Myanmar Discovery October 2012

By the time we reached Katha – the site of Orwell’s “Burmese Days” which I had just finished, I was primed for my motorcycle ride with one of the mahouts to the Myanmar Timber Enterprise with a herd of a dozen elephants.  Kathy fed bananas to one while I fed some tamarind to a baby elephant.  After the mahouts washed the elephants with soap wood, several members of our group took a bareback ride.

Going back down the Irrawaddy River, we stopped at Hti Gyint to see a resting Buddha on top of a hill and observe 300 Buddhist monks and nuns processing through the town with empty bowls.

Just before we had to disembark at Mandalay in order to catch our flight to Yangon, stay overnight and fly on to San Francisco, some students from Mandalay’s State Performing Art School presented some “Classical Burmese Dances” on the top deck.  It was a perfect ending to a very memorable trip.

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