Yangon International Yangon (Rangoon)

... Daniel has been more adventurous, experimenting with Yoga and Burmese kick-boxing. <br><br>"I had my first kick boxing class the other day with the former Myanmar kick-boxing champion. Not perhaps where I expected to find myself, and after my performance, probably not where my trainer expected to see me either. His gym, if it can be called that, is an oil-stained external garage with a tin roof, no walls, one large mirror and three tyres used for "warm up" or 20 minutes of ...

... greeting we got at the airport was a shot in the head with a thermal scanner, then onto the immigration officers in brand new clean and pressed white uniforms before picking up our bags and heading through the easiest Customs red channel in the world.<br><br>The taxi ride into Yangon city was great, we were greeted with views of monks in red robes hanging of the backs of trucks, men strolling around in Longyi and betel nut stains on everything.<br><br ...

... straight away she put some on her young son, and then kept coming back to me, not to ask for anything, but to show me that she'd used it, and the big grin was still firmly planted on her face.<br><br>We also made many friends along the way...some really great locals that we had a lot of fun with.....many were English students wanting to improve their English and find out about far off England....about 3 times were invited to tea and then driven around by a bunch of youths on the back of ...

... br>we have 2 months here ........which is great ............in the same way that if you were about to run a marathon you would be excited ............some times will be tough ...other times will be amazing .....but when we leave in 2 months im sure we will leave with a great satisfaction of having achieved something <br><br>NICK (&amp; Jen) xxxxx<br><br>As Jerry Springer once said - Be nice to yourselves , and each other.<br><br><br><br>Check out pics on facebook if you can <br><br><br>

... bus ride - at 7:00, 12:00 and 4:15 for 1/2 hour for food and pee breaks. At 1:30 we were at a check point and had to get off the bus to show our passports. At 10:50 we stopped for 20 minutes to let a 5 car train go by! Everytime we fell asleep, it was another stop and you were not allowed to stay on the bus. We arrived in Mandalay 13 3/4 hours later at 7:15 am. It was a long journey, but we were able to sleep on and off fairly comfortably and it saved one hotel fee!

... br>The girls were loving the pastoral mountain scenery and boat trips and didn&#8217;t complain too much about our accommodation, which was a resort of sorts built on stilts out on the lake. It had all the modern conveniences except TV in the rooms. This may not seem like a big deal considering we were out in the middle of a lake in a secluded and ignored country in a quiet corner of the world. However, this was the day that Barack Obama was to be inaugurated as ...

... program of rape. Soldiers are ordered to rape indigenous women in the eastern part of the country, as a systematic and widespread attempt to dilute the ethnicity of these populations. In stark contrast to this gruesome background, the actual holiday aspects of the trip were nice: beautiful pagodas (most of which we did not actually enter because the entrance fee supports the government), delicious local food, colorful traditional dancing and music, etc. We ...

... t really dropped since the cyclone. Still about US$35 for 50KG. The rates in the black market is slightly better. I used to get Ky1200 for every US$1. Now I get Ky1260. But of course, if we go to a licensed money changer, it could only be Ky850 for every US$1. And if your USD is in smaller denomination, the value drops. The taxi we took just now is actually imported from Singapore. How cool is that ...

... abholen koennen.Gleich danach haben wir unseren Flug fuer den 23.06. gebucht. Da der Flug frueh morgens um 7 Uhr war haben wir beschlossen die vorherige nacht auf dem Flughafen zu campen.Die Klimaanlage war aber so eisekalt und die Sitze unbequem das nicht grossartig an Schlafen zu denken war.Egal, irgendwie haben wir die Nacht aber doch ueberstanden und sind ca.8:30 Uhr in Yangon gelandet. Noch im Flughafen haben wir jemanden stehen sehen mit dem Schild"Motherland Inn". Das war das ...

... at at least $50, so I had to believe his claim of an exclusive promotional rate. Even here, we were greeted with a welcome fruit drink in the impressive marble lobby. Our room had all the modern trappings and a wonderful view over the large People's Park next to the Schwe Dagon temple complex. After dinner we would see the main golden paya lit up for the evening from the rooftop vantage patio. As soon ...