Panda Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)

... way to crush the cumin. For a treat, there is delicious bread and amazing black truffle cheese (with gold leaf and loads of truffle) from Sharky&#8217;s (the shop of the Burmese-Swiss foodie). When we cook, the temperature in the house rises dramatically, so we often have to retreat to our air-conditioned room upstairs to cool off. We&#8217;re also slowly making our rounds in the local restaurant scene. We&#8217;ll write up some reviews at the end of our Myanmar sojourn.<br ...

... rest of the afternoon consisted of taking a walk down to the Strand hotel and having a meal that cost us what we'd normally pay for 2 days of Food, Drink, Taxi's and Accomodation. We also got a bit of a look at the Australian Embassy down town, luck of guys toting machine guns cruising around.<br><br>The night ended with a bit more relaxing back at the guesthouse and preparation for our flight up to Mandalay in the morning with Yangon Airways.<br><br><br>

... fair, a question I ask myself often hehe!) and while I answered something obvious like..."because is makes me laugh"...this somehow got turned into "because he is a very good man" !....like chinese whispers or something!<br><br>On another occasion, while we were having dinner with a few boys we'd met in Pyay, we started talking about England and Myanmar, and I asked one whether he liked his country.....after looking over both shoulders he came back to me a hushed voice "I love my country ...

... as little as possible - the less you spend, the less the dodgy government gets. I thought seriously before going but from the minute we arrived, there was no doubt that the oppressed people of Burma wanted us there. Everywhere we went we were welcomed and we tried to share as much information about our countries as possible. Despite having the internet, it is too expensive for most people to ...

... new notes Some pretty good food here, both decent restaurants and the street food. Unreliable electricity - goes out at dusk - just had the power go out at the internet cafe @ 11am We stayed at the Ocean Pearl - Fairly clean but there was some mold around the windows and Theresa thought she heard a mouse -and you could hear the apartment above. Overall pretty inexpensive - $40/day really no problem Was overall surprised by the lack on "working" - not many shops, a ...

... from half a world away, while enjoying the still darkness of total isolation in a country that is being economically boycotted by the US. It was an historic and memorable evening.<br><br>The people around here get most of their news from short wave radio broadcasts from Voice of America and the BBC. The government has been known to confiscate short-wave radios. While they try to stifle information from the outside world the people are obsessed with getting it ...

The next morning, we were up bright and early so we could catch our flight to Yangon. It was cheaper to take a horse and carriage to the airport than a taxi, so we did. It was a fun way to go and again a blast to the past. Our flight this time was supposed to take us to Mandalay, Heho, and then down to Yangon. There was a lot of fog in Heho so all those flights were delayed. They were able to get another aircraft in to give us a direct flight from Mandalay down to Yangon. When we ...

We flew to Yangon (formerly Rangoon), the previous capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma) early in the morning on August 1. Both names were changed in the 1960s, when a military junta took control of the country and replaced the names of almost every city in order to erase what they saw as the stain of the British colonialists, who had reigned over country since 1885. In 2005, in a move that baffled many, the government moved the capital from Yangon to a tiny village ...

... der Stadt war eher schockierend.Es ist sehr dreckig, es stinkt nach allen moeglichen,die Strassen sind kaputt und ueberfuellte "Busse" in denen sich die Sardinen in der Dose wohler fuehlen wuerden. Mal ehrlich, wer Yangon als schoen empfindet muss wohl eine rosa Brille im Gesicht haben. Dennoch war unser Hostel im Vergleich zum Rest der Stadt total gut und echt luxerioes.Nachdem wir gefruehstueckt hatten und den wenigen Schlaf der Vornacht nachgeholt hatten, sind wir auf erkundungstour der ...

... We did try to find reasonable accommodation near the new Bangkok Airport, without much success. The hotel boasts a pool, fitness centre and a few tasteful shops featuring local artists. A string quartet entertained guests in the lobby that evening, and next day we very much enjoyed the traditional music of the "Saung Gauk", a Burmese boat-shaped harp dating from the eighth century, and a bamboo ...