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Bago
Travel Blogs from Bago, Myanmar
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A whizbang two and a half hours of siteseeing!
This is a top pick! ... . I would have liked to have spent more time in Bago, but with only 23 days remaining on visa I knew I had to keep moving. Bago seemed like a nice quiet town and it would have been great to explore at my own pace and fully appreciate the sites, but there ...
Bago
This is a top pick! ... interesting--anyone got a spare $225? On the way back from the payas we stopped in a roadside pub, and over some (very good) Myanmar beers and tasty BBQ'd goat on a stick, Manny taught us some good local phrases to use: Yabba dey! (no problem, ...
The Infamous Snake Pagoda Of Bago
This is a simple yet famous monastry in Bago, not a very grand one with multiple pagodas but simple and plain. Legend has it that around 26 years ago, the caretaker of this pagoda, a buddhist monk had a dream one night and in that dream, a serpent came ...
Unexpected last day of the trip
... have enough meals on the plane to allow us to have one. And within an hour, we were back in Bangkok - and back in another world. I'll write one more entry to wrap things up and tell what it felt like coming back to Bangkok after two weeks in ...
An Interesting Morning Market In Bago
... place, some of the photos I have publisehd here. After the walk in the market, we walked to the most modern restaurant here in Bago. Well, to be honest, such restaurants are almost extinct in Malaysia. But it was very nice for a change. Run by a Burmese ...
The Oldest And Largest Teaching Monastery In Burma
From the earlier town, it took another 3 hours drive to reach the town of Bago, once the Buddhist capital of the world. Here, we paid a visit to the oldest and largest teaching Buddhist monastery in Burma, in fact the world. There are more than a thousand ...
Bago - City of big dimensions
... , blauen Mazdataxi zu machen, bevor wir mit dem naechsten Bus nach Kinpun, wo wir den Goldenen Felsen ansehen moechten, weiterfahren. Bago ist die Stadt der grossen Dimensionen. Es gibt einen goldenen Stupa, der sogar mit seinen 114 Metern um 16 Meter ...
Pochi giorni e lascio Myanmar. Tristezza.
Mi riavvicino a yangon da cui purtroppo volero' di nuovo in Thailandia ( non che la Thailandia sia male, ma Nyanmar e' meglio ) e la cosa non mi fa per niente ...
Temples Of The Ancient Buddhist Empire Of Bago
... moved along some village roads and finally reached the city walls of once the greatest empire in South East Asia, the Bago empire. This was the home to the greatest Buddhist empire that spread the religion throughout this region and the rest ...
Tour in Bago
In Bago wurden wir bereits erwartet, der Receptionist unseres letzten Hotels hat bereits ein Hotel in Bago informiert, dass ein Schweizer Paar kommt! Ganz nach dem Motto, das Geld soll in die Tasche von Freunden fliessen. 2 Jungs fuhren uns einen Tag ...
Bago's Buddhas
[Blog by Curt] We had still a few days left in Myanmar, more than we really needed to see Yangon, so we decided to make one more stop before heading to the big city. A natural choice was the town of Bago, about halfway between Kinpun (Golden Rock) and ...
Buddha's by motorbike
We eased ourselves into the travel thing in Myanmar, with a short bus ride (2hr) covering about 60km to Bago. All went smoothly (so to speak), the bus left from a seemingly very random spot, and even though I think we paid a foreigner price, it was ...
Wish we'd bago-ne straight through
... by the usual touts for taxi/hotel/trishaw, etc. And as usual, we passed by as best we could. These guys are really persistent in Bago though! We had people walk or drive next to us for the entire 1km walk to where the hotels are. And again, there isn't ...
Bago: Visions of Hell in Michael Jackson
... had in so far proved more difficult. And I was alas no help whatsoever. Sorry dude... Pleasant uneventful journey from Mon State to Bago, there's a passport check at one point (which you miss out on if you take the pre-dawn pick up). Approaching Bago, the ...
The Golden Rock (Kyaiktiyo)
... It was my turn to treat Mr. Win. He picked the restaurant and what a wonderful choice. We had a great traditional and tasty Myanmar meal. Before calling it a day, we decided to reserve our bus seats for the next day - Mr. Win returning ...
Bago, Myanmar
Spent a busy morning in Bago before taking the afternoon local bus back to Yangon. visited the cheroot market where they sell the supplies to make cheroot. Then went on to visit a cheroot factory where each cigarette is rolled ...
Bago and Golden Rock
... of opportunities in his field (economics). I grabbed a beer with him in the evening while discussing political situation in Myanmar. Once tables around us got occupied, my new friend stopped the delicate topic afraid of being heard by government spies. ...
Bago, Myanmar
... and the following morning we proceeded to find a hotel and then we were off to visit the sights and there are plenty around Bago. Again, I was very happy a took the time to stop here as there are very interesting monuments, monastaries . . . ...
Trip to Moeyungi Bird Sanctuary
A 2-days trip by car, rented with driver through Pfeiffer, and very expensive, brought us to Moeyungi Bird Sanctuary, actually to a place called "Resort", which it wasn't. We were not at all excited, especially considering the cost versus service. The ...
* bago: - hotel: emperor doubles for 6$ ...
... Mandalay: 2000 K, departure 6pm, duration = 13 h. Arrival at the Highway Bus Terminal, free shuttles provided by the hotels * BAGO (3 weeks later): - Hotel: Emperor: the price of the room fell to 5$...Arrived again at 4 in the morning, they didn't ...
Thank you Mr Tout, you saved the day!
... here where 1,000+ monks live, is the largest in the country - do come and have a look when you are next in the Union of Myanmar!!! Some of those monks are cuties !!! So, if you are passing through Bago on your way north or south, get off the bus or ...
Off to Bago and Malaysia
... then I had grown a healthy hatred of buses. It was shorter then I expcted, only 11 hours. We caught another bus back to Bago and had a motorbike tour of the small town, squeezing three of us onto one small skooter. We saw some more Pagodas of ...
The town of Bago:Buddha world!.
Now here is a town that is a tourist site in itself and yet is comprised of only one main street! The upside to that is all it takes is one full day Motorbike tour to see everything that the place has to offer. As soon as we got off the bus, a helpful ...
End of Myanmar
Really exhausted!!! We took the last domestic flight from Inle Lake (Heho) to Yangon this afternoon at 16.30. Finally we changed the last days, because in Pindaya the weather was not very good, there was a special festival in Inle Lake and we were ...
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