Living TRAVEL - BURMA 1981

Around Pagan
 


Typical landscape around Pagan featuring the Irrawaddy River and flooded fields
 

Market - and below
 

 
 
Boys with rice paste make-up
 

Boy with sparrow killed with sling shot
 

Karen woman (our guide in Pagan)
 

Pagan Crafts
 


Display showing stages in the lengthy process of making lacquerware
 

Making lacquer ware boxes
 

Making lacquerware lids for boxes
 

Making lacquerware bowls - and below
 

 

The finished product, and below: what we bought
 

 

 

 


Winding warps of cotton for weaving
 

Weaving a strap for a cotton bag (see below!)
 

The finished product
 


Traditional Burmese Puppet Show - and below
 

  
more Pagan  |  Map of Burma
 

Living Travel Front Page
Africa  ||  Antarctica  ||  Arctic  ||  Asia  ||  Europe
Indian Ocean  ||  Middle East  ||  North America  ||  Pacific  ||  South America