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Pho Win Da Caves
Leaving the hotel at 4 pm it was a short few minutes to cross by open boat (no life jackets!) the Chindwin River.
Here we piled on board 2 more pick-ups for the 30 minute and 23 km / 14 miles ride to the Po Win Daung Caves (Mountain of Isolated Solitary Meditation).
Possibly the world’s tallest standing Buddha
... stalls selling little souvenirs and offerings along with the wood used to make thanakha.
First I climbed up inside the standing Buddha. Disappointingly there were barriers stopping you going past about half way up, but even from where you could get to there were amazing views out over the countryside. On the first floor there were reasonably attractive gold paintings ...
Thanboddhay Paya
... I didn’t pay to go into the main temple, but you could look through the gates on each of the four walls and easily get an idea of what the inside was all about – Buddhas!
Everywhere was very quiet so I was able to have a proper explore. I found a lady with a little boy and a puppy sitting next to a pond within a courtyard. There were large catfish and tortoise in the murky green water and the lady showed me how when she called ...
Not allowed to go on...
... you would have thought a bus driver should be able to realise they needed to do without being told. The conductors will also shout at any pedestrians who are in the way, even if really they are where the bus shouldn’t be driving anyway. The volume at which they are shouted at varies depending on how close they are to being hit.
In Monywa I wasn’t really sure what I had to do to get to where I wanted to head next. My plan was to ...
For Hylton Cooke, our Grandad
This is a top pick!
... today that they had to eat tin pineapple for months and with his dementia, we are hearing more and more about what happened during those year 1945 to 1948. Memories and experiences that he kept deep down for 70 years. Back home during that time, his mother sold his clothes and belongings not expecting him to come home and he frequently sent picture postcards of himself to his sweet heart (our ...
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