Power Hotel Mandalay
686 80th St. Mandalay, Myanmar
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Mandalay
... binnen. Deze dus maar overgeslagen. Naar vier pagodes slaat de boeddha moeheid sowieso een beetje toe. 's-Avonds nog met Harm-Jan en Anne de U Bein's bridge buiten de stad bezocht. Deze brug is ruim een kilometer lang en was oorspronkelijk van teakhout. In een bootje op het meer hebben we de zonsondergang bekeken.
Zaterdag
Vandaag ga ik enige bezienswaardigheden in de omgeving van Mandalay bekijken. De eerste is de afsluiter van gisteren: U Bein's bridge. ...
Mandalay Hill
... groups, which wasn't the tourism profile I expected, but of course all the backpackers must be on the bus! I felt like I'd left it just a little too late... I ummed and ahhed for years over Burma with the old "should I, shouldn't I? dilemma". The activist groups said "Don't go!" as that means financially supporting the regime, but friends who went said "Do go!" as the locals desperately need your tourist income and want ...
Mandalay - one morning on the backseat of ...
... jegliche Arbeiterschicht ... und alle starrten auf die Glotze. Wie zu Hause in einem Sportscafe, dachte ich mir. Ein nettes Bild fuer sich.
Die Fahrt ging weiter zu unserem zweiten Ziel an diesem wunderschoenen Morgen.
Eine sehr grosse goldene Pagode auf dem Hausberg von Sagaing die man erklimmen muss.
Beim Runterlaufen habe ich bei 300 Stufen aufgehoert zu zaehlen, aber es hatte sich gelohnt.
Es war ein tolles Licht, die Sonne stand schon warm ...
Royal Capitals and Record Breakers
... ATR 72 decorated for Christmas again, took just 30 minutes. Our new guide met us at Mandalay airport. He was called Zin and already seemed much more enthusiastic about his role that the guide we had had in Bagan. He told us a little about the way of life in Mandalay as we drove through fields of peanuts, mangoes, coconuts and bananas.
Our first visit of the day was to be to a monastery but this one would be a bit different as we were to watch the monks ...
A cool time at Pyin Oo Lwin
... set on large blocks. While the
English homes are still present they have lost some of their splendour and the
land in between is now built up on. The military still make use a former
British base as a military school. Far from being cold it was mild and sunny.
We had a pot of tea at an English house being renovated into a hotel, then off
and a beautiful restaurant set in an English garden. After a short stroll
around the markets it ...


