Last year (2008) during my Myanmar photo tour, I was sitting in the shade at the foot of Mingun Pagoda enjoying a Coke when a Buddhist monk drove up in a home made truck with a load of Burmese folks in the back. Being one of the few foreigners around (tourism was way down due to political unrest and cyclone Nargis), he and I started chatting. I commented on his truck and he immediately said “let’s go for a ride”, so I said sure and walked over to the passenger side of the truck to get in. Before I could get in and sit down he said, no you drive!
The full story and more photos here:
http://www.karlgrobl.com/BurmaTruckDriver/index.htm
