Strand Yangon (Rangoon)
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Last Day In Yangon
Yesterday evening, after leaving the internet cafe, I grabbed a taxi to Shwedagon Pagoda, the can't miss sight of Yangon. As with everything in Asia, it was a study in contrasts. On the one hand, it really is something you have to see if you're in Yangon. A 300' tall pagoda plated with 7 tons of gold IS an impressive sight, and beautiful as well. …
Kinpun (Golden Rock) back to Yangon
The closing stages of our Burmese adventure entailed another monumental journey and opportunity to lament, from Inle Lake to Kinpun, via Bago ( a city that boasts plentiful monuments to ancient Burmese kingdoms and impressive sculptures also). The first leg of this 23 hour epic was 16 hours on a thankfully well equipped bus (11,000 Kyat) and our …
Skirts, santa hats and kiss-chase with the waiters
Spending Christmas in Burma is not something I thought I'd ever be doing, but the prospect of Turkey and trimmings with friends in the 30 degree heat of a country relatively few westerners have visited just proved too much of a lure. Having failed to visit my ex-colleague Nigel when the British Embassy had sent him to comparatively mundane places …
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Back in Yangon
... international terminal, accessed by a shuttle bus on which I got chatting to a very sweet young Kazakh student, Daniel, studying in Singapore and on his way home to Almaty for a holiday, but looking for some help to get to the correct check-in desk, so I sorted him out. He was telling me that most of the food in Almaty is meat and I commented that I'll struggle when I go there as I'm vegetarian, but queried what kind of meat is most popular and ...
Paya
... At some pagodas you even get a bottle of water.
Today I have visited the next pagodas:
- Botataung
- Ngathatgyi (sitting boedha)
- chaukhtatgyi (reclining boedha)
Besides that I have been at Karaweik. Once an enormous boat, but these days a concrete copy all the time at the same location. Now it serves as a restaurant with a dinner shows for tourists. This afternoon I went to to Bogyoke market. Did not like it, very much of the same. Instead of that I made ...



