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Kyaikto Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kyaikto, Myanmar
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Burmese Days
This is a top pick! ... , 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Golden Rock pagoda
... forgotten. Ah well. Getting into town at around midday, we quickly check into our guesthouse. Did I mention there were no hostels in Myanmar? After some good noodle soup, we go to the truck station and take a local truck to the base of Mt Kyaiktiyo. It ...
Kyaikhtio
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 ...
A hell of a day at Golden Rock
We had to pick between Mount Popa and Golden Rock due to time restrictions on our quick trip round Myanmar. We decided on Golden Rock but would it be the right decision?? We got to the base of Mount Kyaikhto, a town called Kinpun, after a ...
Hiking up the golden rock
... then after 2 minutes everybody wanted to take a picture. It's funny that even though there are already so many tourists in Myanmar, people still stare at you, want to hold hands and have a picture with you. People are sooo happy when they see ...
Bago et le rocher d'or
14h de bus encore une fois et nous voilà arrivés à Bago dans le but de voir le fameux rocher d'or ! Après s’être remis du voyage nous avons loué notre premier scooteur en Birmanie pour faire le tour de la ville et quelques bouddha géants. ...
Mountain View Resort - lunch
Just over 30 minutes is all that these caves needed. A long way. Back aboard our yellow bus and Golden Rock here we come. First an hour's lunch stop back at the Mountain View Resort again. For me this time it was fried vegetables and chicken plus an ...
What a shame.
Caught bus to Kinpun from where you can either trek uphill to see the Golden Rock on Kyaikhtiyo 'Mountain' or alternatively be lazy and get a truck/taxi up (nearly everybody does this both ways even the Burmese visitors/pilgrims). Checked into the ...
House of Fog and Rain
... , 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 ...
Sunrise at Golden Rock
Throughout the night I could hear people movement outside and when I got up before 6 am for the sun rise there was already a steady stream of local people walking back down in pitch darkness carrying their bedding. The hermits or old men in their dark ...
Goldene Felsen, goldene Zeiten
Kyaikhtyo Mit dem Bus, dann auf Holzbalken auf einer LKW Ladefläche und die letzten Dreihundert Höhenmeter per pedes ging es hinauf nach Kyaikhtyo. Ein großer runder Felsen, der über dem Abgrund "schwebt". Natürlich ist er auf sagenumwobene Art und ...
HIGHLIGHTS Thurs 26 Dec: Mawlamyine to Golden Rock
... stop was back at the Mountain View Resort. Then at the jumping off point to Golden Rock at Kinpun, just out from the town of Kyaikto, we were lucky being a group had a truck of just 16 + 1 all to ourselves. The locals were not so fortunate. The last bit ...
Golden sunset from Golden Rock
Finally just before 3 pm we made it to our jumping off point to Golden Rock at Kinpun, 6 miles away from the town of Kyaikto. Again health and safety would be having another fit seeing how many people could be crammed into the back of the trucks. Being a ...
Le rocher d'or, enfin de bambou
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 ...
The long road - Bagan to Golden Rock
We left Bagan on the night bus, and didn’t stop until 1 in the morning. We were on the new road again though so the going was smooth! The drivers had locked the bus when we stopped and gone to get some food, leaving everyone sitting on the ...
Goldener Felsen / Golden Rock
... 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 ...
Golden Rock
... to hop on one of the first pickup trucks, leaving around 6 am. We were ready. Laura had even bought a longi, the traditional Myanmar garb resembling a sturdier sarong and worn by both men and women here. Up on the mountain, women were not allowed to wear ...
Roller Coaster ride to Golden Rock (Kyaiktiyo)
... people! 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 ...
Defying all laws of physics
... , 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 ...
Golden Rock
... . 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 ...
Home of the Golden Rock
... we only 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 ...
Golden Rock, religious Crack!
Inle to Golden Rock via Bago. Getting out of Inle turned out to be trickier than I'd envisioned. In theory it should've been simple. After spending a pleasant morning Bicycling around the Lake, even stopping at a winery for a little Wine tasting ...
Le rocher d'Or
Hello! Apres avoir passé 2 jours à Yangon, nous avons pris la route pour l'est, 5hrs de bus plus tard, nous arrivions dans cette petite ville de Kyaikpi pour voir le rocher d'Or, quasiment en equilibre sur le rocher. Malheureusement, il etait en ...
The Golden rock
We found a room easily which had a table and chairs alongside two double beds and a hot shower bathroom. By the time we had lunch ( another oily curry - we hadn't learnt) it was 3pm so the rest of the day we wandered round the town, chilled in the ...
Kyaik Hti Yoe Trip (with my Love )
December (7) . That day I'm can't forget in my memory because this is the first trip with my girlfriend. so happy ... ...
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