Friday 30 December, Sunny. Yesterday’s travel mates have been lost to their own journeys. Who abandoned who? Mutual or not? What is the price of thing? Is the value purely commercial, or is there a moral value of a deal? Does a common decency affect the price? Do arseholes pay more or less and is there a …. My tour guide at Mi Pagoda says: Myanmar, 2013-14 Asian Games, ASEAN Chair. 2015 Join ASEAN free trade zone. Govt predicts 25% increase per annum. Oct 2010- March 2011 – 1 Million tourists. Silk weavers in Inle reportedly make K15,000 per day, with up to 3 girls working on the one cloth. one intricate cloth reportedly takes 6 weeks to make. That equals about K500,000. 2100 rooms in Yangon 1000 rooms in Bagan 5000 Rooms required for the asian games. Ordinary labour (painting, building) only pays K2500-4500 per day.
Dinner at Weatherspoons, with Japanese man who works for Fujifilm TFT Technology. Send postcards to:
Mar Mar San, Near the Shwe San Daw Pagoda, Old Bagan, Myanmar.