BAGAN the 24th JAN 2015 Mont Popo

Today visit to Mt Popo, 60 km from Bagan

First stop at a peanut and sesame oil producer and a palm alcohol distillery. 

Distilling of palm alcool 

Palm sugar coconut sweats.

Ploughing methods here are very similar to those we saw in Peru, the difference being they don't use children to stand on the back of the plough but grown men. 



                        Big temple on the hill opposite Mt Popo

He looks like an Inka soldier

And as it is on the tourist route this is what you find ...

Paul negotiating 2 oranges for 200 kyats but to no avail. Even though earlier in the day one lady had already sold him 2 for 200 kyats. 

Up at the summit after 770 steps. 

 We returned to Bagan in the afternoon to visit some pagodas, the first one was called :Phy-tha-da 

Each temple has either it's own local painter or has someone selling their paintings. They make a very colourful show on the temple floors. 

Several of the temples have wall fresques and the local painters recopy them onto parchment using great detail and these are also for sale along with the 
colourful monk paintings. 




    A side view of Buddha

Su-la-manPahto

Dee Dee and Paul being taught to pray by some local children

We went to watch the sunset on the top of a hill as there were too many people at the temple. 
When we got there this is what we  saw: one can well imagine the same scene one hundred years before during the  English colonial years...