Handmade everything in Myanmar
Myanmar is a country where things are done by hand. Not just the tourist souvenirs,but normal things as well. Everything from the cultivation of the fields, to utensils, clothing, religious objects, decorative arts, including the walls of their houses which are made of bamboo!. Much of the trip included one or more visits to the workshops to see how they made the local products: Silk fabrics, the gold leaf stick, Burmese Buddha statues in the temples , the bowls and lacquered bamboo boxes, and so on. And it helps to stay with a romantic medieval image of the country. I'm not sure that is the case, as it is ruled by a military junta which intends to iron socialist doctrines of the former Communist China, but I'm not sure that the free market, mechanization and consumerism in which we live is the best.
