Ambassadeur Everlasting
Drieluik
This is my first try with a Triptych. Taungbi monastery near Bagan This young novice had eaten his midday meal and was getting ready to leave and adjusting his robe. He knew I was clicking away at him and really didnt mind. The Burmese people are predominantly devout Theravada Buddhists, although there is a small proportion of Christians, animists and Muslims in Myanmar. The people of Bagan inherit their way of life from ancestors who lived along the Ayerwaddy River long before the coming of foreigners like Marco Polo, who was the first westerner to document the archaeological splendor of Bagan.
Early Morning Light
As another day begins the (Chin) mother and her baby bathe in the early morning light.
The blue shawl
Having spent a wonderful day at Khumbalghar fort we were returning through the village to our hotel just as the buffaloes were also returning home for the day. The large but docile beasts were slowing making their way along the narrow paths when suddenly their nostrils captured a strange unfamiliar smell stopping them dead in their tracks and despite being prodded and pushed by their herders refused to budge. The problem - two foreigners. After a while and much laughter and dragging us both away downwind of the buffs they eventually reached their stalls. She was one of the herders.
Bedankt!!
Bij deze wil ik iedereen bedanken voor de heel leuke reacties die ik heb gekregen voor de rode sterren. Ik ben hier heel kort, maar vind het onzettend leuk en ik ben blij om een klein dorp zoals Mrauk U op de kaart te zetten. Voor de liefhebbers, nog een mooi (vind ik) foto van deze schitterend dorp!! Deze winter ga ik terug met alle fotos, dat zal leuk zijn.
The God of Small...Th
Second in the series. A young girl stands by the 17 meter high Jain monolith at the ancient site of Shravanbelgola.
At the feet of...Goma
Pilgrims at the feet of the 17 meter high Jain monolith at the ancient site of Shravanbelgola. The statue was errected between AD 980 and AD 983 you have to climb 700 hot granite steps to reach it, but well worth the climb the views are also breathtaking.
Morning Warmth
A female langur and her young enjoy the warmth of the early morning sun after a cold night in the temples of Khajuraho.
The Tailor's
Our hotel in Ranakpur was overbooked on our last evening and the manager asked if we would mind moving to Jojawar an hour or so away. Although we couldnt even find Jojawar on the map and knew nothing about the place we agreed. A small non-descript town boasting no real sights or palaces which Rajasthan is known for, but affording us a day of great photo shooting.
The boy in the orange
Taken in Dali, I remember it did not stop raining for 36 hours, everywhere was grey and wet, this little fella stood out like a bright sunbeam in his orange sweatshirt, atracting my attention immediately, and when he stood against the door post watching my every movement, I could not resist.
What's new in school?
Every morning, the students of this school start their day with a song. But it’s not the alphabet song or a nursery rhyme. It’s a catchy tune about scrubbing well with soap and water. As part of the Child-Friendly Schools project, UNICEF installed separate toilets for boys and girls and a clean water pump for washing on the school grounds. Now the students can put in practice what they have learned through singing. An estimated 26 percent of the rural population of Myanmar does not have access to modern drinking facilities and many schools have no water facilities whatsoever. The school walls have instructional posters that explain how to properly wash after using the latrine. Myanmar’s rural students can now study in cleaner and healthier schools, and perhaps influence the way their entire community thinks about hygiene.
Party Gril :)
Often English is text is spellt wrongly, I am sure her t-shirt should read "Party Girl" - maar ja :)
Hey foto allemaal !!
iedereen willen op de foto! Fijne en vrolijk weekend!
Morning Glory
The muted colours of a Mrauk U chilly morning, the novice walks briskly to morning prayers.
A face from the past
A short boat-trip from Mrauk U took us to outlying Chin villages. This lady invited us to her house where we shared a coconut and bananas and she told us (via an interpreter) how she was tatooed as a young woman. She may look serious or sad here, but in fact she was quite the reverse. Fortunately, the practice stopped some 40 years ago, so in each village that I visited there were only several elderly ladies with facial tatooes. The young women were tattoed to make them unattractive to prevent abduction by other tribes!
