Kyaikto, Myanmar Travel Blogs

Burmese Days
Feb 10, 2004 (4 photos)

... , which quickly became my favorite of our travels so far, a mixture of ethnicity's from SE Asia and the subcontinent, Myanmar people continued to fascinate us for our whole trip. They are incredibly religious, mostly Buddhist, but with sizable Muslim and ...

Pilgrimage to the rock
Jan 19, 2006 (10 photos)

The weather in Rangoon was surprisingly cool as I departed the White House for the Aung Mingalar bus station, close to an hour away. However what was even more surprising than the temperature was the thick fog that had blanketed the city. In more than a ...

Kyaikhtio
Oct 15, 2006 (3 photos)

Tagwache ist heute bereits vor 5 Uhr frueh! Wir besuchen den beruehmten Golden Rock, eine Pagode, welche auf einem goldenen Felsen steht. Der Weg zu diesem Pilgerort ist beschwerlich, nach 5 Stunden Busfahrt muss man auf einen Pick-up wechseln. Wie ...

House of Fog and Rain
Aug 21, 2007

... regrettably representative conditions of the current "rainy season".  Much like the last week we spent in Myanmar...... Inle Lake..... we arrived there after a journey that defied any mental preparation our imaginations had provided us.& ...

Defying all laws of physics
Sep 4, 2007 (14 photos)

... and it was harmless but annoying. The road at first was ok, but deteriorated as we got closer to our destination, this was Myanmar highway Number 1. It was full of pot holes and not sealed in parts. The bus stopped of course along the way for food ...

Mystical Inle Lake
Apr 6, 2007 (17 photos)

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the power of Buddha's hair
Apr 6, 2007 (12 photos)

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Home of the Golden Rock
Apr 6, 2008 (8 photos)

... really understand a small amount of what's going on. Still, what we do get is always interesting. Definitely Kyaikto was a nice way to round out our trip to Myanmar, and cheer us up again after a few hard going days. Back to Yangon for a bit of shopping ...

Goldener Felsen / Golden Rock
Mar 20, 2006 (6 photos)

... Rueckfahrt nach Kinpun so ein, dass wir um 12.45 Uhr den Bus nach Yangon erwischen. Golden Rock - another holy sight in Myanmar Getting up to the rock early in the morning to avoid the heat we pass the most interesting souvenir stands of our trip so ...

Le rocher d'or, enfin de bambou
Nov 26, 2009 (18 photos)

Bonjour a tous, je suis bien arrive en Birmanie ou j'ai directement pris un bus pour le petit village de Kinpun. J'etais le seul occidental durant tout le trajet ce qui fut assez drole. Arrive sur place, on me montre le bus que je dois prendre pour me ...

Roller Coaster ride to Golden Rock (Kyaiktiyo)
May 1, 2007 (5 photos)

... ! The next morning getting up earling as I am leaving Yangon with M. on the 06.00 o'clock bus, on our way to Kyaikto, or more specifically the mountain nearby. To visit Golden Rock, a huge gold-leafed boulder eleviating on the very edge of a cliff high ...

Golden Rock
Jan 30, 2007 (27 photos)

... . Am Abend gings dann mit dem Nachtbus ne Monsteretappe in den Norden, uff wiedermal "pain in the ass" hab mir eigentlich bereits in Vietnam geschwohren langen Busreisen zu vermeiden, ist aber in Myanmar anders schlicht und einfach unmoeglich.

Kyaiktiyo
Feb 17, 2008 (5 photos)

 

Golden Rock
Mar 5, 2009 (10 photos)

Early start this morning I wanted to catch the first truck up to Kyaikhtiyo (the Golden Rock). The first truck was a 6am so it was still dark when I started off. After a 45min truck ride there was a 45min walk, so the plan was to do it before the ...

Golden Rock - Kinpun
May 18, 2007

Well, if you go there, try not to go on a hazy day. It was a bit disapointing because we didn't see anything down the hill. We also got caught in a heavy rain while in the truck back to Kinpun.

Kyaikto and Kyaiktiyo
May 21, 2009 (13 photos)

This was a lovely, if hot walk we did for a day. We got up early (as was becoming the norm) and had breakfast in a restaurant beside the road.Eggs and sweet toast, with jam and sweet tea. Sugar sugar sugar.  It was a hot morning even before we ...

Golden Rock
Mar 6, 2008

We started early in the morning in Hpa-An, took a pick up track to Kinpun on which I had to ride in the roof of the truck with all the other men and arrived in Kinpun in the early after noon. Then we went up the mountain to see the Golden Rock, which is ...

May 20, 2009
May 20, 2009 (5 photos)

Kyaiktiyo
Jan 6, 2009 (9 photos)

Kyaiktiyo or known as the Golden Rock is a major pilgrimage site for Burmese (one of the most sacred sites in Myanmar). Legend has it that the big boulder that seems to balance precariously over an edge of a cliff at the top of Mt Kyaiktiyo is ...

Kyaiktiyo
Apr 30, 2007

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