Hpaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival
Our first trip to Myanmar lasted less than a week, but we were hooked and ended up staying nearly a month to work on our MYANMAR 180º book, on our next trip....
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Nya Mee Kyi (Fireworks Carrying Balloons) at the Tazaungdaing Festival in Myanmar
In an earlier post and on our FaceBook 180books fan page we talked about some of the daytime balloons at the Tazaungdaing Festival in Myanmar. Today, I’d like to tell or rather warn...
The Shwe Yan Pyay Monastery, Near Nyaung Shwe, Myanmar
The Shwe Yan Pyay Monastery near Nyaung Shwe, Myanmar, was built early in the 19th Century. The nicely aged, painted teak building features large oval windows and an interior with beautiful mosaics,...
MYANMAR 180º: Manussiha
(Updated St. Valentines Day 2017) The Shwedagon Pagoda Our first trip to Myanmar was a one-week whirlwind style adventure. Although I had already committed to making photographs with a fisheye lens, we hadn’t decided...
The Shwedagon Pagoda
There are some really wild legends about how this pagoda came into being, but I’m going to skip all of that, because this pagoda is interesting enough, without fantasy. Historians estimate that...