Day 2 Journey to Mandalay Myarmar

Our main objective had arrived. We went to Mandalay Marionettes as early after our breakfast to interview the grandmaster & performer. I can say that the people at Mandalay Marionettes we communicate during our presents were really friendly. During the whole interview process, we were very lucky to have Ko Ko, our classmates for IDP to be with us to help on the translation.  I guess without him we may not be able to pull through and we will have a hard time due to language barrier. Not only him, we had our tour guide that actually was there every second with us to communicate to the local for us to understand better.

As the grandmaster of puppetry, obviously he doesn't want this art form to die off. He want this art form to be preserve and said that youngster are not expose to his art form, therefore not many of the new generation is keen to learn. He even mention is willing to teach and guide those who are willing to learn it. 

Ma Ma Naing even prepared the process of making of the puppets for us to capture and document. I think it was really interesting on how the actually carve it. The guys were really patience and skilful.

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After the interview, all of us head to the coffeeshop next to Ma Ma Naing theatre for lunch. It seem to be very popular as there's always people walking in to have their meals. Truly their food was really nice! It was just like Singapore Mee Pok but Myanmar's style with chicken. One of the best meal so far! It was Ma Ma Naing treat, really nice of her.

After main objective is complete, we head to Mandalay Hills that was one of their tourist spot. It was indeed a nice place to visit and maybe get some blessing. It was the highest spot in Mandalay itself. 

If we want to use our Digital Camera to capture picture, we need to pay a cost of $10 to get the ticket and attach it to our camera. The view was really amazing further more with the sunset just make my day.