Friday, 3 July 2009

Myanmar in 10 pictures





Shwedagon Paya, Yangon. Pictures don't do this place justice. Contains more gold than the bank of England, is tipped with 5,448 diamonds and 2,317 rubies and the very top, like the icing on the cake, is a 76 carat (15g) diamond.





Street scene, Mandalay.





Human-powered pottery wheel, Sagaing.





Produce seller at the old market, Monywa.





Human-powered ferris wheel, Pakkoku.





Human-powered ferris wheel, Pakkoku.





Late-day soccer, Bagan.





Sunset over Bagan.





Sunrise over Bagan





Sule Paya, Yangon. A traffic circle pagoda.



1 comment:

yoni said...

Please stop travelling.