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Mawlamyine Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mawlamyine, Myanmar
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Down in the South
... and a good cycling tour For the confusion of the Russians (or anybody else) the third largest city in Myanmar is known by the three names Mawlamyaing, Mawlamyine and Moulmein. To me it was not apparent which one is the current name as locals seemed to ...
Paauk Meditation Centre
Time to reflect and these ladies at the Paauk Meditation Centre (established 1935) certainly have plenty of time to simply do this. When I first saw them sitting still under their nets, it reminded me of the food at home with the net cover but this was ...
HIGHLIGHTS Tues 25 Dec: Rubber bands, Meditation
After an hour long boat trip to Bilu island, visited different villages making bamboo hats, wooden pipe for smoking and pens where boys will be boys and were quite content playing with an old coconut palm leaf, saw raw rubber being rolled out, rubber ...
Bamboo Hat > Pipe > Rubber Band > Walking Stick
... Cuenca, Ecuador. The day started with a trip to the Mon island of Bilu Kyun (Orge Island). An hour's boat ride across from Mawlamyine to the 75 villages on this island. We wondered why there were lifejackets in our yellow bus. Answer … we needed to ...
Descente vers le sud
Après 24h de trajet (7h de bus, 7h d'attente et re-10h de bus), arrivée finalement à Mawlamyine, au sud de la Birmanie. Pour se reposer on s'offre un bel hôtel, le luxe (à 30$, ca reste raisonnable quand même!) pour 4 jours! L'endroit est ...
Golden rocks, ogres and speeches
... est passé. Ils étaient vraiment fiers qu’une Birmane puisse être aussi connue et qu’elle puisse diriger le Myanmar à l’avenir. Our first stop after Yangon was Kyaitiko, where there is a famous golden boulder on a ...
HIGHLIGHTS Mon 24 Dec: All day drive to Mawlamyine
... day of Explore's 3 week trip through Myanmar. An 8 am departure for the 300 km trip to the former capital of British Burma Mawlamyine also known as Moulmein. The Taukkyan War Cemetery. During WWII 27,000 died and 6,374 soldiers are buried here. It was to ...
Going on a detour south
... I asked already more than enough time and energy of A Shin M. This man talks to us and tells us we can ride with him to Mawlamyine, a place south of Pha-An. In the area is also some great things to see. After asking him several times and telling him it ...
Sunset from Kyaik Than Lan Paya - Mawlamyine
... to town first up was the 100 year old Seindon Mibaya Kyaung monastery where King Mindon Min's queen Seindon sought refuge after Myanmar’s last monarch King Thibaw min took power. I hate to think of the repairs and maintenance that is needed to ...
Sleepy little big town
Mawlamyine - or what I call Moulmein (and a few thousand others) is a very sleepy little big town. I suppose this is also because we got here as the sun was setting. It's the typical riverside town you'll expect in SEAsia. Superb vista of the river ...
Drive to Mawlamyine
... . After a short stop to see elephants ambling along the side of the road we made it at 5 pm to Mawlamyine and Cinderella Hotel with its shocking purple colour scheme. I am sure that we will be in more shocking ...
Planes, Trains and 1960's automobiles
... who have missed the last couple, welcome back and great you have ya! Anyway so now we are in a rather remote area called Mawlamyine which is around a 10 hour train trip from a placed called Yangon, which is only a 90 minute flight from Bangkok (and is ...
Southern Myanmar, hanging out at a monastery
... up with seven or eight suspicious bites on her leg, bedbugs? We moved to a much larger room and had a better sleep. Mawlamyine is the 3rd largest city in Burma, yet it was devoid of tourists and Westerners. Walking around town we were constantly ...
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Dernier jour a Mawlameyine
Dernier jour ic avanbt de prendre un bus de nuit pour retourner sur Yangon et filer au nord a Mandalay. Les qq jours ici etait vraiment chouette, nous avons fait une ballade sur une ile dans le coin puis nous sommes alles a un monastere Buddhistes et ...
Mawlamyine, Myanmar (Moulmein)
Took a local bus back to Moulmein. The bus ride was great with wonderful countryside views. Once back in Moulmein I decided to return to Breeze Rest House and this time I had a room for $12.00 a night (I think or it might have been 15$!!) on ...
Mawlamyine to Hpa-An
... eat it, you probably don't want to eat it neither. This was the case at all the restaurants close to the hotel. True to Myanmar culture, they will do their best to try and help you out. So, as we are trying to see if there is anything they can ...
Mawlamyine (Moulmein), Myanmar
Yet another bus ride and this time it is to Mawlamyine (all the foreigners pronounce it Moulmein). Luckily people were looking out for me once again!!! I don't think the bus I was on actually had a stop in Moulmein. At ...
Stopover
Mawlamyine was pretty much a stopover for us before getting a boat to do whats know as the most scenic boat journey in Myanmar. Once at mawlamyine we didn't have a clue where we were and no one knew the guesthouse so we took a moto to the market and found ...
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Mawlamyine
... the two meditation centres was very special and had a lovely meditation at the women's centre. The size of the buddha's stupas, payas in Myanmar are really incredible. Hard to imagine a reclining buddha measuring 170m in lenght but here it is. ...
Mawlamyine, boat and Hpa An in one day
After an overnight bus we arrived in Mawlamyine early in the morning. Since the boat to Hpa-An is only twice every week and today is the day it runs we only spent the morning in Mawlamyine and we later took the boat in a scenic trip to up to Hpa ...
Trains and boats and plains
... Strand, that helped support the town’s elderly (appropriate, I thought, that I should attend!!). Saturday 26th November 2011 – Mawlamyine After a breakfast enhanced by a talk on the merits of Buddhism by the owner, I made my way to the ...
Mawlamyine Highlights
... in teh early 1800's. They would not look out of place in Mossley Hill and still in use, by Baptists, Catholics and Prodastants.Left Mawlamyine but not before meeting my FB friend Mie Mei, 23 year old who friended me on FB, had an interesting evening in ...
Meandering down Mawlamyine Way
... The rest of the staff try to help whenever they can. Our first day we took off for Thanbyuzayat, some 40 miles from Mawlamyine. We boarded a local 'bus', the usual small truck with planks down both sides of the inside tray (builder's truck). ...
rong see sõitis
Kell viis on ikka veel pime, akna taga tilgub midagi. Hotellimehed on pisut segaduses, arutavad omavahel võimalikke rongi väljumisaegu ja jõuavad järeldusele, et rong läks juba ära. Kell viis läks. Võimalik, aga peab minema veel ronge. 2000 kyati ...
One BIG Buddha
Today we left the city to travel to the BIG Buddha. Burke, marianna, the Australian couple, burke and I took an hour tuk-tuk ride to a 600ft reclining Buddha. Along the drive we saw many military bases off the road. Once we arrived to the gate of the ...
The pepper land and rubber trees,
Mawlamyaing.., Among Burmese Guys we said woman from there is like a big shrimp of their shape of body and their complexion is so smooth and yellowish.I love it.May be woman like sweet eating sea shrimp.Wana eat?? From Yangon to there Mawlamyaing is ...
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