Mandalay Hostels - Reviews and Rates

I got to Mandalay in the afternoon. Royal GH, which seems to be far the best, was fully booked (better to book in advance), so I stayed at nearby Nylon hotel. My first impression of the city was a bit mixed. It is bigger than I expected and not at all relaxing as some resources claim. Motorcycles and bicycles are everywhere and even crossing a ...

Cheap food and internet, good ice cream, what else can you want in a big city?

We get a relatively good bus to Mandalay, except that the seat in front of us is too close for Seth's legs. They're all pretty much shorter there. We also discover our first checkpoint which is a place along the road where the army requires all locals (not tourists, we're "special") to get off the bus and then they check their IDs. A good way of...

Kipling paid it homage in a famous poem, Maugham waxed poetic over its many splendors and Orwell was stationed there as a policeman and later wrote his own love letter to the former jewel of the empire. Frank Sinatra even sang about it when Kipling's "Road to Mandalay" was set to music. The British Raj captured it and added it more or less as a ...