Around Mandalay 1995

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Sagaing Hill. It was 42 degrees C that day.

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Preparing palm beer. Palm leaves are cut high in the tree, cups catch the juice that seeps out, and that ferments in the sun, before being carried down to drink...
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Making Burmese style coffee, sweet, milky, and made with instant coffee.
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U Bien Bridge in Amarapura during the dry season.
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A section of the worlds biggest book at Kuthodaw Paya.

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Parapsychologist - Special Treatment of Magic
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Mandalay colleagues, one holding a cup of beer, the other helping keep the flies away.

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Entrance to the town Pyin Oo Lwin (Maymyo).

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Peik Chin Myaung (Maha Nandamu Cave)
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Peik Chin Myaung (Maha Nandamu Cave)

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Peik Chin Myaung (Maha Nandamu Cave)
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Near Peik Chin Myaung (Maha Nandamu Cave)

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At the pagoda on Mandalay Hill.

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The path to the Mandalay Hill Pagoda had some very interesting shrines.
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Entrance to the Bagaya monastery, containing 267 teak pillars.
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Sweet and sticky cakes.
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On a trip outside of Mandalay we travelled in style, or at least a style appropriate for the surroundings.
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U Bien's Bridge during the wet season.

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Maha Aungmye Bonzan Monastery, Inwa
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