Chatrium Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)

... English is very good from having attending a Bible college and being taught in English) we embark to our point of departure. We walked back to the taxi which was 15 minutes or so away, and then drove for about 6 miles.<br> <br>We had to stop because Sein Thun and James had to get out of the cab, get on a motorcycle and head visit the Village Council (A.K.A. "VC"). The VC is like the village magistrate. It serves as they eyes and ears of the government so it can monitor ...

Yangon...,<br><br>There Yangon have 3 name in past,The first was Dagon...,in Monarch era,The king of our hero name is A laung Pa ya,before his period Yangon is fisher man camp,and He fought to Mon nationality and he rower this is the land to end of all strife,mean all of enemies fail,And he names Dagon to Yangon.How should we proud of it.<br>And time maching get running ...

... information (and pictures!) will follow. <br><br>As an extra, some impressions and tips from Yangon: <br>- Yangon cannot be regarded as a pretty city, but is definitely lively, with kids and teenagers playing with a ball in the streets, people selling whatever you can imagine and bars playing rock songs in their burmese. People are kind and helpful and, although they do stop you in the street asking offering you services, they are much less insistent than in other countries, and leave you ...

... clothe that they wear instead of trousers, they chew betel nut a sort of drug that makes them stay awake and makes their teeth red, or women wearing thanakha some sort of sandalwood powder used to protect their skin from the sun and reduce wrinkles. For them evidently this is just pure routine. The surprising to them is to spot a tourist walking on the streets of one of their cities. They react as if they met someone from another planet. People reminds me a ...

... a bad situation....in a month she has to leave her currently rented house but she doesn't have enough money to build a new house on her designated plot of land....as a single mother of 7 you can imagine how stressful a situation this is. I'd had such a lovely night with her and after she safely dropped me home and refusied any money for the food we said goodnight. She was so sweet and the next night she showed up to my guest house with gifts of bangles and other lacquerwear (the industry in ...

... buses, functional and dysfunctional buses, in different states of repair, stores with fronts fully open to the outside selling little things for bus trips. He brings us to this one bus operator (and there were quite a few of them-or so i suppose that's what the other places were). It was located on the side of this strip-mall thing, and the guys took our bags, and brought us over to their place. They asked us where we were going and ...

... done before, wonder where this info goes?). The Paya is fairly plain, the seated Buddha is very large and beautiful. There are a few other Buddha statues, but no other separate buildings. It is a quieter, smaller Paya. We did see 5 small female monks praying to one Buddhas. They are so cute! We took a cab back to our inn. Again, this driver got lost too. But, we made it all in one piece. I had a short nap and we headed to the ...

... he wanted me to say he got the wrong money, so that I would notice that, instead of him accusing me and getting myself defensive. And I checked again, both my 100 dollar bills were gone, my 1 dollar bills still there. Jeeze, I'm so happy that for once in my life I held my tongue! Not much more to tell after that. We walked around the Sule pagoda and got some delicious street food. Now we just need to figure out a good way to get back to the hostel without walking any more!

... for her - sorry Sarah I gave it away as I thought that a local would find better use for thankakha than yourself. We went for a walk around his neighborhood and then we headed back for lunch. The meal was amazing, although as usual far too much than humanly possible to eat. It was a lovely afternoon and even after many attempts they would not accept any cash from me the food. It still amazes me how generous Burmese people are considering how poor they are. Sien ...

... people asked us where we were from and wanted to stop and talk with us. They told us about their lives, their families, how poorly their business had been doing, how much they needed more tourists and a change in governance. We made a number of Burmese friends in every town we visited. It was shocking at first to us how well literally everyone spoke English: we had expected that because there weren't many tourists, and because English had been banned in schools for ...