Kyaikto Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This was a lovely, if hot walk we did for a day. We got up early (as was becoming the norm) and had breakfast in a restaurant beside the road.Eggs and sweet toast, with jam and sweet tea. Sugar sugar sugar. It was a hot morning even before we left for the 11km hike uphill through hillside villages, if you could call them that. It was beautiful. ...

Early start this morning I wanted to catch the first truck up to Kyaikhtiyo (the Golden Rock). The first truck was a 6am so it was still dark when I started off. After a 45min truck ride there was a 45min walk, so the plan was to do it before the sun got too hot. The truck was bumpy (1,5000k) and the seats were designed for people 5'4" so very ...

Kyaiktiyo or known as the Golden Rock is a major pilgrimage site for Burmese (one of the most sacred sites in Myanmar). Legend has it that the big boulder that seems to balance precariously over an edge of a cliff at the top of Mt Kyaiktiyo is due to a Buddha hair placed in the stupa on top of the boulder. The locals had painted the boulder brig...

Finally! A nice place, a nice hotel, and nice people again. We arrived later in the afternoon than anticipated (had to wait longer than expected for a bus in Bago - apparently buying a ticket doesn't always mean anything). Still, we found a great hotel which was such a bonus after the place in Bago. We went to bed early the first night as we nee...

We started early in the morning in Hpa-An, took a pick up track to Kinpun on which I had to ride in the roof of the truck with all the other men and arrived in Kinpun in the early after noon. Then we went up the mountain to see the Golden Rock, which is... well a golden rock with a small stupa on top. But I guess it's really important to the loc...

It's a few days later and Nick and I are still here in Koh Chang, Thailand. We're still relaxing and being rather mindless, with our only major concern being the sun --- whether it's going to break through and give us that ONE greatly desired day basking in its rays. But so far it has been overcast and rainy, regrettably representative condition...

Well, if you go there, try not to go on a hazy day. It was a bit disapointing because we didn't see anything down the hill. We also got caught in a heavy rain while in the truck back to Kinpun.

The weather in Rangoon was surprisingly cool as I departed the White House for the Aung Mingalar bus station, close to an hour away. However what was even more surprising than the temperature was the thick fog that had blanketed the city. In more than a year in south east Asia the only places I'd seen fog were in the highlands and never in a cit...