10-3 (Tuesday) Began

This morning we had a European breakfast on the roof of the hotel. It was lovely.

We took off to look at some of the 100’s and 100’s of temples/pagodas that dot the landscape. By the time we finished seeing so many at the end of the day I didn’t care if I ever saw another Buddha!

We took a noon break and had lunch at a Chinese restaurant. We stopped by some lacquer ware factories then went to the hotel to rest and relax for an hour. After rest it was back to more temples and Buddhas. We went down to the Irrawaddy River and rented a boat for an hours ride. We saw women pounding their clothes on the rocks. Women loading up water in large containers and putting it on their heads to carry home. We saw a tourist boat that runs back and forth between Began and Mandalay. Coming back into shore the guy ripped a metal railing right off his boat when he got too close to the boat next to him. We went off to see one last (so we thought) pagoda. This is the one where everyone goes to see the sunset. It was a fantastic sight looking down at so many temples.

We thought we were on our way to eat dinner when we left the pagoda but NO we went to another pagoda! You have to take your shoes off each time you go in these places and our feet were killing us walking around on that hard concrete. THEN the guys wanted to go out to dinner but we were too tired. We went back to the room, ate crackers and went to bed.