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| canal in front of our Bangkok hotel |
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| festival day at a nearby temple |
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| this looks familiar - look again! |
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| temple at our corner |
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| view of the bay from our hotel in Prachuap Khiri Khan |
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| the next bay from Prachuap Khiri Khan |
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| main street Bangkok on Water Festival Day to celebrate the Thai New Year |
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| staff at last Bangkok hotel celebrating Thai New Year with water pistols! |
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| downtown Yangon |
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| Sule Paya, a 2000-year-old golden temple in central traffic circle of Yangon |
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| Shwedagon Paya, the most sacred of all Buddhist sites in Myanmar |
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| the east entrance to Shwedagon |
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| the magic of Shwedagon under a full moon |
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| view of the canal linking Nyaungshwe town to Inle Lake |
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| woman on shore collects taxi fare from passengers returning to their village on the lake |
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| a fisherman at the entrance to the lake |
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| parking area at a local market on Inle Lake |
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| tribal people at the lakeside market |
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| we visit the floating gardens in the lake |
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| local family's mode of travel |
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| laundry time in a stilt house |
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| leg rowing! |
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| rice planting near the town of Nyaungshwe |
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| we taxi our bicycles across Inle Lake |
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| a typical Myanmar dinner |
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| our favourite time of the day - drinks delivered poolside! |
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| a young monk watches us |
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| at a local temple people wait to offer monks gifts of rice, etc. |
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| our favourite coffee shop in the centre of Nyaungshwe |
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| sights along the Ayeyarwady River as we boated to Bagan from Mandalay |
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| We stop to let off a passenger. |
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| the largest of the 4000+ Bagan Temples |
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| temples commissioned by Bagan's kings between the 11th and 12th centuries |
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| goats and their herders roam the area |
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| an enterprising young vendor greets us with his postcards |
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| cattle herders shelter from the sun |
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| temple detail |
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| pilgrims to the temples pass us on our bicycles |
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| a local woman offers us a cheroot |
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| village women carry water for great distances across these hot plains |
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| a bicycle shop in Hsipaw |
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| young nuns at a nunnery in the countryside outside of Hsipaw |
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| we stop at a local restaurant on a hike with a guide outside of Hsipaw |
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| food vendor on the train across the Gokteik Viaduct, built in 1901 |
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| train aisle is definitely not for walking! |
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| taxi in Pyin Oo Lwin |
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| Botanical Gardens in Pyin Oo Lwin |
