[LRflex] Re: Mandalay U Bein Bridge
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 17:57:55 -0700
Oh! Now I REALLY want to go! :-)
You were lucky with your timing & sunsets ... first the balloon, then the
monks. What's next?
All great shots!
David.
> Hello again Flexers,
> On day 4 we flew from Bagan to Mandalay. Four domestic airlines fly
> small turbo prop planes on the same circular route twice a day - Yangon -
> Bagan - Mandalay - Hiho (for Inle Lake) and back to Yangon. All
> passengers for all flights wait in a single large un-air-conditioned
> waiting room and leave from the same exit. For boarding the airline
> ground staff hold up a sign with the flight number and airline name on
> it and shout out "Boarding! Boarding!" in Burmese and English. There is
> a rush to line up and passengers for other flights are turned away until
> it is their turn with another sign. The ground staff counts boarding
> passes collected for the flight and then, if the count is short, they
> search for stragglers, wagging the sign as they walk through the
> terminal shouting "Last Call, Last Call!" Few people get left behind,
> I'm told, so the simple system works well enough.
>
> In Mandalay, we went to see the U Bein Bridge, made of teak, 1.2 km long
> and over 200 years old. We were advised to charter a boat to get the
> best view of the bridge and the sunset.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/HCSunseteakbridgeMandalayw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cucf63h
>
> And here is the bridge the monks silhouetted against the setting sun.
> The X Pro 1 and the 90 Elmarit from the boat.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BridgeSilhouw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/dx5lxae
>
> In the lake at sunset, a buffalo herder floated by riding the head
> buffalo and directing him to swim to shore leading the rest of the herd
> home:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/WaterBoyCUw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cfnje66
>
> Here's another view of the buffalo boy:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/WaterBuff2Hw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/d7n6nsr
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome,
>
> Howard (in bright sunny hot vancouver)
>
>
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