Last stop in Myanmar
November 23rd 2016 Just a half day drive to Mt Kyaiktiyo. This is a centre for Buddhist pilgrimages to the Golden Rock (a balancing boulder) which has legends behind it but apparently balances precariously due to the precisely placed Buddha golden hair in the Stupa. I decided to let the younger more athletic ones take the truck up the mountainside and then hike the last part to see it at close quarters, while I wand
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