Living TRAVEL - BURMA 1981

Mandalay - 690 kilometres due north of Rangoon
 


A little procession in the streets of Mandalay with music and dancing
 

Market - and below
 

 

Cigar smoking garlic seller
 

Around the outskirts of the town - and below
 

 

 

 

Housing by the Irrawaddy
 

Washing in the river
 

Tourists on a cruise of the Irrawaddy
 

Teak log production - and below
 

 

Old and new transport/workers
 

 

 

Palace with moat - and below
 

 

A teak monastery in the style of the monasteries lost from British bombing of the palace
- and below
 

 

Detail of the wood carving in the teak monastery
 

Chief monk's office
 

Buddhist monks

    
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