Eastern Yangon (Rangoon)

... Freedom From Chains) could provide $700.00 per month in funding so that all seven missionaries could be properly provided for. James told me that many times, the missionaries need to use their income to"gift" (as I said before , it's a bribe in reality) to the VC so they can preach the Gospel to the lost in their mission fields. Also, these missionaries have been serving the Lord full time for years even though they do not earn an income nowhere near what they need to provide the ...

... with traditional Myanmar food), a office supply store, clothing store and a bit more. Did I tell you the best part of the mall...? it's got air con! HIP HIP HOORAY...HIP HIP HOORAY!

You can tell that it is for the upper class and not for the regular Joe in Yangon. They have a lot of what you would see in US grocery stores and store like K-Mart. They have TV, DVD, Laptops, Clothes, ect. The electronic such as computers HDTV are expensive. However, other things like great headphones ...

... home if you want to help these believers.

In Conclusion
I'm about done for today. I will be in Yangon until Tuesday morning then then I head south of Yangon for three days. I will return on Saturday, and worship on Sunday, do the tourist thing on Monday and leave Tuesday morning to Bangkok. Hangout for the day in Bangkok with a friend or two. I will then catch my flight back to the USA early Tuesday morning (550am). So until tomorrow.

With love and peace

Alex

... for example in Bangkok – maybe because there are less of us here and everybody is interested more or less in the same destinations. And it seems that there are many solo travellers like me here in Burma so you are more likely to interact with them easily.

I’ve been in Yangon for two days now and there are some very interesting places, like the best known sight of the country: the golden dome of Shwedagon Pagoda, which was quite impressive (despite ...

... reserving the taxi to the airport. It will be another early flight. I will need to be up at 3 am to be at the airport on time for the departure.

Started the day today by doing the walking tour outlined in the Lonely Planet. I ended up at the Bogyoke Aung San Market and continued on to see a traditionnal puppet show. It was quite special as it seems that it was put on just for me as beside a Mexican puppeteer ...

... some of the shows that were put on (including a floating head!), listening to their crazy traditional music accompanying some traditional dancing, and going on some extremely scary rides....Yes Nick thought it would be good idea to go the big wheel which was massive yet was only made of wood....so when everyone got on the wood creaked and bent as if it was going to break!...then....get this....there was no motor to power it so the people operating it had to climb up to the top (of ...

... and we're thinking, "what? we're not giving money to you." So we try to "nicely" tell him no, instead of being straight forward, and that results in more delayed time, sitting in a hot, dirty taxi in the middle of nowhere. It felt like 10 minutes before he came back and offered us 1050, which we originally declined (we thought it was around 1200-1350), but were more or less coerced into taking, albeit in a friendly manner. He said ...

... driver took us to Traders Hotel instead. The staff there explained to him where we wanted to go. Thankfully we took a cab, as it was really far and we would have had a hard time finding the entrance (up a hill behind the street). At Chaukhtatgyi Paya there is a shed that covers a giant reclining Buddha. The Buddha was 58 feet high and 216 feet long. The Buddha is white with a gold robe. On the forehead is a diamond, where wisdom comes ...

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A DAY AT THE BEACH

Ngapali Beach, Myanmar

After rooting around in the back country the girls were getting itchy for a little R and R at the beach and believe it or not, Myanmar has some beautiful coastline on the Bay of Bengal.

“Paul, when are we going to the beach? What will our hotel be like? Is it on the beach? Who will pick us up at the airport? What will the food be like?” And on and on. It was time to get them out of the ...

... up on each other's latest Asian adventures. We'd been in regular contact by email for some time, so we started out pretty much on the same page. We decided to spend our time together in Bagan - an ancient area to the north with an unbelievable concentration of temples. We'd seek a suitable vehicle and driver to take us there and see Myanmar countryside in the process .



The next day Monet suggested he could fill our ...