Our last day in Myanmar was both anticlimactic and more interesting than expected. The interesting part came when we stopped at a workshop where the craftspeople were hand-making the parasols and a special paper that included flowers right in it.
The workmanship is like magic, and it is very hard to describe. Like the other craft work we saw, you have to watch it in person to appreciate how intricate and impressive it is. Each piece of "paper" took at least six hours to make -- and yet we were paying such a low price for it. Like others we saw in Myanmar, it is a dying art, as the Chinese are making it faster and cheaper using automation. The quality is not nearly as impressive, but consumers generally prefer cheaper to higher quality.
We flew back to Yangon from He Ho airport. We hopped on our last bus of the trip as a group, and went to lunch at the best Italian restaurant in Yangon. I don't remember the name of it, and can't recall even when looking at Trip Advisor (there are 39 Italian restaurants, including pizza joints in Yangon).
It was a fun last meal as a group. Carol and I had a plane to catch to Singapore, so we caught a car back to the airport after saying our goodbyes. It's great that all of us are doing the Arctic trip in June 2018!
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8 hours to boil, 2 hours to pound, 2 hours to dry.
Paper takes 12 hours to make.
The restaurant is called L'opera.
I can't stop reading about our trip! Just a great job Glen!
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