Chatrium Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)

Birmania es un pais que sembla que orbiti en una altra dimensio, a on el temps discorri mes lentament i la gent visqui molt menys exposada a la comercialitzacio i al ritme estressant de la modernitat. No es d'estranyar ja que el pais viu sotmes en una dictadura des de fa mes de 50 anys i al bloqueig internacional des de fa mes d'una decada. Es un pais a on no cal anar a visitar poblets remots per veure tradicions ancestrals. Encara avui en dia a la capital es ...

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Well after spending 3 1/2 weeks in Myanmar..........i'm really gonna struggle to write this blog .............we had so many amazing, mindblowing , jawdropping experiences and met too many amazing people that i dont know where the hell to start.

In fact to even start to describe our time there using my limited vocabulary skills is a pointless excercise................my feeling about the country has ...

... If I buy them, then they get to eat, but I also encourage their parents to do it more often. If i don't buy them, they don't get to eat, but hopefully they'll learn to do something else more productive than begging. By the way, there's a place to keep your shoes for a donation by the entrance, so you needn't even bother with these kids at all. Or maybe you do. We used a tour guide (6,000 kyatt) to show us around the pagoda. We didn't ...

... were entranced by the stickers we gave them. During the one hour ride back to HeHo airport we saw farmers, labourers, construction workers, large trucks, bicycles and motorbikes (very few helmets). Our driver was a bit timid, but we survived the traffic and the winding roads. It took us five minutes to check in to our flight and go through security. We had to wait 1 1/2 hours for the flight. The plane was a bit older (they all have been), but it stayed in the air ...

... hotel. Bill selected another one from our book and we were reluctantly taken there. Mr Zew was not pleased that we are not going to use his travel service, but went on his way. We stayed at the Ocean Pearl Inn. There is no ocean near by and it is not a pearl, but what can you expect for $15? Our room was relatively clean, has a/c and a private bath. We had to look past the mould though.... We walked to the downtown area and chose a restaurant for lunch. Bill loved ...

... much they liked western women and they wanted to know if we wanted to go for drinks after we got back to land. They said they would take us to dinner. What a joke. What, do they think we’re idiots? They spent more time talking about that then looking for fish. I don’t think they even KNEW where there was good snorkeling. It was just really weird,” she said.

“Oh,” I said. “What time do you guys want to go to dinner?”

... program of rape. Soldiers are ordered to rape indigenous women in the eastern part of the country, as a systematic and widespread attempt to dilute the ethnicity of these populations. In stark contrast to this gruesome background, the actual holiday aspects of the trip were nice: beautiful pagodas (most of which we did not actually enter because the entrance fee supports the government), delicious local food, colorful traditional dancing and music, etc. We ...

... t really dropped since the cyclone. Still about US$35 for 50KG. The rates in the black market is slightly better. I used to get Ky1200 for every US$1. Now I get Ky1260. But of course, if we go to a licensed money changer, it could only be Ky850 for every US$1. And if your USD is in smaller denomination, the value drops. The taxi we took just now is actually imported from Singapore. How cool is that ...

... abholen koennen.Gleich danach haben wir unseren Flug fuer den 23.06. gebucht. Da der Flug frueh morgens um 7 Uhr war haben wir beschlossen die vorherige nacht auf dem Flughafen zu campen.Die Klimaanlage war aber so eisekalt und die Sitze unbequem das nicht grossartig an Schlafen zu denken war.Egal, irgendwie haben wir die Nacht aber doch ueberstanden und sind ca.8:30 Uhr in Yangon gelandet. Noch im Flughafen haben wir jemanden stehen sehen mit dem Schild"Motherland Inn". Das war das ...

... Yangonians) and it was a great experience. There are about five artists who display here including two we met and they are a very talented bunch. We leafed through their work for almost an hour and say countless number of pieces we'd love to have. Unfortunately most were of a huge scope and far beyond the transport capabilities of Jeff's parents' (George and Brenda) suitcases. The work was exceptional. It's good to see that despite Myanmar's many issues there are some serious artists ...