Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Where I went - jade market, a few temples, the along the Ayarwaddy River, more temples, then by boat to Inwa and more temples

A wooden temple

Inside the temple

Ornate carvings

Then along the road - a taxi stand and petrol - not served in Jack Daniel's as in Indonesia and Cambodia - but in water bottles

Breakfast bowl for collecting rice. Apparently monks are not allowed to cook so each morning the take their bowls and collect food for the day. Some they eat - and other they save for a later meal.

Waiting smile

Then to the jade market. An interesting and busy place with buyers, sellers and cutters, streetfood and more. Here are some cut stones

A bit of marketing

Bracelets

Inspecting

Cutting

Cut pieces

Some off-street street food

Rough pieces

Jade ladies

A serious monk

Stone carvers

Big temple

Temple shops

Temple reflections

Temple museum

Mom's smile

Map of SE Asia

Golden temple

Junior monks

Ringing the bell

Wedding party

Another craft factory - wood carving

Sewing

Puppet

Painting Buddha

Monk breakfast

Breakfast line

Rice line

Rice line

Eating

Breakfast

Weaving

Colorful cotton weaving

Products - I bought a shirt

Bridge to Inwa

Temples

Below the bridge was an assembly line - loading a barge with gravel

Loaders

Dumping gravel (puff of dust)

Loading gravel a balancing act walking the plank

Watchful temple

Sign

Temple wall

Many Buddhas

Temple front

Many Buddhas

Wooden temple

Old temples

Stupas

Old temple

Thanaka leaf smile

Thanaka smile

Teak bridge before sunset - lost of people

Teak bridge - apparently the longest in the world

Sunset hut

Bridge girl

Colorful boat

Sunset bridge

Interesting leafless tree

Sunset bridge

Sunset bridge

Sunset bridge - Bye Bye Sun

C. Frank Starmer

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