One afternoon in the mid January I stopped in Pyay on my bus trip from Yangon to Bagan. The curiosity crawled to my head to saw the people that filled half of the road. I was wondering what kind of ceremony took placed at that time. And it was worth for a stop back then. The people celebrated the Shin Pyu ceremony, the initiation rite when a child become a monk.
This boy's cheek dressed with tanaka. A traditional sun protective traditional make up. It made from wooden plant, dust into powder in a stone grinder.
