Photos posted in August 2019

The young man had a meal with her boyfriend in the food stall

The man was selling sugar cane juice squeezed with a big machine

The Buddhist nuns with a pink Kasaya walked in crowds

The little Buddhist nuns stopped on the sidewalk in the center of Yangon

A bucket filled with white liquid was placed in front of the woman selling Kun

The little Buddhist monk watched me with a smile

The Buddhist monk had a breakfast calmly in a crossed-leg position

The dog slept loosely at the entrance

The fruit seller sat on the sidewalk with an expression of boredom

Two pedicab drivers read a tabloid newspaper by the roadside

There was a family with three people on a motorcycle in the middle of the street, trying to make a left turn

The boy sitting in the storefront smiled

A passenger vehicle stopped on the other side of three persons

The schoolboys waiting for the bus on the side of the road had dabba

Bago's downtown area was crowded with people

The mother cut a fish beside her son in the aisle of the market

The girl was sitting in the market aisle selling vegetables

The market was crowded with women wearing vivid clothes

Fish and vegetables were sold in a jumble at the market in Bago

When I pointed the camera at them, the girls were embarrassed and put their hands over their faces

Only one of the three boys made a peace sign

A bindi was attached to the brow of a woman clad in a lace-embellished outfit

In the dry goods store, the men were busy working and the women were slowly reading

Every sack lined up in the store was filled with dried fish

A motorcycle with a cargo bed on the back was parked at the entrance to the market

The buckets were filled with a traditional fermented food called Ngapi

The sun was shining, creating clear shadows on the gravel road

A tattooed man approached me with a smiling face

A woman who was making fried food at a stall picked up the ingredients and put them in the pot

Several containers of grain lined up in front of the smiling man

Seats set up in the back of a passenger bus were full

The driver fiddled with his smartphone for killing time

Women were working surrounded by baskets of quail eggs

The boy locked his friend in a shed in the schoolyard and held the door

A young man was sitting in a well-used bicycle cab waiting for a customer

The mother and son stood in a children's clothing store

The couple just crossed the wide street while snuggling up to each other

The diver stared ahead while holding the wheel

The driver of the bus, a converted motorcycle, laughed at us during his brief stop

The young man leaned back on the motorcycle by the roadside

A man in a tank top was standing on the side of the main road

Two pickup truck buses stopped by the roadside

The golden Mahazedi Pagoda towers under the blue sky

A large group of monks were on the steep steps, cleaning the stupa of the Mahazedi Pagoda

A large reclining Buddha lay in the strong sunlight

A man and two women were selling flowers as an offering at the gate of Shwemawdaw Pagoda

Some flower sellers lied in wait at the entrance

Several worshippers were praying in front of the golden Buddha statue at Shwemawdaw Pagoda

Two women with a parasol were standing in front of the large Shwemawdaw Pagoda

A woman sat in front of many Buddha images in the hall of Shwemawdaw Pagoda