Myanmar, Before the Turquoise Water

Hi, it’s Kylie. I’m writing about my vision on our time in Bagan. We started our sight-seeing the day after we flew into Yangoon and spent the night. That next morning we met our guide Tun Tun, who was very nice, but showed us sort of the same stuff in all the monasteries and pagodas/temples. However, we started by going to directly Tun Tun’s cool village after he picked us up from the airport. In the village we saw...

...the Noviciation Ceremony, where we watched young girls from the ages of 9 to 15 walking in a straight line in beautiful, colorful, and traditional Myanmar dresses. They were throwing flowers, and had lots of paint on their faces and bodies. After all of the girls passed by, we saw the boys riding on top of horses. But these boys were not normal, no. They had long, bright, glittery dresses on, crowns to match the dress colors, and had the local Burmese men waiting on them hand and foot. The horses were all decked out, too. The boys were from the ages 7-15. It was crazy and very beautiful to see. That was one of the things I adored seeing in the country part of Myanmar.