Here in Loikaw

The drive up was actually quicker than we were told...which is always the way to work...underpromise and overdeliver. So the 8 hours turned into 6 hours that ended up being 5 hours. Still a long drive but through pretty scenery. Here is the landscape:

 

 

And here's a standard woven bamboo house

 

 

 

Here's a young man plowing the field

 





And finally just an update on the 'simple and rustic' accommodation.....apparently the beautiful, fertile, iron-rich soil that is so good for agriculture does make it's way into the water supply so that simple and rustic becomes simple and 'RUSTY':

 



and for our soap size sensitive friends, that little white dot by the handle down front is NOT the Jacuzzi jet button...that is the soap....but we did get two of those so one for each of us!