Wednesday, 20 May 2009 | Views [3338]
Day 21 - Inle Lake
We started early so we could fit in a whole day trip on the lake, sharing a boat with some Swedish friends from our guest house. The longboat took us down
the 3 mile canal to get to the entrance to the lake ... Read more >
Tags: inle lake, yangon
Monday, 11 May 2009 | Views [2708] | Comments [1]
Day 17 - Kalaw
Having seen all that we wanted to see but by no means all the sites in Bagan, we decided that with our new found passion for early mornings we would catch the 3.30am bus to Kalaw. Ok, it was the only bus and we had no other options ... Read more >
Tags: kalaw
Friday, 8 May 2009 | Views [1990]
Day 12 - Mandalay to Bagan We decided on Bagan (formally Pagan) as our next destination, which is high on the list of architectural wonders of South East Asia. In the morning we awoke to find 5 other travellers making the same trip, and we would ... Read more >
Tags: bagan
Sunday, 3 May 2009 | Views [3148]
Day 7 - Mandalay to Pyin U Lwin After another sleepless night, with no electricity to work the air con and the hotel generator giving up the ghost so not even the fan worked to move the hot air around, we decided to leave the heat of Mandalay a ... Read more >
Tags: mandalay, moustache brothers, pyin u lwin
Monday, 27 Apr 2009 | Views [4566] | Comments [3]
The road to Mandalay is lined with bamboo huts, children bathing and playing in ponds, ox carts and loose cattle meandering down the road, men playing Chinlon (a version of keepy uppy with a cane rattan ball), all very idyllic. Then we hit a junction.... Read more >
Tags: mandalay
Saturday, 25 Apr 2009 | Views [3428] | Comments [3]
To begin our blog of our trip to Burma, our decision to go there was based on some conditions we set ourselves. We decided to go there only as responsible travellers not package tourists. We intended to stay in small family run guest houses only ... Read more >
Tags: yangon
