Bagan Temple Tour from Mike Goldstein on Vimeo.
(Come to the page if you can’t see the video above).
Here’s Az inside one of the many temples – from January 2010 in Bagan, Myanmar. Below are a couple stills pulled from the video.
by Mike
At 4am we got off the bus in Yangon and found our way to a hotel, but of course nobody was there to let us in. So we sat on the street with a couple new friends and drank sweet chai tea until the sun rose. These two ladies started setting up their woks to deep fry some breakfast treats for the morning rush.
by Mike
Wandering around the dusty roads of Bagan, we took a turn toward the river and discovered a thriving little shoreline where women washed clothes, kids splashed and others bathed modestly. As we strolled past gardens that hugged the sandy bank, we met a little boat pulling to shore, letting passengers off. Three kids paddled people across the river to what must have been a small village on the other side (though, as you can see in some of the pictures, it doesn’t look like there’s anything there. I suspect the town was far back from the shore, out of the way of floodwater).
We waved the kids over and asked if they’d take us on a little tour down to the gold-covered pagoda that commands the river’s bend.
by Mike
Sometimes a city feels so different that you don’t even know what to take a picture of, so you snap shots of the biggest things around: buildings.
Many buildings in Yangon were decaying, rotting or defiantly holding their ground against the heat and humidity.
by Mike
Early morning in the back streets is quiet. It smelled like smoke and fried foods – for breakfast I had a little doughnut thing that was cooked by a lady on the street with a small crowd around her. It was greasy-good.
We love to travel and learn. We like eating and sleeping and going on the internet and we can do all of those things from anywhere in the world. We are originally from Seattle, but no longer stay for the winters. We must leave and see new places and great ways to live. We enjoy living well and seeing how others live well.
Winter of 2010-2011 we were in Europe for a little over a month, then Haiti, then Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. There was logic to it at the time, don't worry about trying to figure it out. We don't yet know where we're going for winter of '011. Maybe France? Maybe India?
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