Trip reports - Bagan, Mt. Popa, Inle lake, Kalaw, Train, Pakokku, Mindat trip

Bagan, Nyaung Oo, Mt. Popa, Inle lake, Kalaw, Train, Pakokku, Mindat (21 Jan - 07 Feb 2011)

Bagan & Mt. Popa | Shan state | Ayeyarwaddy to Chin hills | Mindat & Mt. Victoria | Pakokku, Phakhan Gyi & Bagan


Back in Mindat town at night after visiting the hydro power plant at Che creek


Home stay accommodation house at night in Mindat


The road on southern Chin mountains down to Ayeyarwaddy river in central plain


A bullock cart in a village - on the way from Mindat to Pakokku


Sunset view view through the dust in Pakokku


Typical morning scene in Pakokku


An ancient temple in Pakhan Gyi old town, 18miles north of Pakokku


Old wooden monastery in Pakhan Gyi


The large teakwood platform of the monastery in need of repair - Pakhan Gyi


The Buddha image room in the monastery


Few of many teakwood pillers or posts in the monastery


This monastery is said to be the largest wooden monasery in Myanmar/Burma


The ceiling design and construction in the Pakhan Gyi wooden monastery - Kyaung Taw Gyi


A simple door, similar to the doors of Wats, Temples, Pagodas or Monasteries in Thailand and Laos


A curved wooden door


A pottery boat on the Ayeyarwaddy river, Pakokku


Fishermen huts on the sand banks on the Ayeyarwaddy river


Another sunset view from a Bagan temple



Bagan & Mt. Popa | Shan state | Ayeyarwaddy to Chin hills | Mindat & Mt. Victoria | Pakokku, Phakhan Gyi & Bagan