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- Yangon (Rangoon)
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- kyat (MMK)
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- 41,994,678
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Myanmar
Travel Blogs from Myanmar
Another Big Buddha
This is a top pick! ... that runs parallel to the main road. We found a bar offering food and 5 beers for the price of 4. In keeping with Myanmar tradition, we ordered some basic meals but the young waiter kept bringing us out other small dishes to try! He seemed very excited ...
Travelling back in time!
This is a top pick! ... , might as we try it all! Dave wasn't aware he ordered liver, so I made him eat that one!! Tasty food, I'm enjoying this Myanmar cooking!! At the same place we needed to use the bathroom. So Dave went first and came back smiling?! I was pointed towards ...
Quotidien Rhythms
... , experimenting with Yoga and Burmese kick-boxing. "I had my first kick boxing class the other day with the former Myanmar kick-boxing champion. Not perhaps where I expected to find myself, and after my performance, probably not where my trainer expected ...
beautiful Burma
today i got to Myanmar, the first impression is really good, the country seems to be very unique, peoaple are really nice, i don't see many other travelers, tonight i'm taking a bus to Inle Lake where people live on the houses built over the ...
Burma - Mystic and dictatorship
Myanmar is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. The Union of Myanmar is governed by a military regime and several human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have reported on human ...
Finishing the Trek
... down with being finished, a little bit like a death. This 3-day trek was just a small journey, within a journey in Myanmar, within a journey in Asia, within a journey of life for Monica and I. Circles within circles within circles. And ...
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 ...
Burmese hip-hop in Bagan
So if you could translate "shake that ass for me, shake that ass for me" into Burmese, what would it be? If only hours listening to karaoke dvds on a bus could actually teach a language, I believe I would have attained the level of "Burmese ...
A jump to Inle Lake
After my previous post I felt like getting out of Mandalay but if you have problems with stomach and generally don't feel well, a long bus ride doesn’t really feel like a good idea. I was actually planning to take a boat to Bagan, where I would ...
A Visit To Chauktatyi Reclining Buddha Pagoda
The next destination we visited was the Chauktatyi Reclining Buddha Pagoda. This is a relatively old temple, being constructed towards the end of 1890's, it is more than a hundred years old now. The statue of Lord Buddha is magnificent with great ...
Kirjoista ja ruuasta
Yritimme asken tehda kirjabisneksia, mutta ei oikein onnistunut. Kasittamattoman ahneiksi taalla kayneet monet kauppiaat! Sita se kapitalismi teettaa..Kun rahan makuun paasee, sita pitaa saada lisaa ja lisaa. Pari paivaa sitten vaihdoimme yhdessa ...
Jumping cats and water lilies
We moved on for two days to another, justly, popular tourist site in the south of Shan State on Inle Lake. We stayed in a cottage on stilts, surrounded by floating gardens, fields of water lilies and yet more magical dawns and dusks over the Shan hills. ...
Go Temples Go
Tim was sick and had the chills at night so we all had a lousy sleep. Still it was up at 4:45 to catch our Air Bagan flight to Bagan. Flying Air Bagan is like taking a bus back home. You walk to the counter, give them your paper tickets (no passport ...
Burman turismista
Nopean yhteyden kunniaksi lisailin Pallontallaajille kirjoittamani tekstit tanne, osan vanhan kirjoituksen jatkoksi. Monet Kaakkois-Aasian reissaajat ovat huolissaan, etta Burmasta on tulossa seuvaava Thaimaa, yhta turisoitunut. He ovat nahneet hyvin ...
Last Day In Yangon
... least the second or third time. More fun than hassle. I didn't buy anything, as I don't want to be carrying more around Myanmar, and I'll be back in Yangon for my flight to Bangkok and so have another chance to buy you all some schlocky souvenirs ...
Day 130 Inle Lake
... stand a local favourite and had a delicious tahli at a Nepalese restaurant with a our taxi friend. It was then back to the hotel, the power's gone out twice already. Myanmar certainly is an experience! Is not designed to ride bikes, clumsy fool! Claire ...
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 ...
Yangon
... pretty bad poverty in many parts of the world, particularly Africa, but this was a different kind of feeling that I felt in Myanmar. It was a feeling of repression, a feeling of being in the middle of a place where its people are completely ...
Beautiful Inle
16 th Feb. We arrived at Bagan airport wondering why we were rushing to leave Bagan. I Knew we were making a mistake in leaving so early and I was regretting it already. There was so much more to see. Never mind these mistakes happen. We ...
A Visit To Scott Market....Bargainers Heaven
... still commonly called as Scott Market by the tourists is a major bazaar located in Pabedan Township in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. Known for its collonial architecture and cobblestone streets, the market is a major tourist destination, dominated by antique ...
On the Lake
... the next best thing to hitting us on the head with a stick and taking the money from us. The other unfriendly "person" in Myanmar is the government, who also doesn't miss an opportunity to extract as much money as possible from us for as little service ...
Heading HOME.
I was a bit concerned about the last night bus because instead of the usual 10-13 USD, it cost only 3,5$. There was also a German guy that I had met already in Moulmein, taking the same bus and we really feared that the bus is going to be even much worse ...
notes from Burma
... the new 'tracts' have tile. Buy stock in American Standard. They are modernizing the world. They even make the best squat toilets. For all the trade problems there may be with Myanmar (are there problems?) American Standard doesn't seem to be ...
A blast from the past!
... as so far we had only see t-shirts with Suu Kyi's face, but no real excitement. In the end, I really enjoyed Myanmar (Burma). The people were very friendly, always smiling and waving hello as we squeezed along the busy pavements. The street stalls were ...
Bagan
After we arrived we wandered around the town where we were staying, Nyaungu. The streets were flooded here, the only way through was to swim or catch a boat. We decided on a boat, but were splashed so much by the locals we may as well have gone ...
A week in Inle Lake
Our journey to Inle Lake was almost as eventful as our week long stay there (perhaps a slight exaggeration but it was fun anyway). At 5am, in Bagan in the dark, we were picked up in this rickety old bus dating from the 60's/70's, covered in Japanese ...
Día 7 y 8. Mingun ,Sagaing y Pyin oo lwin..
... cerca de la frontera con China y es un importante centro económico para el intercambio de materias primas. Esta ciudad cuando Myanmar pertenecía a la colonia Británica, era la ciudad de vacaciones, debido a que al estar en las montañas tiene un ...
