Thailand & Burma Blog Nov 15th, 2016
November 16, 2016 at 9:57 PM
Tue Nov 15th, - Sunrise U-Bein Bridge, Sagaing Village, Mandalay Temples
We were up at and out by 4:45 am to catch the early morning light and sunrise at U-Bein bridge. U-Bein is Mandalay’s most famous landmark and claims fame to being the longest bridge in the world all made of teak. It was a great clear morning for pre sunrise light and then a spectacular sunrise to make for an amazing photo shoot. Later we took a walk along the bridge met some monks from a nearby monastery who happened to enjoy having their photo taken and taking photographs too. A great morning at U-Bein.
We then headed into the hills that surrounded Mandalay to explore and photograph some of the temples and visit a orphanage and monastery. In order to get higher up in the mountain region we had to leave our motor coach and board small transport to reach our destination. We also visited the small village of Sagaing where we had a chance to visit a family pottery business, very different from at home. Those who know Nancy McRae will know she really enjoyed this part.
Tomorrow we leave Mandalay and travel to Monica. Enjoy selection of photographs.
Pre sunrise at U-Bein Bridge.
Monks crossing early this morning.
Fisherman getting ready to check their nets.
An interesting building situated in the river just up from the bridge, interesting colours.
A B&W HDR of the setting moon.
Pat basking in the morning light.
More fisherman.
Just as the sun starts warming everything up, this is the full moon setting.
The water was so calm.
Sun up.
Pulling in the fishing nets.
Young monk enjoying the sunrise.
This was one of the vantage points we shot the sunrise from.
Monks crossing the bridge.
A little shy?
Not that shy when happy to pose for a group photo.
Or even a selfie with Jim ... Or is that called a Monkie!
The light was great and morning very clear.
Duck farmers.
Monks heading home.
Changing from our coach to a smaller transport up into the Mandalay mountains.
Plenty of room, Ann, Janice, Tammy, Nancy, Marian, Perry and John.
At a monastery in the hills, nuns studying.
Some very young monks.
Time to play.
Visiting a hill side temple.
More nuns at the temple.
Family pottery business.
Nancy checking out some of the tools.
Heading to market.
Yellow.
Village home, about 300 people live in this village.
Headed to market ...
Inside the temple of 43 buddhas, there are 43 as that is the amount of years buddha taught is faith.
Very large buddha within another mountain temple.
View from the hillside, these are all mountain temples.
That’s it for todays blog, more photos from Myanmar tomorrow. Good night.
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