World at Work - Cigar Making - Inle Lake - Myanmar.

For my latest World at Work post I have chosen to share a visit to a Cigar Making Centre in Inle Lake

I am also sharing this post today with Our World Tuesday

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One of the photos I used here today, also featured in a recent Travel Tales post about my visit to Inle Lake

I used an additional photo of the process for a Macro Monday 2 post on this blog yesterday

Macro Monday - Leaves

I took this photo of the leaves used in the making of Cigars on my visit to Myanmar.  I will be featuring more photos of the Cigar making process in my World at Work series tomorrow.

The photo today was chosen for Macro Monday 2

Macro Monday 2

Faces On Friday - Cheroot Smoking Lady - Myanmar

During our travels in Myanmar we often saw ladies smoking cigars, technically Cheroots, as they are a cylindrical cigar with both ends clipped during manufacture. During our visit we did in fact on another occasion see them being manufactured, but I will save those photos for another post. Although also smoked in other countries cheroots are most commonly associated with Myanmar by the British, maybe because smoking them was so widespread in the colonial days. They also feature in George Orwell's novel Burmese Days and Kipling's Mandalay. The photo I have shared today was taken during a visit to Maha Muni Pagoda .

I have posted more photos from this visit on my blog Travel Tales in the post entitled Mandalay - Part Two - Impressions of Myanmar.