Beautyland Hotel II Yangon (Rangoon)

... we were waiting for the departure. The bus was lacking air con but it wasn't that bad after all and the whisky also did its job. Like nightbuses usually, this one arrived in a bizarre time of 3AM at the bus station, which is actually farther away from the centre than the airport so taxi to the centre would actually cost more than the 9-hour bus ride. However, we found a bus going to the centre and jumped in. A good thing ...

... sometimes you feel like you are in India. People here don’t have family names – the first word of their name is the day of the week when they were born (I verified this fact many times, apparently it’s true). The men and women alike wear the bi-sexual wraparound garment called longyi, chew the betel and spit out blood red saliva to the ground; the teachers make 30 USD a month while a family needs $100 a month to live on; the only decent looking residential houses are ...

... les olles son impressionants), el menjador amb una quantitat espectacular de taules i teteres (llastima que arribi tard i ja hagin menjat, perque buit ja impressiona la sala pero plena deu ser espectacular), i finalment a la sala a on van a fer meditacio despres de fer la migdiada (meditacio que jo interrumpeixo temporalment a base de fotos).<br><br>Per acabar el guia em vol dur a veure uns budes i unes pagodes. Jo li dic que d ...

... an American into her residence (she is not supposed to have any contact with foreigners) is quite surprising. There are rumors it would be a way to keep her imprisoned (she will probably lose the "trial") and make sure next year elections are under control... Yet, Myanmar Army (half of Myanmar GDP) his currently selling land. You sell when you know change is about to occur.. Let's hope it happens.

... checking out a park, a pagode and a marketplace as well as the local life. The Paya (pagode) we went to took 1000kyats ($1) to keep our shoes for us as we wandered barefoot around it. Apparently there was also a 'donation' fee to enter the place on top of that, and these two ladies chased us down and demanded we pay. We had already had our fill so we told them we'd just leave rather than pay more money and they got soo ****** off about it. We had to leave ...

... street. Myanmar used to be colonized by the British, who named the country as Burma, after the majority ethnic group, Bamar. In fact, there are 136 different languages used in the country. Twenty years ago Burma was renamed back to Myanmar, which sounds more logical as encompasses also minority groups. There isn't much evidence present about British former rule - churches can be barely found, vast majority of people don't speak any English and almost 90% of population is of Buddhist ...

... he wouldn&#8217;t understand, hoping he would drop the subject. No such luck. Finally I said, &#8220;Why do you want to pick up foreign women anyway?&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Because they have very light skin. Burmese women have dark skin,&#8221; he said.<br><br>&#8220;Western men often like tan looking women,&#8221; I told him hoping he might give this up.<br><br>&#8220;&#8221;Dark skinned women look&#8230;dirty,&#8221; he blurted out. Well, this was a different view ...

Friday evening I went out with Joe and Debra from school. We went to a nice dinner and for drinks while listening to Martin play. Sunaree, her friend Paul, and Jen joined us. We ended up staying out a lot later than I was expecting to, but we had a good time celebrating the end of school. Saturday morning, I was up at 5:15 so Pavla and Jessica could head to the airport. We had a smooth time getting there. When we got off the plane ...

... not because of the cyclone but because the government, it seems, has something to hide about the way people there live and are treated. At certain roadblocks we were stopped and had to present our passports; if we had been traveling to closed areas, we would have been turned around. The good news is, there are still many places for tourists to visit, including the main tourists sites--Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan, and Mandalay. Additionally, for the average tourist ...