Creative Photographs by Shelly Rosenberg

Pindaya On our way to Pindaya we stopped at a small market.         Then farther on we passed through areas of open fields and farms with various ...

The Padong Women are the long necked women. They live in a small village but come into Inle Lake area to a weaving shop each day where they weave and ...

Phaung Daw Ol Pagoda Festival, School and In Dein Market We cruised our way to Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda on this (unusually) rainy day. This is the home of...

Inle Lake was one of my favorite parts of our Myanmar trip. We boarded two long tail cargo canoes (for us and our luggage) to get to our hotel. The ca...

There are monks and monasteries all over Myanmar. Here is an old wooden monastery, Shwe Yaunghwe. The young monks are called novices. Every Buddhist...

Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred site in Burma. Here, we walked barefoot, as everyone else. We slowly moved clockwise around the immense gold gild...

TRISHAW The trishaw is a hybrid of a bicycle and is seen all over Myanmar. People are very adept at loading and balancing lots of items onto one trish...

GARLIC PLANTING One garlic at a time all planted by hand. Also note the barefoot woman. When I looked carefully I could see that each bud of garlic wa...

We stayed in real nice hotels (and rather expensive ones) in Myanmar. It seems that the country wants to encourage tourism and one way to do so is to ...

PAGODAS ARE EVERYWHERE! Sule Pagoda is in the heart of downtown Yangon. It is an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology, and geog...

Our Burmese guide. My masseur in cafe in Heho. A woman in Heho selling wild honeycomb. This woman seemed to be overseer in a corn “factory”...