Golden
Rock Temple - 2010
We flew from Inle Lake back to Yangon and then travelled in a minibus to the Golden Rock Temple,
about 200km from Yangon.
The lowlight of the whole trip was being squeezed into the back of the truck for the trip
part-way up the mountain. Somebody had a monolopy here.
The last stretch was very steep.
I took the opportunity of a ride in a sedan chair.
It was wet at the top and it was difficult to get good pictures of the Golden Rock Temple.
Legend says that the boulder maintains its balance on the edge of the ridge where it sits
due to a precisely placed Buddha hair in the stupa.
Golden Rock Pagoda is an important pilgrimage site for the Burmese people.
Some scenes in the nearby village.
A rubber plantation
Latex sheets.
We flew from Inle Lake back to Yangon and then travelled in a minibus to the Golden Rock Temple,
about 200km from Yangon.
The lowlight of the whole trip was being squeezed into the back of the truck for the trip
part-way up the mountain. Somebody had a monolopy here.
The last stretch was very steep.
I took the opportunity of a ride in a sedan chair.
It was wet at the top and it was difficult to get good pictures of the Golden Rock Temple.
Legend says that the boulder maintains its balance on the edge of the ridge where it sits
due to a precisely placed Buddha hair in the stupa.
Golden Rock Pagoda is an important pilgrimage site for the Burmese people.
Some scenes in the nearby village.
A rubber plantation
Latex sheets.
