Mandalay
Travel Blogs from Mandalay, Myanmar
The Road to Mandalay
... itinerary would stare blankly when I'd say, "And then I'll fly from Chiang Mai to Mandalay." They'd inevitably ask, "Where's Mandalay? In Myanmar? Where's that?" A traveler in Lao actually asked me, "Why go there?" Keeping in mind that most people don't ...
...the road to Mandalay.... not on your Nellie...
... very low prices. The next morning we set off for a whistle stop tour of several ancient capitals of Myanmar. We started at Amarapura, just outside Mandalay . On the way we stopped at an embroidery workshop where exquisite (if not to our taste) beaded ...
Northern Loop Trip
... After a chat with Immigration, I was pointed to the jeep option. From Bhamo, I travelled by boat down the Irrawaddy River to Mandalay. This was a beautiful trip - argued as the most beautiful in Burma. The trip took 4 days & 3 nights & I slept on ...
Chapter 31: Me and Myanmar, Part 1
... for a military checkpoint, but they didn't even look at our passports as they waved us along. At 8am we finally arrived in Mandalay. Yoshi and I took a taxi downtown, checked out a few hotels, and settled on the Nylon Hotel, which had air-con, a ...
Mediocre to Majestic Mandalay
... even for another day was not an option so we opted to try our chances. Every traveller I've met said that Mandalay was the worst of Myanmar and that the other environs were far more apealing. I hope that they're right and longed already for another ...
Mandalay and the Ancient Cities
... . Motorbikes are not allowed in Yangon incidently, only govermnent people can use them there and I have no idea why. On first impressions, Mandalay seems nicer than Yangon but after a few days you realise that it is a bit of a hole. Electricity is cut off ...
Burmese Days
... . I was glad that I'd already kicked back a few gulps of my rice wine whiskey however before I read the page in Mandalay Air's inflight magazine celebrating their tenth year anniversary. It stated that in the past ten years it hasn't always been smooth ...
Mandalay, Mingun+Pwin Oo Lwin
... really nice Swedish guy, Rob, and we ended up travelling together for the next week or so. We started off with a trip in Mandalay to see the nightly performance by the Moustache Brothers, a group of 2 brothers and a friend who are the most famous ...
How clean is your colon?
... teak bridge, U Bein Bridge, for sunset which was great. This bridge is the one on the cover of the Lonely Planet Myanmar book and spans 1300 yards, the longest teak bridge in the world and consists of 1000 teak posts emerging from the river. ...
My My it's Mandalay
... to Bangers. She'd meet her boyfriend, recover and then try again in the land of food poisoning, good luck. My time in Mandalay wasn't overly exciting. It'd say three great things happened here. 1) Shane introduced me to Passion Fruit. My goodness it's ...
Non-stop Mandalay
... and managed to spend a number of hours up there. We also visited one of the four ancient capitals that surround Mandalay, Mingun. We'd talked to a number of other people that had already been that described it as "Nothing Special". This became a bit ...
WARNING - EXTREME TRAVELLING
... of course they haven't seen contact lenses before. The day consisted of visiting sites around the old palace, stupas, golden Buddhas and Mandalay Hill with its great views across the city. The tour was going great we visited places not mentioned in the ...
Up the road to Mandalay without a paddle
... -> Fields of temples at Bagan The (Myanmar) People's Desire This also comes from The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, although I noticed it on billboards around Mandalay as well. I thought I got a picture of one but it ain't in the files so obviously ...
Mandalay
... the old colonial buildings left. I don't think we've seen that many plasma TVs for sale in any part of Myanmar. The best thing about Mandalay was the cheap internet access, 500 Kyat / min. (Still not cheaper than China though). Can't escape ...
On the road to Mandalay
... 3 ancient cities. We normally don't do this, but, time was not on our side, and this was the quickest way to get around. Mandalay City was great. Little tea shops everywhere and the only place to eat food was off of the street. US0.45c for 2 people. This ...
An unlikely venue
... caught. After managing to shake him off I was able to enjoy a nice sunset behind the mountains overlooking the Ayeryawaddy River, downtown Mandalay and the huge palace complex. Olwyn and an Israeli guy we met agreed to splash out and join us in getting a ...
A lakes, a hike and a city
... open sewer of a city with warm, friendly people who deserved to live somewhere nicer. I had a few days riding a trishaw around the city, walking up Mandalay Hill & visiting some towns outside of the city which contained a number of historical ...
An exotic ring but not so exotic feel
... of it was very dirty and had little character. Unable to book a ticket for Hsipaw, Susan, Guy and myself found ourselves stranded in Mandalay for another day. Rather than spend it in the city, where we felt there was very little to do, we decided to get ...
For Hylton Cooke, our Grandad
... the hill, climb it and get back to check out at midday. What we didn't realise, hang on, what I didn't realise was how enormous Mandalay is. The city is built around the Golden Palace and old city walls. Each side of the wall is around 2 kms in length. ...
Myamar again
... we unexpectedly had this chance to have a better look at Burma and the places we didn't have time to visit before. We headed to Mandalay strait away to pickup where we left off. The plan this time was to travel to the most northern parts that we were ...
Mandalay and the bartering Burmese Shri Lankan
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 ...
Saiging Hill, Blue Taxi's and U Beins Bridge
Today was the day to see some sites, after another nice breakfast we set of in the 'Blue Taxi' These things are pretty much the Mazda equivalent of a Mighty Boy and have two bench seats along the back, cheap to get around in and better than by ...
monks city
i'm in Mandalay, the reason people come here is to visit the small towns outside the city where you can enter some monasteries... as you can see on the pics there are many monks living here, the city is full of monks, they are very friendly, ...
Banks of the Ayeyarwaddy
... two days. We started at the Shwe Nandaw Kyaung monastary which is the only remaining structure from the old royal palace. Then drove up Mandalay Hill. Damned site easier in a car I have to say but the view somehow isn't worth it. See it if you have ...
Kukkula kiipeilya ja ennustaja-seta
... puolivalissa ja samalla viimeinen kuninkaallinen paakaupunki. Siita muistona taalla on jaljella lukuisia palatseja, etenkin keskustan valtava Mandalay palatsi on vaikuttava ilmestys (Emme ole viela kayneet siella. Yritamme livahtaa sinne tanaan, silla ...
Mandalay
... 're "special") to get off the bus and then they check their IDs. A good way of controlling everybody's movements. We arrive in Mandalay. It is a very dusty city with an ubiquitous exhaust smell that makes you dream of clean air. We find an ok hotel and ...
Teahouses, Biker bars and the Moustache Brothers
... took another to get to a teahouse. For Myanmar we had a second guidebook called To Myanmar with Love which strongly recommended Mandalay's teahouses. And we concur! Great food, tea and wonderful atmosphere. After the ...
Mandalay
... transported us back to a time when Myanmar was resplendent with kings dripping in gold and when elephants walked the streets;. Mandalay is surrounded by tancient cities - each one being home to royalty at some time during Myanmar's rich ...

