Faces and Places Myanmar Pic Set # 12 (click on Image to enlarge)

Here are the photo's from our tour to see the so called working Elephants tour that took up a full day and cost 16,000K each.
We set off on motor bikes through the town and down to the first river not realising that the whole tour would be on a motor bike, this tour included six river crossing, three going and three returning, very long beach rides, riding through rough tracks and remote villages and about  60 klm of sealed road.
Overall the return trip must have been well over 100 Klm.




Teresa with her driver



My Driver

Arriving at the first river crossing

Teresa's Driver and boat operator load Teresa's Bike

Teresa's Driver and boat operator load Teresa's Bike

Check out the fuel tank

Across the first river

Second River Crossing, here we had to wait for the boat to do a few trips before it was our turn

Drying fish on the beach

Come back ! what about me

Our bikes being loaded

My Bike and driver on the left

Fish trap

Landing after the second crossing

Off again

collecting money for the third crossing

Once again we dad to wait our turn as the boat made several crossings 

Our turn, our bikes came over on the next crossing

Shop at the landing point 3rd crossing, the fenced area is a deep well

This brown dog hated my guts and let me know it, she talked as well as growled

You have been warned

A shop keeper made me a 3 in 1 coffee

Our drivers said this was a wedding celebration

Arriving at the Elephants

There was five Elephants in total all were teenagers

Not sure what this was

Teresa purchased 3 or 4 small buckets of sugar cane to feed them, the middle one sure was greedy

Bikie having a break after that long bike ride

Its not what you're thinking

The your included a lunch stop at Ngwe Saung Beach

The ride home

The tide was now in

This wharf was high and dry during our morning crossing

This is the last of the photo's from Myanmar