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Chuck and Jeffry (my uncle's driver) looking at an one of the hundreds of old colonial buildings all over Yangon71 views
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you have to walk in a clockwise direction around the Shwe Dagon. there are areas for each day of the week - you light candles and give offerings for the day of the week you were born.71 views
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these guys were really nice & rescued us after our accident. crappy chinese motorbike's chain came off while we were going down Mandalay Hill after sunset, my foot & tailbone were injured. i got x-rayed at a clinic after this71 views
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me dad71 views
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the trees and the jungle have taken over the Ta Prohm temples70 views
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monks at Angkor Wat70 views
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a floating village on the lake - more than 1 million people live on or around the Tonle Sap70 views
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water lily in the pond by Angkor Wat70 views
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the steps were so narrow and so steep it was like climbing a vertical stone wall, with no railing to hold on to & the steps falling apart in places. once you started climbing, changing your mind was out of the question, & the only way to go was up70 viewsi could only imagine falling and cracking my skull on the stone courtyard below. my fingers were all slippery with sweat in fear, which made it even harder to grasp the crevices in the narrow smooth stone steps. apparently, they designed the towers with such steep & narrow steps like this to create an impression of reaching to the heavens, and also to make it difficult for mere mortals to reach the gods (gods are not supposed to be easily accessible).
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Apsaras70 views
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the center portion of this building is in the form of serpent heads (nagas)70 views
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our guide. after hanging out with him a couple of days, i asked him about the Khmer Rouge & found out his entire family had been killed by the KR. he entered a monastery after KR's end since that was the way he could be fed & educated70 views
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the women's temple. there was a women's temple and a men's temple side by side. apparently women went here to pray for female related issues, like pregnancy, childbirth...70 views
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kids playing in the water in the bottom left corner, between the coconut and banana and the mangrove trees. that's the Naaf River and Burma/Myanmar on the other side70 views
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