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| Yangon Market |
"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." - MArk Twain: The Sawyer Abroad
And it's true. I have known Amabel years back in Thailand. A spirited and a witty, funny woman. I liked her then. But being with her in Myanmar is totally liking her to the highest level. And because of our travels together that I am certain that our friendship extends the boundaries of Burma. it is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies of du voyage. Perhaps they are one of the most rewarding about travelling. And the things I saw in Myanmar, I have seen with the traveller's eyes. And the people I have known, I have come to love. But Myanmar is never an interesting place for me without Amabel and the 2 more gals: Espie and Cheryl. I want to share our travel pictures exclusive of just Amabel and I. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"...
One weekend in AMARAPURA: City of the Immortals.
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| U Pain Bridge: The oldest bridge in Myanmar |
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| Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner :) |
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| Falling in love is easy.
But staying in love is very special. And this couple found a very special love. |
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| A little imagination goes a long way in Myanmar |
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| RAIN is coming on our way! |
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| It dawned on me, that it is romantic to just sit on the bridge and just talk about nonsense with the love of your life, while waiting for the sunset. |
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They are Peter, James and John, their English names.
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These pictures were taken at Mem-Yo. It is just about 2 and a half hours drive from Mandalay City. They say it is cold all year round. So we brought our magic 'pashmina' this time just in case we shiver. :)
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| The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! |
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| I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion. |
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| Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― Mark Twain
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| The trees grow silently. |
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| black and white |
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| A wise man travels to discover himself. |
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I travel not to go anywhere,
but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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I didn't know that the world
could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.
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| In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. |
