Our Wonderful Guide: Bunny

Park Royal Hotel Lobby

Hotel Swimming Pool

View of Apartments from Hotel Room. Note all the Satellite Dishes

City Street

Downtown

Buddhist Temple Downtown

Old Colonial Building

Christian Church

Outdoor Dining

Bird Vendor - Buying a bird and releasing it is supposed to bring good luck.

Heavy Load

Street Vendors

The display on the bikes are offerings to the monks.

Entrance to Monastery we visited to participate in providing food for the Buddhist monks and nuns.

Rice to feed the Monks

The monks line up to receive food. To view short video of this, click here

Then came the Buddhist Nuns

Afterwards, the monks dine silently.

Historic Scott Market

Everything for sale from fabric to food to jewelry.

Offerings for the Monks

Barb looks forward to lunch

Beautiful Place Setting

Our group enjoys lunch

Bunny Received Her Degree

Shwedagon Pagoda - Also called the Golden Pagoda. It was built about 600 BC and is the most sacred pagoda in Myanmar, housing relics of the past 4 Buddhas.

Tree where Buddha meditated. Brought from India in 1926.

The Shwedagon Pagoda complex is huge and contains many smaller pagodas, stupas and temples.

Buddhist Nuns Praying to Buddha

Fred pours water on Buddha Statue at shrine of his day of birth - Monday

Barb does the same at Friday Shrine. It is supposed to bring luck.

The temple is covered with real gold bricks. It stands 326 feet tall and the top has 1800 carats of diamonds.