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Most viewed - 2006: Myanmar |
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loading cabbage58 views
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protecting myself from the rain with my parasol58 views
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view from top of Mandalay Hill. at sunset thousands of dragonflies were dancing around the hill in giant clouds58 views
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countryside at dusk along the way - we hired a car & driver, & drove 3 hours to Pindaya. these photos don't really do justice to the area, it was really beautiful there57 views
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going back home after market day. Shan State is home to many different tribes & ethnic groups with their own cultures and languages57 views
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riding a bullock - standing up!57 views
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how many people can you fit on a truck?57 views
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walking through the town of Nyaung Shwe at dawn. already lost of people around, everyone is going to Inle Lake for the festival57 views
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Inle Lake filling up with boatloads of people. thousands of people & the many tribes of Shan State come for pilgrimage at this time (the town of Nyaung Shwe was packed for the festival with fairs, food stalls - excitement was in the air everywhere)57 views
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doing laundry. there are many of these villages on the lake. since the lake isn't deep (although it's big), houses are built on stilts and people have floating vegetable plots and gardens57 views
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dimensions of the reclining Buddha, supposedly the biggest in the world (longer than the one in Bangkok). this temple is about an hour's drive from Yangon56 views
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young novice monks56 views
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the town of Kalaw. it's an old colonial British hillstation, about 4500 ft above sea-level. the temperature's nice and cool, and its a quiet and charming little place56 views
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we felt so lucky to be in Inle on this day. we hadn't planned our trip to Burma to coincide with this festival, but once there & we'd heard about it of course we had to experience it. what amazing timing56 views
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the leg-rowing boat competition has started. the Intha men (who live on Inle Lake) row standing up, with one leg. each of the procession boats has people playing music, drumming, singing while the rowers row away in unison with their legs56 views
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the Myanmar version of a rickshaw - the passegers sit in a sidecar, one facing forward, one back55 views
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hmm, which way is Bangladesh from here?55 views
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chuck sitting in the car we had rented while i'm taking photos55 views
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women lined up on the roadside to collect alms, just before entering Inle55 views
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here comes the barge that everyone's been waiting for. shaped like a mythical bird, it's carrying 4 buddha images from the 12th century (except over the years, devotees have been plastering them with gold leaf so they're shapeless lumps now)55 views
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birds all hanging out55 views
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Intha fisherman on Inle lake rowing standing up with one leg55 views
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weaving silk on Inle lake55 views
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