Trip 2015-16. Day 326. Myanmar, Hsipaw

Hsipaw was a great example of the closeness between beauty and ugliness, life and death.
On our way to the beautiful Namtok waterfall we first had to pass through a burning noxious field of rubbish.

The road to the refreshing hot springs started at an expanse of cemeteries representing the different faiths living in town. Children were playing and bathing in the river just next to the smoking crematorium...