Myanmar

Myanmar is the most authentically non western country/culture i have ever seen or been in. Fields with over 1000 buddha statues 4 or 5 times life size. Reclining buddha statues the size of ocean liners that you can walk in like the statue of liberty, only MUCH BIGGER, so much so trucks can drive inside the reclining buddha. Monks everywhere. Children everywhere. Pagodas in caves, stupas on seemingly unreachable pinnacles, mountaintop villages that can be accessed only by foot and that must be what Shangri La was intended to depict. 85% of the people are engaged in agriculture. Ox carts. 1940 chevy trucks. Women with yellow caked faces, men wearing longyis. Even in the cities people cook with wood and charcoal. Refrigeration is rare, mostly styrofoam and ice. Even on the moving train they cook with wood.