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Travel Blogs from Mandalay
Mandalay to Pakkoku by slow boat. Myanmar - Burma
... right. Then as we entered the closing stages of the trip the kids of the onboard traders started walking the deck asking for cans and plastic bottles that they collect and exchange for meagre reward at the end of the journey. We all passed over our cans and bottles and I for one felt the warm glow of the smug responsible tourist that I was doing my bit to give something back to the grassroots, avoid a government skim, and what's more, save the planet. Moments later the same kids ...
Best Week Ever, Thai Style
... yet that was overlooking the area. Actually, not my favorite temple, but my favorite temple experience because they split us up by our day of birth and showed us how to perform the blessing for this day. This was the first time someone has actually shown me what to do, or what it all means, and my tour guide was a 10-year old girl with excellent English and she led me around step by step helping me out. They have books for tourists to look up their day of birth, but for Thai people ...
The Road to Mandalay
04:50 alarm call and off the Yangon Airport for the short flight to Mandalay. Arrived there and luggage for the group appeared on the conveyor, well everyone's apart for John's and we were told that his was still in Yangon and would be sent on a later flight. Straight from Airport to see the sights and first stop was to Inwe one of the old capitals of Burma. This involved a coach journey followed by a short ferry ...
The Road to Mandalay
... mostly at the end of the day, after work to meditate on the events of that day, an individual ritual but also a social gathering. The atmosphere at these Paya’s is special, with the humming of prayer, the incense and candles burning, the rituals being performed. An elderly men explains us the octagonal design and some astrology background: there are eight signs, each linked to a day of the week (Wednesday is split into morning and afternoon), and depending on the ...
BA. of Science in Exploring management
... of the strange incongruity of the Yangon cityscape. Yangon itself is relatively young, compared to the rest of the country. It became the capital only in 1885 when the British completed their conquest of northern Myanmar, and Mandalay’s brief period as the centre of the last Burmese kingdom ended.
Subject: local Specialties
One of my favorite and most interesting subjects is called "local specialties". In this subject you just walk around the city ...
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Other places to stay in Mandalay
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Sedona Hotel Mandalay
1 Junction of 26th and 66th Street, Mandalay | 4 star hotelfrom $191 -
Mandalay City Hotel
26th Street, Between 82nd and 83rd Street, Chanayetharzan Township, Mandalay | 3 star hotelfrom $79 -
Mandalay Swan Hotel
44 (B), 26th Road, Between 26th and 28th Street, Mandalay | 4 star hotelfrom $35 -
Nadi Myanmar Hotel
62nd Street between 36th & 37th Street, Mandalay | 2 star hotel -
Hotel by the Red Canal, Mandalay
No. 417 Corner of 63 & 22 streets, Mandalay | 3 star hotelfrom $75 -
Amara Mountain Resort
10/182 Thida Road Quarter 10, Mandalay | Hotelfrom $106 -
Royal City Hotel
27th Street between 76th and 77th, Mandalay | Hotel -
Royal Guest House
41 25th Street, Mandalay | Hotel -
Silver Star Hotel
No. 195, Corner of 27th Street and 83rd Street, Mandalay | Hotel -
Emerald Land Inn Mandalay
No 9, 14 Street, Pyi Gyi Yan Lone Quarters, Mandalay | 3 star hotelfrom $88 -
Power Hotel
686 80th St., Mandalay | Hotelfrom $50 -
Unity Hotel Mandalay
Corner of 27th St. & 82nd St., Mandalay | Hotel -
Pacific Hotel Mandalay
Corner of 30&78th St., Chan Aya Tha Zan T/S, Mandalay | Hotel -
Treasure Hotel Mandalay
East Ye Zit Kan, Mandalay | 3 star hotel -
Mann Myanmar Inn
27th Street, between 65th and 66th Street, Mandalay | Hotel -
Conqueror Resort Hotel
Singong Quarter, Mandalay | Hotel -
Thiri Myaing Hotel
Anarahta Rd., Mandalay | Hotel -
May Flower Hotel
No.425, Maha Aung Mye Township, Mandalay | Hotel -
Golden Express Hotel Mandalay
No.G/43, 9th Street, Chanmyashwepyi Or, Kywesekan, Mandalay | Hotel
