princekham 3Speak Podcast

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Dear friends,

On the 2nd day, I visited the Buddha Garden located on the mountain. There, it was until 6 that I could not see morning light. I climbed the mountain at about 6:11 AM and reached the highest peak at about 6:48 AM. I could see the whole town from the mountain peak.







The above video and photos below were taken from the top of the mountain.




Another places I visited was the pagoda built on the top of a rock and labyrinth hill. The first place was 14 miles away from Pin Laung, which was about 45 minutes drive. The pagoda was built on a rock the base of which was corroded by water already.




Then, I visited 'Labyrinth hill'. There, I could climb the hill to see the view from above and also I could enter the cave beneath. There were many cave routes which could lead to other outlets; the inside route were similar and could be misleading. Hence, it was called Labyrinth cave, I think.






Lastly, I visited a Shan village near the Labyrinth cave and talked to the monks at the village monastary. I foud the village had big brick houses.




I place I liked most is the Labyrinth cave I think. The cave was long and beautiful with patterns on the wall. It had three to four entrances; only two of them were open not to get people misled. And because I belonged to Shan people I loved to talk to Shan people and visit their villages. It was a sad fact that many of the youth fled to work in Thailand because of the military law and lack of opportunity in the region. I found that Pinlaung had many beautiful and natural places and also trekking places. I tried to visit a waterfall but I had to give up the plan because it can only be reached by trekking in forest. I think the town could become a tourist attraction when the country is peaceful without wars.

@princekham

31st Dec 2025

Myanmar

My trip to mae Hong Son

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Dear friends,

In the festival, there is fire balloon competition and there are three types of competition - animal figures balloons competition in day time and fireworks and decorative balloons at night time. And yesterday I was able to record one of decorative type balloons sending into the air.

The balloon itself was decorated with lanterns and also carried lanterns of some figure - the figure in the video is the prince shooting an arrow at a spider, which are characters from a legendary story.

The balloon festival is held annually at the festival ground on the south of the town.

@princekham

7th Nov 2025

Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu, pagodas on the hill on the west of Mae Hong Son, Thailand. It has a pleasant view over Mae Hong Son, which is located near Thailand - Myanmar border and is around 240 km from Chiang Mai, Thailand.

မယ်ဟောင်ဆောင် တောင်ပေါ်က မယ်ဟောင်ဆောင် တောင်ပေါ်က Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu စေတီလေးပါ။

Visiting Shwe Pone Pwint Pagoda on 16th April 2025.

A nice beautiful scene of the pagoda ground and my home town, Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar.

Peaceful scene from a ဝဋ်ကြွေးကြေ pagoda hill in my hometown, Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar.

တောင်ကြီးမြို့ ဝဋ်ကြွေးကြေ ဘုရားတောင်ကုန်းပေါ်က မြင်ရတဲ့ ရှုခင်းဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

Used oil stoves being used at Dhamma Mahar Pabatha meditation center, Taunggyi, Shan state, Myanmar

တောင်ကြီး ဓမ္မမဟာပဗ္ဗတရိပ်သာမှာ အသုံးပြုဖြစ်သွားတဲ့ အင်ဂျင်ဝိုင်မီးဖိုလေးတွေပါ။
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An early morning view from my home - this was taken when I was doing morning exercises.

အားလုံး မင်္ဂလာပါ။

အရင် အပါတ် တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့က တောင်ကြီး ဓမ္မမဟာ ပဗ္ဗတရိပ်သာမှာ မနက်ပိုင်းတရားထိုင်အပြီးမှာရိုက်ကူးထားတာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ရိပ်သာကတော့ ယောဂီ ပေါင်း ၈၀ ဝန်းကျင်ထိပဲ လက်ခံဖို့နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ယောဂီ တွေဟာ ဝစီပိတ် ကျင့်ကြရပြီး သက်သတ်လွတ်စားကြရပါတယ်။ နှစ်ယောက် တစ်ခန်းနေကြရပါတယ်။ တရားပါတ်တွေက ဆောင်းတွင်းကလွဲလို့ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလကလွဲလို့) လတိုင်းမှာရှိပါတယ်။ ၁၀ရက်တရားစခန်း၊သတိပဌါန် ၊ ရက် ၂၀၊ ရက်၃၀၊ ရက် ၄၀၊ ရက်၆၀ ဆိုပြီး ရှိပါတယ်။ အခြေခံကတော့ ၁၀ရက်တရားစခန်းဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ မိတ်ဆွေတို့လဲ နီးစပ်ရာတရားစခန်းမှာ ဝင်ရောက်တရားအားထုတ်နိုင်ပါတယ်။

အားလုံး ကျန်းမာချမ်းသာကြပါစေ။

Dear friends,

The video was taken at Dhamma Mahā Pabbata Vipassana meditation centre, Taunggyi, Shan state, Myanmar, after Sunday meditation session (4/8/2024). Uploaded using 3Speak Mobile App

A short video of one part of Ramayana dance from Bali - Thida Devi captured by the Orgre (Ravana of Lanka) met the Hanuman Monkey and gave him her hair pin so as to inform her husband Rama that she was alive.

It was a beautiful performance dance from near Uluwatu temple, Bali, Indonesia. And I was able to capture some. The dance is know as Kecak Uluwatu Dance. And I found that they used no musical instrument but the cha cha cha sound shouted by the men.

The veiw of the sea from the Uluwatu temple view point is also beautiful. It is one of the recommended tourist place.

Below are some of the photos of the dance taken by me.