[Leica] Mandalay

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)]

Beautiful light, surprising scenes, well spotted monks, and cherry on  
top a nice portrait of Indiana Jones - thanks for sharing your troves  
Howard. And thanks to Esther too :-)

Amiti?s
Philippe

Le 4 mai 13 ? 02:31, H&ECummer a ?crit :

> Hello again Luggers,
> On day 4 we flew from Bagan to Mandalay. Four domestic airlines fly  
> small turbo prop planes on the same circular route twice a day -  
> Yangon - Bagan - Mandalay - Hiho (for Inle Lake)  and back to  
> Yangon. All passengers for all flights wait in a single large un-air- 
> conditioned waiting room and leave from the same exit. For boarding  
> the airline ground staff hold up a sign with the flight number and  
> airline name on it and shout out "Boarding! Boarding!" in Burmese  
> and English. There is a rush to line up and passengers for other  
> flights are turned away until it is their turn with another sign.  
> The ground staff counts boarding passes collected for the flight and  
> then, if the count is short, they search for stragglers, wagging the  
> sign as they walk through the terminal shouting "Last Call, Last  
> Call!" Few people get left behind, I'm told, so the simple system  
> works well enough.
>
> In Mandalay, we went to see the U Bein Bridge, made of teak, 1.2 km  
> long and over 200 years old. We were advised to charter a boat to  
> get the best view of the bridge and the sunset.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/HCSunseteakbridgeMandalayw.jpg.html
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> >
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> http://tinyurl.com/cucf63h
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> And here is the bridge the monks silhouetted against the setting  
> sun. The X Pro 1 and the 90 Elmarit from the boat.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BridgeSilhouw.jpg.html
>  
> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/dx5lxae
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> In the lake at sunset, a buffalo herder floated by riding the head  
> buffalo and directing him to swim to shore leading the rest of the  
> herd home:
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/WaterBoyCUw.jpg.html
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> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cfnje66
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> Here's another view of the buffalo boy:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/WaterBuff2Hw.jpg.html
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> >
>
> http://tinyurl.com/d7n6nsr
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> Please look large. C&C always welcome,
>
> Howard (in bright sunny hot vancouver)
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