Parkroyal Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)

... for the bus to appear. Apparently, the buses do have a schedule but they never run on them since they breakdown constantly and the road conditions make it difficult to travel more than 20-30 mph on what they would consider to be highways. After Sein Thun would catch the bus, the trip would take another 4 hours to get to Yangon and then he would have to ride a cab to the Blind School. All be told, the amount of time this brother would spend getting to listen to me teach ...

Than lyian..,<br>Than lyian is Burmese tuong,and foreigners pronounce syriam,what ever there you can see island in the middle of river and nice view around of pagoda,We call yay le pagoda,meaning is pagoda in the middle.Yangon dwellers have weeken days and holiday they spent to go there and have picnic with friends or family or ...

After 10 hour of flight transfers and surviving a night at Suvarnabhumi Airport we finally arrived to Yangon (Myanmar)! <br><br>So here we are now! After checking two guesthouse we finally decided to stay in the Okinawa Gesthouse with clean and cosy rooms. We Pay 20USD for a big double room with air con and bathroom. <br><br>Today we visited the Shwedagon Paya, an impressive golden pagoda, were a nice guide showed us around. What we learned: in myanmar culture it is believed that people born ...

... que enllaca amb els indrets mes perduts i que envegen els seus veins. Sens dubte es van aprofitar del poble birma, pero si mes no van saber deixar alguna llegat practic que van poder aprofitar els locals despres de la seva independencia.<br><br>Si les pluges monzoniques s'havien mostrat timides i esquives a la resta dels paisos del sud-est asiatic que he visitat, la meva arribada a Yangon, coincideix amb alguna mostra de la seva versio mes virulenta ...

... lady who invited us to dinner. Nick was ill so I went by myself not really knowing what to expect! She met me at my hotel with her friend and we took a trishaw to her house. As we left the lit streets I became a little nervous....I had no idea where I was going in the middle of nowhere at night with a stranger! But when we got off the trishaw (and after she refused my offer of money to pay for it) she, sensing my concern, took me by the hand!! I thought it was so sweet and motherly! When ...

... a taxi, so we say yes. He brings us out to this line of old, beat up Japanese cars from the early 1980's, talking to us about getting a good exchange rate with this guy, offering 900 for a USD, but in all the confusion, we get into the taxi, then my friend and I eventually get taken off the main road through the labyrinth of dirt roads, similar to Korea, but less clean and orderly, and he stops. He goes to get his friend, and asks for ...

... and shredded coconut. I had a mug of green tea with it. It was all very good and only cost $12. We had a nice long break there and planned our trip to Mandalay. We are going to stay an extra day in Yangon, get money tomorrow, catch up on the internet and take the overnight bus to Mandalay instead of a flight. We walked around Shwedagon Paya on our way to the 2 Payas we did not see yesterday. We were lost again, so we took a cab. The ...

... on, on our mission to change money. In the market the exchange rate was from 1100 to 1155 to the US dollar... but we've been offered a higher rate before, by a Indian guy who I actually disliked. Anyhow, as his rate was best we went back. After all, as long as we count careful enough and they don't beat us up, what was supposed to happen? He and some other guy brought us to a small "office" and soon brought the money. So we sat and counted. And counted again. All ...

... and onto the roof just in time for sunset and it was there that I met the lovely Lindy. We met briefly over breakfast and enjoyed a nice sunset together discussing our day then heading out for some food. We went to the tea shop I had drunk tea with my rickshaw driver, Sien Tung, whom I met before I headed off to Monywa. Lindy was heading off to see the Mustache Brothers after food and as I had already seen them and decided to stay in the tea shop. England where ...

... shops, and so on. The infrastructure is there to handle a large number of tourists in very comfortable accommodations, but there is almost no one to take advantage of it. Nearly every single Burmese person we met lamented to us how terrible their business had been, particularly over the last year. They often told us how much they were hoping more people would come: "October, November (the beginning of the high season)... maybe then there will be more tourists. If ...