4174. Dr Sing's Travel Stories. MYANMAR TRAVEL STORIES. A visit to a village in the Karen area, Myanmar

2015 travel.

MYANMAR TRAVEL STORIES. Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow)
A visit to a village in the Karen area, Myanmar

I prefer to visit the villages and to know the way of life of the locals rather than go to tourist spots.  In this trip, I had a good friend who showed me a Karen village and an extended family with a 86-year-old grandpa, kids and two ladies who had had worked in Singapore. Water was drawn from the well for cooking. Mainly farmland, some pigs, goats and chickens. A church building surprised me as temples and pagodas dominate the tourist places I visited.  Rats from farms would be a dish for some villagers.  

I would say that photography and journaling one's travels are good for one's mental well-being as one can reflect on the travels and maybe, prevent or delay the development of dementia.  

It is time-consuming to write one's travel stories, but I wrote about the travel in the blog:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2015/12/visit-to-karen-farmland-hinthada.html

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86-year-old grandpa with no dementia

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Images above show some villagers, a primary school, vegetables for dinner, an extended

family who welcome me, had dinner and a visit to a primary school. A church
was a surprise to me as I had not seen more than a handful in my limited travels in Myanmar.