Garden Guest House Yangon (Rangoon)

... as a bed covering since they sleep on the floor laying on top of the mat with a mosquito net to protect all in the family at night. <br><br>As I was being introduced to the family I was surprised to learn that the lady was the wife of Brother Sein Thun. I was surprised because Sein Thun attended the training seminar that we held at the School for the Blind, in norther Yangon. We had to travel 2 hours by foot to get to the bus station. Then he had to wait several ...

... is putting pressure on the government; but I am not that optimistic, since I know with the backing of the Chinese and Indian governments, the generals can more or less ignore the outside world&#8217;s actions towards them.<br><br>So, I don&#8217;t like the city but I will remember the experience for a long time. I am leaving the city tonight and catching a night bus to the east; I afraid the condition in the bus would not be too comfortable, but hope that I will be pleasantly surprised.

... temor quan es troben davant d'algun desconegut.<br><br>A Yangon es possible comprovar la diferencia entre el colonialisme britanic i frances. Els britanics sempre han estat molt mes pragmatics i van anar una mica per feina, aixi que no es d'estranyar topar-se amb edificis d'us civil espaterrants i de mercat estil victoria, d'escoles i universitats al mes pur estil d'Oxford o d'una xarxa de ferrocarril (ara d'allo mes tronada i amb necessitada d'un manteniment ...

Myanmar has been the most interesting country I've ever visited. We get off the plane, the traditional way with a staircase, onto the tarmac with no other planes there. They stopped us before we got to the immigration officers, and used this temperature gadget to test all of us. The plane maybe had 100 passengers, so it's not like it took a long time. We get through immigration and some guy comes up to us with a name tag, asking us if we ...

... cuisine. We selected several dishes - curry beef, chicken, pork, creamed corn, eggplant and beef satays. It came with vegetarian soup and rice. It was all very good. Bill likes the food here better than Bangkok. He washed his lunch down with 2 beers that were equivalent to 3 pints. We also polished off 2 large bottles of water. After lunch they brought us a dessert that looked like soup. It was a cold coconut broth with green ...

... 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&#8217;re idiots? They spent more time talking about that then looking for fish. I don&#8217;t think they even KNEW where there was good snorkeling. It was just really weird,&#8221; she said.<br><br>&#8220;Oh,&#8221; I said. &#8220;What time do you guys want to go to dinner?&#8221;

... add some more details to that. Walking further around we discovered the entrance to the tower. Well, what shall I say, it wasn't locked and we were interested. We climbed up the steep wooden stairs, which were partly in complete darkness. That was thrilling enough, but the way down was even more difficult, when you can't see where you are going... and I HATE wooden stairs. Covered with cold sweat we arrived at the top. But we were rewarded with a great view. Then we ...

... the dry season when I visited it last so I was interested to see what it was like now as it is towards the end of the rainy season. The water was considerably higher and it was completely different. There was a huge bank in the middle of the river where Lio and I sat for a drink last time surrounded by a lovely sunflower garden, but it was completely submerged this time. I have included a photo from my last visit so you can see the difference. I made it back to the ...

... government nearly altogether, and instead support the hundreds of thousands of small businesses in Myanmar that are struggling to survive. It's difficult to describe how greatly people in Myanmar need tourists' money. In most of the places we visited, there were between one and three dozen tourists at generous estimate, yet there were hundreds businesses who depended on tourists for survival: hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, trekking guides, boat drivers ...