SALAY AND MAGWAY

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Tuesday pulled into Salay a 7,000 resident village founded in 13^thCentury with very British colonial feel with lovely preserved old buildings and in fact our tour director has renovated a beautiful building and it now houses a museum, restaurant and shop. Had a great feel to the place with lots of young novice monks around town. There was procession of all decorated vehicles and everyone dressed in beautiful dress, a ceremony for the new novice monks and also for the young girls ear piercing. We visited a beautiful old wooden monastery designed as a copy of the Crown Prince House of Mandalay. Great to see a slightly different town. Afternoon sailing the Irrawaddy.

Wednesday Magway by trishaw to local market. This is quite a big city 500,000 people. Great way to see around Magway in the trishaw then to Myat Than Lun Paya pagoda. Along our travels around town kids came running from everywhere to get a glimpse of us, so funny, waving madly! Couple of dark beers at the local bar across the road from the river then back to boat but was greeted with "wait a minute", no gangway and turning boat around, we were stuck there for about an hour and missed happy hour, they had a lot of trouble anchoring the boat but finally got back on board at 7.00p.m. just in time for dinner.

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Photos

IRRAWADDY RIVER
Morning walkers

SALAY
English colonial architecture

SALAY
Flower sellers

SALAY
Repairing truck, its a wonder it goes at all!

SALAY
Many beautiful old buildings

SALAY
Novices out and about

SALAY
Parade

SALAY
Lovely local people

SALAY
and more gorgeous kids!

SALAY
It still works??!!

SALAY
They have buses here

SALAY
and one fire truck

SALAY
Monastery

SALAY
Having a rest

SALAY
So many beautiful buildings that need renos

SALAY
Teak monastery

MONASTERY
Ceilings

MONASTERY
All hand done

IRRAWADDY RIVER
River life

SALAY
Hairdressers

MAGWAY
Sunset over the Irrawaddy from the bar

Comments

[Norma]

Salary etc.
Just read my evening " blog" ,very interesting as usual .! ! ! Older buildings are beautiful Two boys in picture , young Novice Monks , how old were they ? They look far too young to be doing what they are . But ! I believe they start very young .Proccession would have been interesting ,I guess , & very colourful as well .events like that ,in other country's are good to see , but then Australia seldom have such things .sunny & warm today , change coming they tell us . Thanks again for your update , very interesting . Cheers for now , Oh ! Had card from your parents today ,which was good to hear fro them . Love. Norma x

[Norma]

Salary etc.
Just read my evening " blog" ,very interesting as usual .! ! ! Older buildings are beautiful Two boys in picture , young Novice Monks , how old were they ? They look far too young to be doing what they are . But ! I believe they start very young .Proccession would have been interesting ,I guess , & very colourful as well .events like that ,in other country's are good to see , but then Australia seldom have such things .sunny & warm today , change coming they tell us . Thanks again for your update , very interesting . Cheers for now , Oh ! Had card from your parents today ,which was good to hear fro them . Love. Norma x

[John and Gloria Travels]

Lovely to hear from you, we are yet to find out what salary the boat boys get but John onto it, they not allowed to discuss it, so must be very low! The novice monks we reckon they were about 8-10 years old....far too young! Last night on the boat tonight then head to Yangon (Rangoon) xx

[Rhonda]

Hi there
Got to say Glor......(maybe again)....I am really loving your photo's......especially your people photos as they really give a visual of what you are experiencing!!! Can see you are both loving it :)

[John and Gloria Travels]

Yes we are loving the people, so friendly! Last night tonight on the boat then we head to Yangon (Rangoon) xx