Thursday 15 March 2012

Lets just skip Singapore and just go to Myanmar

 Mom evidently missed our dog, and so picked up a rabbit as a surrogate for a few minutes
 At every temple, ladies would be selling little sparrows (perhaps the same ones that I saw in Malaysia and Sinapore) that they had caught, and (for good fortune or karma) you could set them free for a dollar or so!



 TEMPLE! The city of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) is centred around this giant gold temple, ie. its bang in the centre, and everything extends from it... pretty cool urban planning if you ask me..




If you notice on the women's cheeks they have what looks like badly smeared different color coverup!.. this is actually a natural wood based (i think) paste that they put on as a sunscreen as well as cooling agent for their faces called "tanaka"
Old man, he looks over 60 (probably younger) but still working, and manual labor at that!.. notice the lower body apparel.. called a longy, it is a male's version of a skirt, yet longer and all men where it... locals, unless they're dealing with international business will wear these longies. Mom bought me one, and I can see why they were them in such heat... it keeps everything quite cool! 

 At one of the bigger markets in Yangon, they had an area completely dedicated to almost 50-60 stalls in which girls like this stitched and made clothes!

Below is a man making billboard signs... BY HAND!.. an area of town had about 20 stores in which men would just be drawing and cutting out Burmese letters for signs that would eventually find themselves up on a billboard or storefront!

Not exactly sure what this guy was selling.. 
it almost seemed like he was a hoarder of random parts...


I decided to camp out at a certain spot on the sidewalk and take (what i thought was) discrete photos of locals walking down the street... by the amount of eye contact, i think they knew i was photoing them.. and not just flag or shop behind them...





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