Myanmar October 10, 2012

     Our beetle-nut chewing captain enjoyed testing me with Burmese questions:  “”Knee-kung lah?””(How are you?)  “Kan -day” (Fine)  And he’d flash a big smile.
     When we cruised through a 29 mile long defile (gorge) with dense vegetation covering the steep sides,  we still saw small river towns and stupas.  Some of our group disembarked to walk through Kyar Nat where men and women were bathing and doing their washing in the river.  Houses were on stilts here with long poles holding nets to catch birds, bats and crickets.  Originally I thought they were only used for fishing!
     Later  when we docked for overnight and were eating dinner on the open air upper deck, we noticed that 6 villagers were squatting on shore watching us.  Other people came in shifts to check us out – we were their live action TV.