Monkey Forest Road

March, 2000

Monkey Forest Roada witch doctor down by the river, dancing among the snakes--this is not a good signWe had stumbled out evening. Most of us were American and British engineers, consultants to the Aussies, who were opening a nickel mine on the Tessarim Coast; a couple of the French were with the Libyans, who were mining uranium up in Chauk. The old Canadian guy was already sitting at the end of the bar when we showed up, and at first only let on he was here in Myanmar building a hotel on Letsok-...