A few weeks ago we visited the National Races Museum with Thorsten-the-German. It was quite a fun place set in lovely gardens, with lots of replica traditional wooden houses representing each of the major “races” of Myanmar.
At each house you could dress up in traditional clothing and have your photo taken. We pleasingly managed to avoid this, but on arrival in “Kachin” we were greeted by a lovely fellow visitor who had dressed up in Kachin traditional clothing but who wanted a photo of more than just herself in front of a concrete-not-to-scale-mountain… something to add a bit more authenticity to the scene perhaps? Three pasty faces, 2 with beards, in traditional European clothing was apparently just what was required. So began quite a long photo shoot which involved photos of us standing in front of the concrete mountains, climbing up the concrete mountains, posing on the suspension bridge between the concrete mountains, climbing down the concrete mountains… and finally standing at the bottom of the concrete mountains on the other side (of the range?).
… although no that was not the end. Two small girls were also dressed up as small Kachin girls and having their photo taken, when their family spotted the 3 pasty faces enjoying photo time on the mountain. They DID NOT want to miss out on the action… and so there were more photos with small people in front of the mountains, and besides a pond mountain lake. One of the girls took a shine to Ant and clasped onto his arm the whole time. The resulting photos look like quite the random family snap.
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