Drive between Bagan and Mt. Popa

Road leading east out of Bagan towards Mt. Popa	Tuyin Taung, a hilltop pagoda to the southeast of Bagan, 1059 AD	The road between Bagan and Mt Popa is lined with a number of places that make palm liquor and sweets	Bull-powered grinding wheel
Dennis driving the bull round and round	Well-worn path around the grinding wheel	Palm fruit is placed inside the grinder	Palm oil extracted from the fruit of the toddy palm
The extracted oil is used to make palm liquor (arak) and a sweet candy	Dennis with his new friend	Dennis hugging a bull	Dennis at the palm liquor distillery outside Bagan
Burmese palm liquor maker	Palm liquor distillery outside Bagan	Palm liquor distillery outside Bagan	Pottery vessels at the Palm liquor distillery outside Bagan
Fruit of the Toddy Palm	A short prayer before climbing the palm	Burmese man climbing a palm	Harvesting fruit from the Asian Palmyra (Toddy Palm)
Borassus flabellifer, - Asian Palmyra palm, Toddy palm, sugar palm,	Toddy Palm fruit harvester	Toddy Palm fruit harvester	The guide Thu Ya Aung describing the fruit
Weaverbird nest	Boiling the palm oil extract to make candy	Traditional candy made from the Asian Sugar Palm	Palm oil extract
Distillery for Burmese palm liquor	Distillery for Burmese palm liquor	Burmese woman grinding Thanaka, the traditional powder make-up	Applying Thanaka
Thanaka (သနပ်ခါး) is used as makeup and as sunscreen	Thanaka produces a cooling sensation on the skin	Tea and traditional Burmese snacks	Tourist smoking a large handmade Burmese cigar
Dennis with his Thanaka facepaint and a Burmese cheroot	...I don't think he liked it...	Our Bagan guide with a bottle of local liquor	Bullock cart in rural Myanmar
House of woven palm fronds, Myanmar	Freshly built palm hut along the road between Bagan and Mt Popa	Freshly built palm hut along the road between Bagan and Mt Popa	Hut thatched with dried palm fronds near Mt. Popa
Field studded with Asian Sugar Palms	Rural pagoda dated 20.03.05	Road between Bagan and Mt. Popa	Bullock cart carrying a heavy load
Overloaded bullock cart on the road between Bagan and Mt Popa	The road between Bagan and Mt. Popa, around 45 km	Bullock cart pulling mounted with an oil drum	Kyaukpadaung, a town near Mt. Popa
Market and shop with ad for Dagon Beer, Kyaukpadaung