Thursday, October 28, 2010

ဟိုးတုန္းက-၁

ဟိုတုန္းက ပံုအေဟာင္းေလးေတြကို ေတြ႔တာနဲ႔ စုေဆာင္းထားခ်င္တာရယ္၊ ေလ့လာလိုသူေတြ အတြက္ရယ္ကို ရည္ရြယ္ၿပီး မူရင္းအတိုင္း တင္ေပးထား ပါတယ္ .............
Mandalay hill photo taken around 1953. located closed to the Mandalay palace, it is now one of the many tourist attractions in the second largest city of Myanmar. from the top people can have a good bird eye views of the city and its surrounding.
Mandalay palace photo taken around 1953. Located close to the Mandalay hill, it is now one of the many tourist attraction in the second largest city of Myanmar. The palace complex was destroyed by the fire during the word war2. The palace wall, city gate and the surrounding moat still present.

Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon in 1950's. It is one of the highlights of all package tours to Yangon. The 98 meters (326 Ft) high pagoda built on a hill is believed to be one of the earliest pagodas of Gautama Buddha era. It had been built on the Singottara hill more than 2500 years ago.

Yangon city center in 1950's. You can see Sule pagoda, the independence monument, colonial buildings, and the Yangon river in the back ground.

A Myanmar Style wooden house in San Chaung township of Yangon (1948-50). The front part which is a bit lower than the main house is used to keep footwares, umbrellas, brooms, flower posts, etc. It is also the place where people sit in recling chairs and read newspapers and books.


Myit Kyo river in Bago division seen in 1950's. Log refting can be seen on the river.
Timber elephants at work in sitttaung river near Taungoo (1951-1955)
Timber elephant at work in Swa township in Taungoo (1951-1955)

Two timber elephants pulling logs together in tandem in Taungoo (1951-1955)

A timber elephant pulling logs in Swa township, in Taungoo, Myanmar (1951-1955)

Timber elephants on the highway in Swa township in Taungoo Myanmar (1951-1955)



Myanmar timber workers, their elephants, and teak logs for sending oversea. Swa, Taungoo township. Between 1951 and 1955.

A large teak log for sending overseas. Myanmar (Burmese) timber workers and their elephants
(behind the log) posing for photograpg in Swa, Taungoo township (1951-1955)

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