Mt. Popo

We had the chance to get out of Bagan for a day and travel along one of the main country roads to Mt. Popa.  Along the way there was great scenery of farmers working in the fields and on the roads….

We had the chance to stop by a sugar factory in which they make different candies out of palm fruit- coconut, regular, tamarin, ginger, and plum, including a liquor they make from the palm oil that is rather strong….

Mt. Popa was nothing less than amazing as it said the mother of Mt. Popa is a spirit called a Nat with her family and inhabits the mountain, the hike up was rather fun on 1000 stairs with monkeys stealing something in every direction

The monkeys were the funnest as they were after food, sunglasses, flowers or anything they can get there hands out.  We bought them bananas at the bottom of the hill and watched them snatch them and run away….

As we headed back to Bagan we ended up at Salay Monastery who is a beautiful wooden monastery with lovely carvings that dates back a couple hundred years…