Mingalaba! Today, we take a bus to Mout Popa, a national park and believed to be the sacred home of powerful “Nats.”(spirit gods) Superstition is rampant in Myanmar, as is the spirit world and astrology readings. We stop at Mount Popa Resort for lunch and the view is spectacular of Mount Popa set a top of a rocky crag with a complex of temples and pagodas for the Nats. The rocky pinnacle is so high the clouds float below it giving it a Shangri-la image.
After lunch we go down to the town at the base of the Mount. There are 777 steps that wind precariously up the side of the mountain to reach the Nat home. In the town below there are monkeys every where and a museum that houses the replicas of the Nat spirits.
On the way back to the boat, we stop at a palm plantation, where they climb up the tree to seek palm oil that is made into candy and a strong alcohol.
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