2007 Biking Burma

In Pindaya…

We frequented the local market selling fruit and veg and blackened snakes on skewers to men and women with turbaned heads.

And visited a limestone cave containing 8,094 Buddha statues placed there over several centuries.

 

Of the language and writing one author said: “Burmese has the perverse syntax of Japanese and the tonal complexities of Chinese. Its writing system is based on a devilish series of interconnecting circles.”

He also amused us with these proverbs…

To throw pearls before swine = to play a harp for a water buffalo.

To blow your own trumpet = to praise the pickling of your own fish.

To bask in someone else’s glory = to lean on the sacred white elephant and suck sugar cane.