Tourists storm Pyin-Oo-Lwin's train platform

Must-see Goteik viaduct awaits

Many tourists exchange seats with locals

For threadbare cushions with a view.

Passing through fields and forest,

A cliff face stares us down

The      train    slows    to     a      crawl.

It meanders down toward the trestles

Considered the highest worldwide,

Back in 1900.

We hope for good maintenance.

It hasn't taken a life, yet.

The train creaks,

We pass over a jungle encircled river,

102 meters below.

Arms jut out

Clutching cameras, self-sticks and phones

Train curves toward the cliff edge's safety

A tunnel swallows us whole.

Spits us into rice fields.

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