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The Past Two Weeks in Photos

This monster post takes us through another two weeks in Burma, stopping along the way in the royal capital Mandalay, hill station retreat Kalaw and aquatic breadbasket Inle Lake. Watch this space for a flurry of pent-up posts coming later…
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Mandalay: a Night at the Market

Naked fluorescent tubes give the night market — a crossroads for illicit Western books, clothing and music — a carnivalesque air from afar… …and from above. A taxicab streaks past a sunglasses stand. A trishaw driver awaits customers at a…
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Sunset at the Nyaung U Jetty

Rickshaw drivers await fresh blood stepping off the just-arrived ferries. A covered carriage provides a convenient respite from the late-afternoon sun. Filling pails with river water… … … Small fry sunset on the Irrawaddy river. Large freighter sunset.
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This Week in Photos (3 of 3)

800-year old temples dot the landscape at Bagan, in the parched plains of central Burma. An intriguing hybrid of Hindu and Buddhist imagery, and the westernmost point of the massive Angkor kingdom that once swept across much of southeast Asia,…
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This Week in Photos (2 of 3)

This entry, the second of three in the series, dates from our overnight trip upcountry to Bagan last Monday, when sixteen hours in the bus became twenty-four after a road became a river and we found ourselves stranded in the heart of mosquito country……
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This Week in Photos (1 of 3)

I’ve taken so many photos since leaving Singapore on Saturday, and the internet here in Burma is so slow, that I’ve broken this week’s photo post into three sections. This entry takes us through Monday morning. Welcome to Rangoon/Yangon. I…
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