The Women of Ywangan

Originally posted on A Traveler's Tale:
In a village where women get married and become mothers at a tender age, she chose to remain happily single at 23 but she doesn’t know…

River Houses

July 2016: A row of thatch houses line the banks of Pathein River in Ngaputaw Township. The poor households, who provide the labor inputs in the vast ricefields of the delta during planting… Continue reading →

River Cruise

July 2016: Weary passengers patiently wait as their boat chugs along the Pathein River in the Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar to the township center of Ngaputaw.  Access between the township center and the… Continue reading →

The Women of Ywangan

Fate has so decided that they be born in a remote village of an obscure township called Ywangan. Situated in the hilly region of Southern Shan State in Myanmar, the place can be… Continue reading →

Wharf

A morning scene along the river banks of Ngaputaw in the delta region of Ayeyarwady in Myanmar.  Locals have constructed a jetty and mooring poles made of bamboo for the passenger boats that… Continue reading →

Village Boys

Ngaputaw Township, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar / July 2016:  Mingling with community members, I couldn’t help but wonder what the future lives of the kids would be in a very remote village where majority… Continue reading →

Trapper

Ngaputaw Township, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar:  A local fisherman sets shrimp traps along the banks of a river.  The grove of palm trees that line the river banks provide a perfect habitat for river… Continue reading →

Bamboo Jetty

Ngaputaw Township / July 2016: A couple of ladies carefully make their way to shore through a makeshift bamboo jetty.  Passenger boats ply a river network that connects remote villages to the town… Continue reading →

In Seach

 

A Cloudy Morning

Inle Lake, Myanmar / September 2016:  Situated almost almost 3,000 feet above sea level in the Shan Hills of Myanmar, Inle Lake receives a lot of rainfall and serves as a catch basin… Continue reading →