A early alarm to catch a morning bus to Kalaw, leaving behind the 44 degrees celsius of yesterday and enjoying pleasant milder temperatures of the 1300 metres high village in the Shan state...moving from the palm to the pine trees, and left behind a, if not the, touristic area for a more relaxed and friendly spot, still on the western's list..
The smile of the people covers up any difficult or just embarassing situation, it's amazing and I continue to realise that so much we should learn from Asia, yet I know that there is something deeper that the language barrier is not allowing me/us to understand!
Sometimes is a disgrace to notice the amount of garbage piled just anywhere from the back door of a restaurant to the side of a bridge, or even floating in ponds just below people's home!
The road conditions make any journey little too long or more tiring than it should be..
The country hardly reaches the 1000 US$ of GDP per capita (and for women sadly and kinda obviously, as it happens in our so called "developed" countries too, is 700 US$!), but it is in the middle of catching the big capitalism wave and foreign investments are booming, putting Yangon and all Myanmar in a strategic position up in the list for a big economical growth..
"The era of capitalism is here to stay" a local magazine shouted today! Shouts, of protesting students instead, are shut by the government most of the time in violent way!
In any case Myanmar is slowly placing herself on the world map, and not only touristically...
ice cream shop in Yangon
a lucky and carefree kid..
less lucky and more needy (also to pee!!) kids just 100 metres from the lucky one above!..
the view, for few hours, from the train to Bagan..
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