On the streets on...Y
Rangoon, or Burmese Yangon, is actually not a particularly old city, although an initial settlement in the same place dates back about 2,500 years. But, even though the town itself is not old, it creates, more than any other Southeast Asian capital that I know,an impression of a town from the past. The reason: within the past 30 years, little has changed. The city itself features few highrises and practically no traffic congestion. What moves in the streets, fringed by buildings in various states of dilapidation, are pedestrians and bicyclists.
Een geluks dragon voo
The wooden dragon guards the entrance of the temple in Chengdu. Beterschap Ryanne!
Tried and tested
Terwijl het maakelijk is om zelf hotels, vluchten enzovoorts te boeken in Myanmar. Ik heb twee lokale reisorganisaties gebruikt voor, vluchten, hotels, en Visa on arrival. alle beide zijn heel goede: Exotissimo Travel en EPG Travel, gevestigd in Yangon. Vooral de Visa on Arrival gaat heel soeple voor $25.
Achter het Taj Mahal
Achter het Taj Mahal heb je de rivier, bij zonsondergang heb je een heel mooi uitzicht van het Taj en het is lekker rustig. het is maakeijk daar de komen met een rickshaw. Het is wel de mooite waard om vroeg s'ochtends naar het Taj te komen en neem de ingang om de linkerhoek en niet de centraal ingang, dus vermijd je de postcard en souvenier verkopers.
Jojawarian vrouw
The wife of an earlier portrayed gentleman from Jojawar. A non-descript friendly (not often visited) Rajasthani town.
The dark side of the.
For 20 minutes in the evening the majestic Kumbalgarh fort glows gold against the dark sky. We sat on an opposite hillock in the cool breeze drinking in the sight. However, after 20 mins once the lights are turned off, and with the absence of the moon, we had to climb down the wall and walk the dark road back to the hotel.
The art of Rattan
Rattan grows in a long slender stem, The first step in the rattan product development process is harvesting. This is labor-intensive and is typically carried out by teams of villagers. Once the rattan has been harvested, it has to be prepared before it can be used in weaving. The first step is to wash the rattan to remove any stains and clean the product, stripping away the layer of silica that tends to coat the core rattan. The next step is to cure the rattan, turning its color from a pale green into the yellow that most people are familiar with by smoking it. The raw, washed rattan is loaded into what looks like a wood-framed tent that has its floor about a foot off the ground. Many “bushels” of raw rattan are piled on top of one another until the wooden frame is full. The frame is then covered with tarpaulin, which is secured to the ground using stone weights. The charcoal is ignited and placed under the tent, and the smoking process begins. After curing, the rattan has to be dried to remove excess moisture and make the product suitable for use. After drying, the rattan is ready for use,.weaving, or core products that are flexible and can be used used for binding to create the baskets, walls, fences, hats etc.
Just Thinking
In Mandu village. The script on the wall behind are politcal slogans and the symbol of the hand which represents the Congress Party and helps the illiterate when voting. Taken on International Women'd day and hoping that life in rural India for these two young girls and many others like them will be less hard when they reach womanhood.
Sing a Rainbow
In the 11th century the poet-prince Baz Bahadur smiten by the singing voice of a Hindu shepherdess Roopmati, built for her high on the crest of a hill so that she could still see her village as she sung a pavilion as a token of his love. A magnificent expression of Afgan architecture. Today Roopmati's pavilion is being restored. Despite the physically hard work she looked radiant in her colourful clothes and bangles. Red and yellow and blue and green, Purple and orange and pink, I can sing a rainbow, Sing a rainbow, Sing a rainbow too!
Piety
The Pa-Oo live primarily in the Taunggyi area of southwestern Shan State. They have learned to speak Shan, but have maintained their own distinct language and customs. Forced relocation programs carried out by the SPDC have been particularly sweeping in Mon, Karen and Shan States, the states where most of the Pa-O live. The Pa-Oo Nationalist Army signed a ceasefire with SLORC, but because the Pa-O live in many of the areas where other rebel groups are still active they have been swept up in the forced relocations and human rights abuses for which the ruling junta has become infamous. (Source: Pa-Oo Human Rights Watch) ISO 400 Handheld
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