Mawlamyine
Travel Blogs from Mawlamyine, Myanmar
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rock bottom?!
... te bieden.." Ja ik weet er tot nu toe heel weinig van.. maar allesinds,mooie vooruitzichten voor Malaysie en Indonesie! Mijn dagen in Myanmar bevatten weinig planning nu ik beslist heb het rustig aan te doen in de Mon- en Kayin-state. Zoals vandaag, een ...
Tropical city
Mawlamyine 28.01.2011 Me and the french couple I met on the bus check into the same guesthouse in Mawlamyine (Aurora) and as we have the same itinerary we will spend a couple of days together. The first day we take a local bus to go to the ...
Limestone crags and riverine towns
... our attention. This, Thomas explained, was where the householders of the town came to pay their electricity bills. Leaving Mawlamyine behind we drove through small villages where families lived in houses built on stilts. At one such village we ...
4-point-something metre long monster...
13 May 2010 I now find myself in Mawlamyine, on the South-Eastern stretch of Myanmar, in a fiercely hot little sweat box called a room after spending a day and night in Bago. Bago didn't have a whole lot to say for itself apart from a giant ...
Hoofdstuk 2; Niels de lonely globetrotter...
De Lieven,deze ochtend, een laatste hand geschud, Geen woorden voor onze tijd samen... Misschien eens een nachtje over slapen en dan iets proberen te verklaren. Lieven!!! Go with the flow .. - 5 maanden ontdekken, genieten, grenzen verleggen.. ik heb ...
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