Kyaik Hto Hotel
Travel Blogs from Kyaikto
Vlakem po rovince, do kopce pěšky
Dneska vstáváme brzo, protože musíme stihnout vlak v sedm do Kyaikhto. Díky tomu máme možnost během snídaně pozorovat krásný východ slunce nad Sule pagoda, vedle níž bydlíme. K snídani je toust s maslem a červená marmeláda, kterou se nám přeze všechnu snahu nepovedlo identifikovat. Ve vlaku jsme samozř …
The golden rock
... a new pep in our step from sitting for so long so we kept a great pace and made it in no time. The walk up was very nice. We passed by several vendors that didn't harass us at all. Many sold very peculiar items like centipedes and gross animal parts. We made it to the rock and the view was just striking! You could see the delta and endless forests. The rock itself is totally beautiful! It ...
...knock over a golden rock.
... but they are definitely not worth the price they
charge. In Vietnam $20 got you two big beds in a well decorated,
clean, modern room with a nice TV and usually a small fridge. In
Myanmar it gets you a moldy bathroom, foam pad beds, lights and
sockets that don’t work and probably an A/C that also doesn’t
work – fortunately it’s a little cooler in Kyaitiyo and we didn’t
really need ...
A hell of a day at Golden Rock
... It was now 11.30am, and as we only had one day here, it was time to get going up the mountain.
The manager took us both on the back of his motorbike to where we would get in the truck. It was a huge flatbed truck that would seat 45 people. We were told it would only go when full…and we were the first two there, so not a particularly promising start! Before long there were about 20 people and they decided that would do, ...
The long road - Bagan to Golden Rock
... the mother simply had her squat right by the steps we would all have to use to get back on the bus. The area was floodlit and where all the passengers were facing, but no one seemed to bat an eyelid, apart from us uptight westerners!
We arrived in Yangon at 4.30 in the morning, with very little sleep but at least a good idea of what our plan was. We had done our research and knew we could jump on another bus that would take ...
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