{"id":16639,"date":"2015-01-24T19:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/en\/?p=16639"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T08:25:08","slug":"people-burma-thanaka-longyi-lots-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/en\/2015\/01\/24\/people-burma-thanaka-longyi-lots-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"People of Burma: thanaka, longyi and lots of kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People.. You already know that taking pictures of people is one of \u0141ukasz&#8217; travel perversions.. He photographs street merchants, kids, old men, sometimes smiling fishwives, sometimes monks buried in their thoughts. Each picture is preceded with a smile and a question. To be honest with you, Maks gets photographed without permission more often than strangers get photographed by us \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People are surely one the best things about Burma. Usually kind and helpful, even though communicating with them in English may be painful. \ud83d\ude42 Sometimes they&#8217;re a bit irritating like in every country where tourism is a way to make money. When they jump you like vultures after 10 hours spent on a bus or right after leaving the airport, when they raise the prices or make up problems so absurd that you don&#8217;t know if you should laugh or cry. Because there&#8217;s no logical explanation for the unavailability of banana and chocolate pancakes whereas there are both chocolate pancakes and banana pancakes on the menu. They just can&#8217;t serve them together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two things that you first notice about locals are longyi and thanaka. Longyi<\/strong> is a long skirt-shawl which Burmese men wear. Usually dark-coloured, striped or checkered, tied with a knot around the waist. They work in it, drive cars, ride motorbikes. <strong>Thanaka<\/strong> is a peculiar slime which you can see on the faces of some of the people below, usually women&#8217;s or children&#8217;s. We never seen it on men&#8217;s faces. Thanaka may look like recklessly drawn stripes or take form of beautiful shapes. Why? Thanaka cools down your skin and protects it from the sun, it&#8217;s a natural cosmetic, a favourite one in Burma! You can also buy cream that contains it. We even seen billboards advertising it as a &#8230; great way to whiten your skin! One is for certain: thanaka makes women and children in Burma look exotic and intriguing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>After 1.5 weeks spent in Burma we&#8217;re confident enough to say that the Burmese love children. And Maks makes most of them smile.<\/strong> Young girls, couples in love, a wrinkled old lady, Buddhist monks buried in thoughts, drivers, even teenagers with smartphones in their hands who want to have a picture with him! In Burma, we were surrounded by smiles, kindness with no unpleasant situations whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burmese don&#8217;t know much about so called &#8216;customer service&#8217; but that&#8217;s hardly a surprise ;)&#8230; Don&#8217;t expect anybody to take dirty plates from your table, bring extra cutlery or chopsticks. Sometimes you have to ask for it several times, but eventually you always succeed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the people don&#8217;t speak English but there are pleasant surprises too &#8211; In Bagan we met a 10 year old girl who spoke better English than 30 Burmese altogether \ud83d\ude09 We also encountered an amazing waiter, a super-kind driver and a great <em>travel agency<\/em> in Nyaung Shwe by Inle Lake &#8211; Mr A Tun is the name if you ever happen to come here. We found them via <strong>Myanmar Travel Guide<\/strong> app, went to book a trip to Inle and didn&#8217;t want to leave the place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Alright, enough of the talking. People of Burma. I&#8217;ll leave you with them!<\/p>\n<p>PS. love this little boy with thanaka all over him. He sold souvenirs on the bridge in Amarapura. I can&#8217;t stop looking at him \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_01921-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Rangoon, Yangon, people, photographing people\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0185-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Rangoon, people Burma, photographing people, travel photography\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0114.jpg\" alt=\"monk, Burma, Mandalay, monastery, Buddhism, travel photography, photographing people\" width=\"635\" height=\"952\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_01761-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Rangoon, people Burma, photographing people, Botataung\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0167-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Buddhism, monk, people Burma, travel photography, photographing people\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0019-640x960.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Asia, Mandalay, children, people Burma, photographing people\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0007-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people, Mandalay, Amarapura, photographing people\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0003-640x959.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people Burma, photographing people, travel photogaphy\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0153-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people, Mandalay, people Burma, fotografowanie w podr\u00f3zy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0052-640x958.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people Burma, Mandalay, Pa\u0142ac Kr\u00f3lewski, photographing people\" width=\"640\" height=\"958\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0190-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Mandalay, people Burma, photographing people, travel photography\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0066.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people Burma, monk, Buddhism, ma\u0142y Buddhist, travel photography, photographing people\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0142-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people Burma, Rangoon\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_04841-640x959.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, Rangoon, people Burma\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasteaway.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_01091.jpg\" alt=\"Burma, people z Burma, Mandalay\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People.. 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