![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_070859-1024x498.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThis morning we woke to find that the small tree to which we had moored last night was still in place!\u00a0 And we were still firmly tied to it!\u00a0 The story going round says that there had originally been a row of six trees at this spot!<\/p>\n
The sun rose out of an early morning mist.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The river here divides and rejoins over and over again. There are little islands and sand banks all over the place.\u00a0 At one point we went gently aground and had to reverse off the sand bar and try a different route.\u00a0 The captain even broke out our own black and white graduated depth measuring poles on the bow…\u00a0 All a bit worrying!<\/p>\n
By 9 o’clock we had moored up again near the small village of Nan-gat-gyi.\u00a0 Apparently this village had had to relocate some 750 metres away from the river after a major erosion had washed away a large part of the village.\u00a0 We were met by a reception committee of youngsters from the village.\u00a0 So that solves the problem of the school being shut!\u00a0 We had plenty of willing customers for our notebooks, pencils and crayons!<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_085742_crop_818x449-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Lots of corn, bean, chillies and tobacco growing around the village.\u00a0 We were accompanied by an ever-increasing number of youngsters – some apparently dressed in their Sunday best to welcome us.\u00a0 We passed the funeral of one 80 year old resident and met the village elder (93 years).\u00a0 But mostly our entourage were in the 1-7 year age group!<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_095527-1024x498.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
The whole village seemed genuinely pleased to see us.\u00a0 We were given a demonstration of how to separate white beans from their pods – bash them with a lump of wood, manually lift off most of the empty pods, then put the partly separated beans through a bean sieve.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_093141-1024x498.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_093210-e1548585070457-498x1024.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
The locals have hand-pumps for water…<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_102344_crop_619x434.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
… and carry loads in interesting ways…<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_102212_crop_717x487.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20190127_102604-1024x498.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Think that’s enough for this message.\u00a0 Not sure the local internet can cope!\u00a0 But before I go…<\/p>\n
One of our fellow passengers walked into the ship’s lounge last night and ordered a beer. The barman put it on the bar but a monkey jumped up and drank it. So the guy ordered another but the same thing happened again.<\/em> This morning we woke to find that the small tree to which we had moored last night was still in place!\u00a0 And we were still firmly tied to it!\u00a0 The story going round says that there had originally been a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe said to the barman “Your monkey drank my beer!” <\/em>
\n“It’s not my monkey – it belongs to the pianist.” <\/em>
\nThe guy walked up to the pianist and says “Do you know your monkey drank my beer?”<\/em>
\n“No, but if you hum the first few bars, I’ll try and pick it up!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"