I like traveling. Within my lifetime beside some foreign travels I have done some satisfying domestic travels. Traveling started only when I was in University and then after I got working. When young we were not taken anywhere because our parents were not that kind of people to go places for leisure and also we lack the means for traveling.

While attending the Institute of Education, I joined 2 excursion trips with my class, 1 to Pyay, Srikhetaya and one to Bagan  Poppa. Unfortunately  the latter met an accident resulting in demise of 3 persons. It happened on the second day,at Poppa , when we were due to visit Bagan, that we didn’t get the chance to visit there ,but to go back to Yangon or to our respected homes.

I remember an incident which happened on the Pyay trip. One student by the name of AAM got possessed by some spirit at Po Oo Taung. When I came to notice she was tied with a scarf around her chest like  a nat or spirit. She was begging our teacher(lecturer ) U Soe Lin to let her go….Please saya… please let me go…..If she was allowed to go then ,maybe she would die on the spot,I thought.But who would say … U can go….Instead our teacher and some students might have been busy to drive away the spirit and make her well again. In the end all was well as AAM could come back to Yangon with the excursion group.

During my school years at Institute of Education  I went to visit Moulmein once with a friend from Moulmein.I could not recall vividly the places we visited ,but surely MML would have taken us to pay homage to famous pagodas ,which are plentiful in Moulmein and also to Kyaik Maraw and Kyaik Kami…

until next blog…..