Pictures of of Manadaly and the surrounding area in Myanmar

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Full Moon Party with friends in Manadalay

Allan and Margaret on Mandalay Hill. Chatting to a young monk surveying Mandalay spread out below the hill.

Group of monks visiting the pagoda and shrines at the top of Mandalay Hill. Massive Guardian Lions protecting the entrance to the hill. From here it is a one hour barefoot walk to the summit and magnificent views over the city.

Kuthodaw Pagoda where 729 huge marble slabs have been inscribed by the entire Buddhist liturgy. Each slab is housed in its own stupa. We used bicycle rickshaws to get around the lovely gleaming white pagodas in this part of Mandalay.

Bustling Mandalay Market thronging with busy but very friendly people

Young novice nuns begging for alms at the entrance to a Mandalay convent. Nuns resting in the cool and shade of a stairway in their convent.

Monks strolling across the 200 year old U Bein’s 1.3 km long teak wood bridge at Amarapura.

Large flock of ducks being herded by a boatman at U Bein’s teak bridge at Amarapura

Cheerful girls polishing marble Buddha statues.

Mountain train from Mandalay to Lashio stopped at Pyin U Lwin. Picture of us taken by another passenger.

Friendly train passengers in first class compartment. Nice boy smiles to say hello

Selling snacks, food and drink to train passengers in two trains.

Carriage passing Purcel Clock Tower in Pyin U Win. We used these stagecoach type throw backs to colonial British days to get about the hill top town of Pyin U Win. The town was once a British Hill Station.

Scenes of rural live around Hsipaw. Shy water buffalo casts a suspicious eye over Allan. Ox cart trudging along a country path.

Margaret admires a fine water buffalo cart during a trek to a waterfall near Hsipaw

Pictures of Inle Lake in Myanmar

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Fisherman on Inle Lake using his leg to row the boat. This keeps his hands free to pay out his net.

Water weed is collected from the bed of this shallow lake using long poles. The weed is then composted and used on the floating farms in the centre of the lake.

Chatting to a friendly camily at the special five day Full Moon Festival market at Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda at the southern end of Inle Lake Myanmar

Small boy fascinated by the camera as Margaret buys a sarrong from his mother. Woman buying flowers as a pagoda offering from a flower stall during the Full Moon festival.

Vegetable stalls at the special five day Full Moon Festival market at Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda at the southern end of Inle Lake.

Pictures of Yangon in Myanmar

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Magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda at Dusk

Dan light filters into the pecincts of Shwedagon Pagoda

Monks at the Shwedagon Pagoda