Killing time before I had to head to the train station to catch my ten o'clock train, I walked up to the main intersection and saw the nuns walking around the town collecting their evening offerings of rice from the devout across town. Of course I stopped and took some pictures and by the time they got on their transport out of town they were all waving - what lucky timing.
Burma, as most of its neighbours, is such a religiously devout country. Christians live alongside Hindus, Muslims but are small communities outside the ever present Buddhist faith, with golden temples on every hill, glittering in the sun and across all the land.
It is so important to remember that the 'saffron uprising' in 2007 was led by the monks. They formed the 'All Burma monk alliance' and marched daily across all the major cities protesting against massive price rises and the militarily dictatorship. Predictably this ended with thousands of monks being jailed.
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