Sri Mahamariammam Temple & Fortune Tellers

After we picked up our Myanmar visas we were walked around the Indian Hindu Sri Mahamariammam Temple in the Silom area and discovered the streets were lined with fortune tellers. There were not only Indians wanting to know the future, but other Asians, who were probably Buddhists. The fortune tellers were reading large picture cards which were first placed face down then turned face up one at a time to reveal the future. The fortune tellers were aided with incense, braided small white flowers and many yellow marigolds, which are the same flowers that are placed before the gods in a Hindu temple. Some of the fortune tellers also had a photo of a religious leader to make them more credible. Laura was tempted to get her fortune told, but was not sure she wanted to know it, so she passed.

Midge would have been in her element.