Five tourists

One tuktuk

Our guide, KL.

Destination: Shan village,

hike departure point.

Villages house two shrines.

The Buddhist, worshipped twice daily.

The Nat, semimonthly.

Horses and elephants statues

accommodate Nats' travelling needs.

Corn, soya, sesame.

Grown locally

Women pick herbs riverside.

Chinese renters grow watermelon

Feeding their people.

Chinese men pluck wives from the region

Rectifying One Child ripple effects.

KL cannot ascertain married women's happiness.

Mountains undulate,

Fields contrast,

browned and yellowed

Dry season's touch

Villages, not government, finance bridges

Through teak trunk sales

Paved, one day

Small hydroelectric project,

Solar panels

Challenge the time-vacuum,

That is Myanmar