Sunday, August 19, 2007










We spent the afternoon on a pretty interesting whirlwind tour of Sagaing. Our first stop was a nunnery, where the nuns ran an orphanage and school. It was housed in a pretty old building, and it seemed like a pretty serious place. We were told beforehand to not take photos and to be quiet because the girls were having their lessons, and because the nuns didn't like having their photos taken. I therefore don't have any photos, and I'll show you some other Sagaing temples instead. But I should have kept in touch with Romana, an Italian woman on the trip with her husband and another couple. They took dozens of photos of her husband hugging the nuns, closeups of the kids being interrupted during their classwork by crazy Italian tourists, etc.

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