A small village of 300 houses is living of getting and drying fish during the summer in sunlight. Everything is used for selling, personal consumption and animal food. At 06:00 AM the40 boats are coming back from a whole night at sea. The men bring the fish ashore and the women start preparing. During the…

Where ever in the world you are the children keep on playing. In the faraway places in the mountains where people still live in wooden or bamboo houses the only toys are the things they invent themselves.

The older ladies of the Chin tribe are famous for their tattooed faces. The younger ones do not extend this habit because it is rather painful. Moreover the thanakha they put on their faces is for them much better and even nicer. So in the end these spectacular faces will disappear.

This time of the year the fisher men bring home mostly very young shrimps which are used for shrimps paste. The use of this paste is well known in Southern Eastern Asia. The way they sale their products is like an exchange by shouting.

On our way to the villages in the mountains we passed by a monastery with about only 20 novices. They were shy but soon became quite open and happy and kept on playing and laughing all the time.

The people of the Ann Hill Tribe are well known for their black teeth because of chewing specific leaves and some kind of tobacco. This group lives in a small village consisting of no more then 20 wooden houses. They are warm and friendly and invited us for lunch.

Have been for almost a day in this village of 20 houses. A larger part of the day it was raining but it was a joyful day for the children especially because of the visitors. The women are known for their pipe-smoking habit.

Mingun has 3 important monuments. The largest working bell in the world which weighs 87 tons. The Mantara Gyi Pagoda sometimes described as the largest pile of bricks in the world. And finally the unusual white Hsinbyume Pagoda which architecture is founded in the Buddhist cosmology. Both pagodas were severly damaged by earthquakes in the…

At the end of the morning we arrived in the Zayta Wun nunnery in the Nyaung Oo village. They were celebrating the end of the 5 days Chanting festival. During these days you hear the sayings of Buddha 24 hours per day over the speaker system. Every nun is reciting by return for one hour….

The day before I arrived in Bagan there was a severe rainstorm. The soil could not absorb the water and it was flooding over the streets and around the lower pagoda’s. On the way to the hotel I passed by a collapsed 700 old years pagoda. The people of almost a whole village were helping…