and gold stage at the front different monks each night deliver a 2 hour lecture on various aspects of Buddhism and how to live your life with inner peace. All is in Burmese so I have to go on what I've been told. At various intervals there are chants and at the end of the evening, about 9.30, the religious group leaves, the mats are rolled up, the toadstool lights are taken away and all is ready for the busy market the next day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The python and his money!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shwemahdaw Pagoda</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahazeti Pagoda<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">In the victory ground at Mahzeti Pagoda</td></tr>
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I couldn't upload any more on the last post so I started again to continue the Bago photos1Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-32992440958949538982014-11-17T01:15:00.001-08:002014-11-17T01:15:48.350-08:00A Trip to Bago<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shwethalyaung reclining Buddha teachings on side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shwethalyaung reclining Buddha .. Andy and a monk who wanted his photo taken with him. He had quite a following!<br />
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Once the capital of the Mon kings, Bago is about an hour and a half driving time NE of Yangon. We were lucky that there were no traffic jams en route to slow us down. We visited an<br />
allied Second World War cemetery just beside the highway and then arrived in Bago. We saw Kyaikpun pagoda, built in the 15th century. This is 4 seated Buddhas around the base of a large pillar. Then we saw the Mya Tha Lyaung reclining Buddha. The soles of the feet are incredibly painted as are the fingernails! The Shwethalyaung reclining Buddha is the second largest in the world measuring 55 metres long and built in 994AD. It was lost after a battle in 1757 but rediscovered during British rule in 1880. It had been completely overgrown with jungle. The mosaic pillows were added in 1930. We saw the Shwemawdaw Pagoda built by 2 merchants 1000 years ago. It is the tallest in Mysanmar and parts were destroyed by a 1917 earthquake but have been restored. The Mahazeti Pagoda was built in 1560 to enshrine a tooth of Buddha but it was later proved to be a fake and was removed. It has been destroyed and rebuilt after wars and earthquakes. this one is climbable almost to the top but in the heat we didn't do that, spending more time in a small victory ground pagoda nearby. We visited the snake pagoda, supposedly the reincarnation of a famous monk. The 6 metre long Burmese python was just lying under a long table and people put money on it for good luck. The Kanbawzathadi palace where some Mon kings lived and were crowned was reconstructed in 1990 - 1992 having burnt down in 1599. It was only built in 1556 but certainly showed the opulence of the mon dynasty. On the way back to Yangon we stopped briefly at a Chinese pagodaquite different from the Mon ones we had been seeing,<br />
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-41728330377550192212014-11-10T00:06:00.002-08:002014-11-10T00:06:41.268-08:00Kathein<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Kathein is a Buddhist holiday at the end of the rainy season. Communities and groups donate money and essential items to a chosen monastery. No monastery can have more than one supporting group. The monks receive new robes, slippers, soap, towels, begging bowls and money to look after them while they remain in the monastery for 3 months of meditation. the day to deliver the gifts is the day before the full moon in November<br />
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-56139038284639791792014-11-03T23:31:00.002-08:002014-11-03T23:31:39.831-08:00Shopping and cookingWe spent a Saturday a week or so ago touring a local market and then going to a <br />
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local NGO called Graceworks to learn to learn how to cook in the Myanmar way. Graceworks is a social enterprise teaching cooking, English and computer skills to needy children who will be able to tour visitors around markets and teach them Myanmar cooking.. a bit like the Thai model I guess. some also get jobs in restaurants. This is the month when Bhuddists fundraise for the monastries so the markets were buzzing with vendors shoppers and fundraisers.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fundraising: note the money pinned to the people</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pigs snout and ear!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three of us in cooking classmaking a curry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our group of five and the trainee instructors</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-89065981053405753502014-11-03T20:39:00.000-08:002014-11-03T20:39:02.456-08:00Train ride around Yangon<div class="MsoNormal">
We took the old narrow gauge railway all
around Yangon getting on about a half hour walk from our temporary house and
going first towards the north, then across the top and then down the eastern
border of Yangon. We got off the train
at the grand central station in the south and after exploring some of downtown,
took a taxi back to our place. The seats were hard wooden benches a bit like old school desks and by the time we had jogged and rocked for 3 hours I was glad to stand up! But the slice of life we saw was remarkable! All this
cost us 20 cents Canadian; I think it was a reduced fare because it was
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brooms for sale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drying clothes between the rails </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Station market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bustle by the tracks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch on the go</td></tr>
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Anne and Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06586011011811058542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130860160951276637.post-76111436919328879182014-10-30T03:25:00.000-07:002014-10-30T03:25:17.786-07:00The Shwedagon<div class="MsoNormal">
One of Bhuddisms most famous sites, the Shwedagon dominates
the heart of Yangon. Its many stupas are
coated with 27 tons of gold leaf and its spires are inset with rubies, diamonds
and many other gems. We visited at
sunset when the gold glowed almost bronze in the diminishing light. It was here that Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to
massive crowds in 1988 and this was the centre of the monks protests in 2007</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pigeons at the entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteer sweepers at sundown</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very large figures in a tableau</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous </td></tr>
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