Saturday, January 10, 2015

The Reigning Golden Boulder Champion - Mt. Kyaiktiyo

This is scene approaching the boulder. It was insane. Apparently it isn't normally this crowded, we were just lucky!

You can see men approaching the boulder to affix gold leaf to it on the right.

This is the bus on the way down. You can see Jin on the right in the hat. The guy on the left with his hand out is attempting to get money from the passengers for the fare down the hill.

There were infinite make shift tents with local people hanging out. These people were not homeless. They were just hanging out for a very long period of time for some reason. Pretty much every inch of the sides of the walkways was taken by different people in their tents.





You have no idea how difficult it was for us to get this picture. It took several people many attempts to even use our more simple camera. Then we had to wait for at least ten minutes for the crowd to dissipate enough for us to get a picture. Plus, about ten different guys asked me to take pictures with them while I was waiting for them to get out of the way.


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