Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Day Seven – Part Two: Twixt Kalaw & Inle Lake – Countryside & Pindaya Caves, 9 November 1998

Bathers near Pindaya

Drove through beautiful countryside – more photos and pens and saw Pa’O people on the way. [Also a] Danu village –where they grow rice, etc.

…then Pindaya – photograph bathers in the lake [see headline picture] – Danu? people. Then then Pindaya caves to see 8000 images of Buddha – explore caves.

The singing nuns of Pindaya – on our way down Daisy made a small offering to these young nuns and they spontaneously (and unexpectedly) started singing to her

…then to umbrella factory –> Pindaya for lunch at Kyainlite Restaurant for steamed duck and wind chicken and ABC Stout at last!!!!

In those days, Daisy might look at a kitchen like this, yet still eat there

The ABC Stout saga had been run for much of our visit. I had read that this brew, which I had never tried before, had been a major thing in Burma before the Second World War and was still produced locally. I was keen to try it. Kyaw struggled to find it for us, until this place. In the end, I had to admit that it beat the stouts that I knew well – Guinness and Mackeson, only by dint of tasting more like rusty nails than its better-known counterparts. Kyaw looks a little disappointed in the above picture.

The photographs from this part of this day are pictures 01 to 26 in this Flickr album – click here or below:

01 We make loads of new friends on the road to Pindya BM_1998_J06 (11)

A placeholder piece which shows the full itinerary and has links to the albums of all our photographs for this trip can be found by clicking here or the link below:

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