Classique Inn Yangon (Rangoon)

... det ja saa render samtlige mennsker ogsaa rundt i lungier som er sarronger oversat til dansk. Baade maend og kvinder – saa lidt Indien bliver man mindet om ved at vaere her i landet.

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En af de ting som vi har haft en smule kvaler med at komme over er hele det her veksle dollar til kyat-halloj som man ikke rigtig kan komme udeom i Myanmar. Man kan kun veksle til lokal valuta (kyat) inde i landet og man kan kun gore det paa to mader. Og ingen af ...

... but with the elections next year things will likely get more difficult again before any change. There is, amazingly, hope things might change, but I won’t be holding my breath.

Dinner party conversations invariably turn at some point to the regime and views range from the pragmatic to the paranoid. We had to come into the country on a tourist visa, which basically restricted our access to the field sites Merlin covers. As a tourist in the main sites ...

... of the bible. That is convicting is it not? I asked myself how many hours would I invest to get toa Bible seminar? How far would you travel and how much time would you invest? Convicting is it not?

Well, I am sure you are wondering about the rice patty and how it fits into this email update. Well, once we arrived at the village of Mink Ko, I was asked to pray for the family, the village congregation,and for our trip into the rice patty so we could visit brother ...

... I asked Brother Robert why was noone responding to my questions or even asking any questions at teh end of the sessiosn? Robert answered by telling me that it is Burmese culture not to ask questions of the teacher during the class. The student would only dare to ask questions of the teacher only in private and after the bulk of the class has departed. It is a way that the student shows their respect for the teacher. To them it woudl be considered to be rude to ...

... buildings; the dirty sidewalks are cramped with desperate people who set up small stands – sometimes just a piece of tarp on the ground – to sell whatever they have: raw meats, fruits, snacks, old books, pirated DVDs, clothes, wrapped betel seeds, molded microscopes that are useless; the streets are filled by old and beat-up cars and buses, and no motorcycle – because the ruling generals don't want the people to be too mobile.

Burma is isolated and ...

... pito de 7 metres, de la qual malauradament no en puc fer cap foto, i que es sens dubte l'estrella de l'indret, ara convertida a mes en el centre dels rituals religiosos i en la base economica que sustenta la poblacio monastica del temple. La bestia es enorme i no se realment si fa la longitud que m'assegura el guia perque esta tota enrotllada, pero si que constato que la part mes ample del cos te un diametre de gairebe un pam de tan ...

... the odds for everything we bought..........

From the first day i had a shave in the street ........i paid double the price............the barber earned a bit more that day .....maybe he bought some more food that night ......the shopkeeper selling his food earned a bit more etc etc......there are no corporations here ...only the government and if our money goes to the people .....and likeminded travellers are doing the same then we are boosting the economy where the ...

... a free-for-all at the airports It probably sounds like I hate Myanmar, but I do not. I think it is very interesting and I am glad that we included it in our voyage. If you want to try something different, this is the place for you! I really did enjoy Inle Lake and would go back. I really liked Mandalay too. It is a thriving city. I would have loved Bagan too if the people would not have been so "in your face".

... a day. Stella's bitterness was mainly reserved for the treatment of the poor who seem to have been mainly abandoned by the political rulers. The stories of aid for rural people post Cyclone Nargis in 2009 were terrifying. We had lunch on the north shore of the Kandawygi lake at a Burmese restaurant. Good food and not expensive (12,000 Kyat/$12 for two) and from there on to the Shwedagon Padoga. This is a assault of ...

... adventure to Myanmar. The country is one of the worlds worst military junta's, but filled with some of the great sites in Asia. It also has some of Asia’s warmest, brightest and friendliest people, all kept firmly pressed down under the thumbs of the generals who run the country.

I have to tell you that the four of us have traveled together on other occasions including a bicycle trip around the Greek island of Crete and a bike tour through the Greek ...