Country Info
- Yangon (Rangoon)
- Capital
- kyat (MMK)
- Currency
- 41,994,678
- Population
- MM
- Country Code
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Myanmar
Travel Blogs from Myanmar
Kalaw - Sixteen Seats and Thirty People
The knock on the door was at 3:30am and thanks to a fitful night's nap, I was ready and waiting for it. We were handed a bag of moldy bread and sorta-boiled eggs, promising a delicious breakfast which would surely keep us full for our 10 hour bus ride ...
Min Gelaber
... Rechner. Das zweite ist ganz OK, nur es gibt kein Java, da lassen sich die Bilder nur schwer hier hochladen. Java scheint auch nicht nach Myanmar exportierbar zu sein - besser klappts erst, wenn ich mit dem eigenen Rechner online gehen kann. ...
Temples and Tummy Trouble
Time to move on to Bagan, and not on a plane, thankfully! We were booked onto the 'fast boat' from Mandalay, along with all the other tourists. Sorry to labour the point, but I would have loved to have been on the 'slow boat' as it's the ...
Return to the capitol by train
All of us from the jeep tour of Pagan took the comfortable train back to Rangoon. We shared a couple of rooms at a budget hotel and had a meal together. Burmese food is not one of the notable cuisines of the world. One of the young girls was a very ...
Boarder Crossing - Burma
Yesterday what a day! Di's 30 day visa is due to expire so we had to do a border crossing to renew it. We got ourselves on a day trip to Burma. Picked up 7.30 nice one on a hangover we slept on the bus until we reached some hot springs around 9am then ...
Relax
Today was sleep in and relax day. So we got up at 7. I finally am cured of my runs - although it took a while, it was very manageable. I joined in for the usual good breakfast of juice, tea, toast, eggs and fruit. Then I spent an hour on the internet- an ...
Myanmar Part 1
... and monkey jelly beans Helped take care of a kid who got beat by a policeman Used my first hole in the ground With that said Myanmar is the most amazing country I have ever been to. I seriously had the most amazing 5 days of my life. Not only did I ...
A Stay in Pyay
... room, and was a far cry from the standard toast, egg and jam western breakfast offered by almost every other hotel in Myanmar. After breakfast we walked out towards the market area and found a watch shop where we could change money. We changed $50 at ...
A Rainy Day To Start With From Yangon
Today, the plan would be to head to Thanlyin, a drive that would take approximately two hours from the city. I shall write more about Thanlyin in the next entry. This shall be just a brief entry as it would be just covering on the early morning ...
Exploring The Local Folk Life In Syriam
... city into a oil refinery centre of the country in the early 20th century to process the oil shipped from Central Myanmar. The refinery was destroyed during World War II. The Thanlyin refinery was rebuilt in 1957 and underwent expansion in 1979 with ...
Yele Pagoda...Buddha's Hair Relic Island Temple
... reality in Burma. The temple is really beautiful and is considered as one of the most important Buddhist Temples in Myanmar, mainly, due to it being a hair relic temple. Two strands of Buddhas hair are burried right under the ...
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, ...
"Burma is a warzone..."
... poiketen siis Burmassa voi talla hetkella turisti matkustaa maateitsekkin(olimme kuulleet sotilaiden pystyttamista "roadblockeista" joilla rajoitetaan liikkumista) eika vain lentamalla kaupungista toiseen.. From Myanmar with love.. ...
Rangon, Myanmar
... Old Glory; the US Embassy. Accross the street, a bill board with the slogan I would see in all Myanmar cities: "The People's Desire": · Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views · ...
The Infamous Snake Pagoda Of Bago
This is a simple yet famous monastry in Bago, not a very grand one with multiple pagodas but simple and plain. Legend has it that around 26 years ago, the caretaker of this pagoda, a buddhist monk had a dream one night and in that dream, a serpent came ...
Day 133 Bagan
... sell you stuff outside- sometimes very dramatically! A few times in the more famous temples, locals who had presumabbly come from rural Myanmar to visit Bagan, took pictures of us because we are white. This is a strange experience, some did it slighly and ...
BAGAN - A temple lovers playgound!!!!
I spent Christmas of 2006 in Bagan, Burma. I rented an oversized bicycle with a basket and rode it around the 42 square kilometer temple complex of Bagan, which is peppered with a few thousand temples that are about a thousand years old. ...
Introduction to Yangon
... to live chickens. Then back for a nap and dinner. I decided to have Mohinga, the national dish of Myanmar. I had read that Mouhinga is Burma's bouillabaisse, a rich and pungent fish broth with rice noodles. My experience was ...
Banks of the Ayeyarwaddy
Met up with Sai Moon, a guide who I'd first met on Trip Advisor. Great to finally put a face to an email address. He introduced us to Tun Tun who was going to be our guide for the next two days. We started at the Shwe Nandaw Kyaung monastary which is ...
Day off and Sunset at Pyathada
Today we had put aside as a day off as we need to get up early to take our balloon flight the next morning. The day consisted of having breakfast at the guesthouse, walking down the road to use the internet, walking back up the road to have lunch. ...
The Orient Express
... had stayed with us at the the Aquarius Inn. Heide said good-bye to us here at this connecting point, the new capital of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw, where she planned to spend a couple of days and find an easier way of getting to Yangon. So we were ...
bussissa istumista ja vekkulatalo
Burma on yllatyksia taynna! Tama blogini ei ole auennut muutamaan paivaan ja olen tallentanut tekstejani pallontallaajille. Nyt taas mikaan muu sivu ei auennut kuin tama blogini. Jopa gmaili ei toimi, vaikka sinne on yleensa paassyt helpoimmin, kun on ...
Kukkula kiipeilya ja ennustaja-seta
Mandalay, Burma. Majapaikka:Garden hotel Joka toinen kerta blogini on kielletty ja sitten taas sallittu. Olimme menossa nettipaikkaan, jossa se on sallittu, mutta ovessa olevista aukioloajoista 8am-10pm huolimatta, putiikki oli viela 9 suljettu. ...
Day 135 Yangon
... an hour before catching a taxi to the city's most famous sight- Shwedagon Paya. Shewdagon Paya is the most famous Buddhist temple in Myanmar and is very shiny and very impressive. It is not really one temple, but about 50 crammed into about an area about ...
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 ...
