Inle Lake Resorts - Reviews and Rates

After Yangon, we decided to make our way up to the mountain region and specifically Inle Lake. We had a few transportation options, but we chose to take a night bus because if saves us a day and was cheap...plus it didn't contribute money to the government like the other two options did (more info to come on this later). So, we got on the bus at...

After a couple days in Yangon, we decided it was time to head for the mountains where it's a lot cooler. So we caught a cab to the bus station which was about 45 minutes away. The station itself was a chaotic mess. It was lines of garages, not unlike a U-Store it with a muddy field for a parking lot. There were teems of vendors milling about sel...

HALLO! huff puff huff puff! guess what, i am so glad to be back in the guesthouse! serve me right for wanting to drink tea after my canoe trip at one teashop at the corner of the river, far end of the village. they had taken so long to make the tea, by the time i was done, it was pitch dark. i thought it should be ok, and i realise that every si...

this is a story about love, friendship, and limitations. :( but before that, let's talk about the good news first. i survived my three day trek. 8 hours on the first day, 8 hours on the second day and 6 hours on the third day. we had to climb ridges, jump over stones and boulders, and cross mountains. it was not an easy trek for an unfit person ...

Swapping the luxury of the embassy-lifestyle of Rangoon for the sights and sounds of the "real" Burma, we landed in the middle of a field, shuffled off the tiny plane that had just about carried us north and headed for the concrete outhouse that we took to be the terminal. Heathrow it ain't. We'd arrived to take a whirlwind tour of Inle Lake, of...