Just photos - Myanmar

This is the local dish - mohinga - a breakfast fish soup. I know that sounds bad, but you will taste few things in life better than this.

It's a land of many Buddhas.

Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon (Rangoon)

More Shwedagon

Karen and durian. One of them stunk.

Downtown Yangon during the Chinese New Year festivities.

Yangon Airlines for our flight to Mandalay - wouldn't this make you feel safe? ;)

My college students being college students

Buddha Superstore...

View of Mandalay from the top of Sagaing Hill in Mandalay.

That's my Karen. On Sagaing Hill in Mandalay.

My turn to do the work. Local transportation in Mandalay. So much fun!

Selling thanaka in a local market. The bark is ground with water and Burmese women and some men put it on their cheeks as a makeup and sun block. You find it everywhere, and they will even put it on the Buddha statues as well. 

Standing on the longest teak bridge in the world - U bein bridge in Amarapura.

Near Mandalay. Pretty common site.Below is Karen eating avocado juice. Might not sound great, but it was. Avocado, sweetened milk, and fresh coconut. Yum. 

People here work hard, and it seemed to us as though the women did most of the tough manual labor. 

Coke with real sugar - love Myanmar!

A room made entirely of teak and gold, in one of the poorest towns I've ever been to.

I really wanted to ride a bike through the rice paddies. 

We had some extra soccer balls so we gave them to a local monastery. Nothing brings about a smile quicker than a soccer ball. 

Women working hard. Everywhere.

Making traditional cigarettes, but we saw almost no smoking in Myanmar. Love it.

One of the most common sites - kids checking us out on our bikes.

Karen making way for the locals.

More tough work. It hit 100 degrees when I took this photo.

Plowing the banana starts, and trying to keep the cows from eating them.

More local transportation.

Lots of smiles in this country.

More kids.

My favorite photo of the trip so far. Hey kids, there's an ELEPHANT behind you. Never mind...

Collecting sap for palm wine. It was tasty and strong.

Karen and a goat jam