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I’m always on the look-out for weird and wonderful things to bring/send home. We took a walk around Myitkyina’s central market today and this table caught my eye. What were these little bags filled with – might they be little treasures?
Curiosity quickly turned to disgust on closer inspection. My guess is that it’s some sort of apothecary table – weird little mixtures of ground up things-you’d-rather-not-know about. I’ve stared at the close up picture of the severed hands or feet (?) for a while now and still can’t figure out what they came from.
Yuck yuck yuck
It’s seriously freaky stuff – and this was just one example of a number of tables around town, each with their own awful arrangement of nastiness. Fortunately for us, they have actual pharmacies here too. We can rest easy knowing that, should we come down with something, we won’t be fed ground up cadaver foot.
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You know the saying, “to fly by the seat of your pants?” Well, that's been our philosophy for most of our adult lives – before and after meeting, falling in love and marrying. We're now taking that idea on an extended round-the-world trip. Follow us as we share the good, the bad and the downright nasty of life on the road.
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