Hi, ASEAN Hive Community! I was very late to join the Boat Challenge when I got the chance to find photos on my hard drive.
Anyway, I am excited to share Myanmar articles in the community. In September 2018, I was in Myanmar for 28 days. As someone from the Philippines which my country is part of the ASEAN countries, we are free to visit Myanmar for 14 days. But if you want to stay for the whole 28 days, you need to avail the electric visa which you need to pay for US$50.
At the Yangon River Port
We were walking around Yangon and we heard something very noisy on the other side of the road. I thought it was a market and there was a festival going on but there was none. Anyway, we continued to walk because we were so curious about what was going on.
This is NOT A TOURIST ATTRACTION as the photos show the ordinary life of Burmese people (or Myanmar people). It was very interesting to see this messy situation. It was very noisy but amusing with the motorized boats and the barker using a megaphone.
This is an everyday scene. You can see people selling something.
I only took photos using my low-quality phone. As much as I wanted to use my Nikon D5100, I never wanted to attract people looking at me. I mean, mostly, I got mistaken for a Myanmar girl so it was good to blend with the locals.
We just came here to do people-watching. This place was really busy, everything was so fast as people were in a hurry to get into the boat. I think this is their traditional river taxi ferry boat.
I saw a lot of black smoke so it smelled so bad. Possible that they were using crude oil for the boats.
It was a nice experience to see the everyday life of Myanmar people. I felt like a time machine brought me a hundred years ago.
Although I wasn't using a nice camera but a low-quality phone, the ambiance of the photo looked so vintage.
Yes, right. Vintage is the right word. The experience made me feel I was brought into the VINTAGE ERA.
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