The second day in Bagan and we visit a few more stupas. The weather has been improving every day and now it is a very sunny morning.
As I mentioned earlier, please do not ask me to name these pagodas as I lost track of where we were when…
Joan is fast on her feet, and does not like to be in the picture, but I still managed to get a shot of her before she could escape…
On the way to Mount Popa, we stopped at a small wooden shack (that’s exactly what it was …) on the side of the road where they made palm sugar and palm alcohol. After collecting the fruit, they needed to crush it to extract the juice. That’s the job for an ox, with a human to add some weight.
The juice is fermented and then distilled in very crude, but simple and effective stills, on a charcoal fire (in a wooden shack! not sure what OSHA would have to say about this). The water in the upper bowl is used for cooling …
As always, we were attracting attention. However, we were not used to how shy these children seem to be – they stayed on their side of the road, looking at us looking at them.
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