Worship in the East
Worship in the East. The profoundly Buddhist people of Myanmar has worshippers making a circumnavigation of the Golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Golden deities in a Chinese temple in Singapore. […]
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Thatbyinnyu Phaya in Bagan, Myanmar
Realizing that it would be impossible to see all two or three thousand of Bagan’s temples, we started skimming the cream of crop, heading for the temples that had been circled […]
Giant Buddhas in Manuha Temple in Bagan
Our next stop on our ebike tour of Bagan was circled on our map as a ‘do-not-miss’ sight. Built in 1059 by King Manuha, it contains three giant Buddhas, each one […]
Sein Nyet Pagoda in Bagan
First thing in the morning we grabbed our annotated map, picked up was our ebikes and we were off to explore the temples of Bagan, all 2000 plus of them! […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange Clothing
On Canada Day, when everyone else on was wearing red, Al was wearing orange. Al’s favorite colour is orange. Since he’s also six foot three it’s usually pretty hard to […]
Travel Theme: Laughing Monk
On the day we were at Angkor Wat we met this laughing man and asked why he was so happy. One of the monks who spoke some English told me […]
A Motorcycle Tour of (a Few) Monasteries and Pagodas of Mandalay
The sweltering heat of Mandalay and the kilometre of dusty road ahead of us put a damper on attempting to walk to the next attraction. Then Al suggested we catch a couple of […]
Little Monks Running Around in an Inle Lake Monastery in Myanmar
Myanmar has more child monks than I have ever seen, and many of them are not that good at sitting still and studying. Here they are running about the monastery […]
