Mandalay Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Mandalay, Myanmar 2nd city is surrounded by 3 imperial cities. Sagaing, with 500 temples and 6000 monks! - big meditation place Inwa, used to be the capital for 400 years - totally preserved (wooden villages) Amarapura with its 1.2km bridge all in teak where both fishermen and monks commute at sunrise and sunset.

We are greeted at the bus station by a driver who will take us to the hotel we have selected. Tun Tun also joins us to try to sell us his tour services. The taxi this time is a small truck with a covered bed and wooden benches. There was just enough room for our bags, Bill, Tun Tun and I in the back. Bill liked the look of the room at Royal City...

I've read a book about 100 must-sees in the world, and the boat trip along the Ayeyarwady River from Mandalay to Bagan is one of the must-sees. I was full of anticipation as I boarded the local boat in the chilly morning at 5.30am and started my 15-hour boat ride down the famous river. I balanced myself carefully on wooden planks to climb on boa...

WOW - Mandalay is quite the city. I have so much to tell you all that I don't know where to even begin. Perhaps first a small statistic - Myanmar is home to approximately 65 million people and in a normal year sees about 350,000 tourists. This year that number has decreased by almost 70%. Needless to say, we aren't bumping into a lot of other tr...

Myanmari külastamine on alati vastuoluline. Võiks öelda, et isegi eetiline küsimus. Alates 1995-st aastast on Myanmari tuntud vabadusvõitleja tütar ning tunnustatuim opositsiooni liider Aung San Suu Kyi, rahvasuus tuntud ka lihtsalt The Lady, korduvalt pöördunud muu maailma poole palvega: "Külastage meid hiljem". Sellele üleskutsele on olnud tug...

Mandalay was a great city for antique shopping. It is as illegal to take Antiques out of Burma as it is to sell them. We found our favorite Antique shop on a back alley in Burmese Shri Lankan's garage. He had everything for British Swards to Hill Tribe Head dresses and 17th century monetary doors. Never mind how he got them. As I was searching t...

The Burmese love a good morning flight. I am up and about spritely once more for the Yangon Air flight from Bagan to Mandalay. The prop plane lifts off at 8.02am, and cruises at a total of 7000 feet for a full 17 minutes. We land at exactly 8.19am..... Strangely the MJ have built Manadalay Airport some 45km's from the actual city. It is possibly...

Sadly, the 'Road to Mandalay' is not quite as romantic as Kipling made out; it was a 15 hour bus journey aboard this old bus crashing and bumping along the so called higway through the night. We did, however, meet fellow travellers on board and tried to make light of the situation, despite the fact we had no sleep! Arriving in Mandalay in good s...