MiCasa Hotel Apartments Yangon (Rangoon)

... living in the rice patties and traveling to the main village by foot to bring their harvest to the market and to buy at the market. The sun as usual in the 10-40 window part of the world was hot.The Lord put it on my heart to bring my baseball cap with me. It was the first time I did so and boy was I thanking God for his prompt in. If I did not have that cap, my scalp would have been burned to a crisp! Oh yea, the weather was....yep you guessed it...HOT and HUMID ...

... side traffic inherited from the British. The problem is that the western nations won&#8217;t trade with this country, so the cars come from Japan, where they have left-sided traffic. This makes overtaking on highways a bit tricky, doesn&#8217;t it?<br><br>Even if there&#8217;s 5 million people living in Yangon, it seems to be centuries away from the crowded and busy Bangkok. Here you also don&#8217;t really see many people wearing suits and foreigners are also very ...

... Taw, a very pointless but expensive move.<br><br>I will always hold Myanmar with special affection...there is so much that I haven't even written about......we have had a brilliant Myanmar adventure, not least the things we've seen but mainly the people that we've met. The next elections are going to be held next year, the first 'multiparty' election since 1990....and like all the people that I have met......I will be keeping my fingers crossed................................ .<br><br>Love to you all! xx<br>

... we wind up at the Eastern Hotel which is located in a old, British sector filled with dilapidating colonial buildings and modern, communist-ish apartment buildings. It was an interesting mixture, but definitely not uncommon. Finally we get a map and begin our day at an internet cafe. After all this we find out that the taxi driver was right, we did local money right away, the bus station was the right station, the price was right ...

... late. It is going to be between 32 and 37 degrees and sunny in Yangon all week. It does cool down at night into the 20's, so that is good. I was getting hungry and decided to grab a bun with chicken at the airport. I did not have the local currency yet, so I tried to use some US singles. The cashier carefully scrutinized the money and even gave some back to me. This may become a problem for us. I became even more alarmed when the kid who helped put our bags in the ...

ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY (February 2009)<br><br>Have any of you men out there ever had to go on holiday with not just one, and not just two, but THREE women at one time? Now at first glance this might sound like a lot of fun. Go back to your college days and run that fantasy through your little head. Fast forward thirty plus years and think again. Well, so much for dreaming.<br><br>We set off, along with two of our best traveling companions Jodie and Silvia, for our ...

... and getting into Thailand. However, these areas are restricted so you have to fly down there and it isn't cheap. Our airline wasn't charging us extra so we thought it best to just wait it out. We came to this conclusion after hours on the internet and talking with other travelers. I think we made the best choice and were lucky to get out on the 4th, others booked more expensive tickets for the 1oth so now they are leaving later and paying more to do so. We spent the week ...

... our farewell to the amazing Burmese people. (Sarah - I gave your thankakha to one of the lads working in one of the tea shops and made him very happy). Lindy and I were on the same flight so the following morning with heavy hearts we headed to the airport and to the dizzying comparison of Bangkok. Burma is a really special place. Unfortunately I believe part of its appeal is brought about from its isolation as you are treated like royalty as not many people venture ...

... US $30,000-40,000 each, so almost no one can afford them. Cell phones cost in the range of thousands of dollars; the typical person in Myanmar makes less than $1 a day, working seven days a week at a salaried job, so those, too, are simply out of reach. In Thailand, foreigners are shuttled in what they call "VIP" charter buses from destination to destination at high speeds; in Myanmar ancient buses creep along pothole-ridden roads, with people sitting on plastic ...

I sweated bullets over entering Myanmar. There's a requirement to declare cash holdings over $2000US per person. Dan and Carolann had added Myanmar to the end of their Asian itinerary on short notice and had no access to significant American cash. We agreed to bring extra for their needs. The Myanmar embassy staff in Ottawa had confirmed this limit and emphasised the severe consequences if not observed. They suggested there would be an accounting for ...