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Burma
Myanmar
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Published 2004
Votive candles burn around old Rangoon’s 98-metre-high golden dome of Shwedagon Paya, the most sacred and eleborate of Buddhist sites in Burma, which was rebuilt in 1769, after yet another earthquake had cast it a heavy blow. “A beautiful winking wonder” Kipling called it. North-central Yangon.
An Intha fisherman quietly and methodically stalks fish that lurk in the tangled dark depths of Inle Lake, Shan State, Eastern Burma. Once he’s caught the flicker of a breath on the surface, he sends down his bamboo-framed coneshaped net to catch the life below.
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