Comments on: The Ultimate Trip? http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435 The blog for Opportunity Foundation Thailand and Travel in SE Asia Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435&cpage=1#comment-109 admin Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:44:24 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435#comment-109 There are few places in Myanmar where you do not have at least one stupa (Buddhist shrine) in sight. In Bagan there are usually more like 15 - 20 in sight anywhere you are. The structures you refer to are Buddhist shrines in Bagan. There are a few thousand of them if I remember right, about 1000 years old. Most of those we entered (the Buddha looking down at us is in one) had a solid interior with four corridors around the rim. Each corridor could have a Buddha statue. They might be basically the same each having a different expression. Some were considerably more massive than the one I pictured. Anyone going to Myanmar must not miss Bagan. There is nothing else like it. There are few places in Myanmar where you do not have at least one stupa (Buddhist shrine) in sight. In Bagan there are usually more like 15 – 20 in sight anywhere you are. The structures you refer to are Buddhist shrines in Bagan. There are a few thousand of them if I remember right, about 1000 years old. Most of those we entered (the Buddha looking down at us is in one) had a solid interior with four corridors around the rim. Each corridor could have a Buddha statue. They might be basically the same each having a different expression. Some were considerably more massive than the one I pictured. Anyone going to Myanmar must not miss Bagan. There is nothing else like it.

]]> By: Carol Kerr http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435&cpage=1#comment-108 Carol Kerr Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:31:52 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435#comment-108 Hi Jack, this is a wonderful idea...this blog of yours! I'm looking at the picture associated with your discussion of vacationing in Myanmar...dated Dec. 13, 2009. There are a series of elaborate buildings in the background...separated a good distance from one another. I'm curious as to what they are...they look too elaborate to be homes or dwellings, and quite numerous to be sacred places. Have a wonderful trip over the Christmas vacation time! I continue to marvel at how God has used you both for His work abroad! Hi Jack, this is a wonderful idea…this blog of yours! I’m looking at the picture
associated with your discussion of vacationing in Myanmar…dated Dec. 13, 2009. There are a series of elaborate buildings in the background…separated a good distance from one another. I’m curious as to what they are…they look too elaborate to be homes or dwellings, and quite numerous to be sacred places.
Have a wonderful trip over the Christmas vacation time! I continue to marvel at how God has used you both for His work abroad!

]]> By: admin http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435&cpage=1#comment-106 admin Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:10:42 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435#comment-106 I will look into that. At the moment if you could just copy and paste: http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/ into your email, that should give someone all the info they need to get here. Jack I will look into that. At the moment if you could just copy and paste:

http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/

into your email, that should give someone all the info they need to get here.

Jack

]]> By: Thai Traveler http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435&cpage=1#comment-101 Thai Traveler Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:58:28 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=435#comment-101 wow jack... amazing pictures.... now i want to go there... hey ..is there any way you can add to your blog a way to send the blog address to to an email contact...ie... add a friend to the blog .... a link? thanks you and thanks for all the info here ....i read it all the time... wow jack… amazing pictures…. now i want to go there… hey ..is there any way you can add to your blog a way to send the blog address to to an email contact…ie… add a friend to the blog …. a link? thanks you and thanks for all the info here ….i read it all the time…

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