"I've sat on chicken buses for hours, been in freezing temperatures on a bus through the Andes and been stopped on the Argentina border with drug smugglers on a bus......but this is ..."
A travel blog entry from Mandalay by
hodge
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"As we had planned to be in Vietnam at this point we unexpectedly had this chance to have a better look at Burma and the places we didn't have time to visit before. We headed to Man ..."
A travel blog entry from Mandalay by
m-and-c
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"I'd arranged to meet up with Rachel to travel Mandalay together. This meant getting up at about 5AM stumbling out into the dark and getting a trishaw driver to take me to the port. ..."
A travel blog entry from Mandalay by
irax
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"Rudyard Kipling wrote a famous work called the Road to Mandalay, which is slightly ironic as he apparently never came here, limiting himself in Yangon and nearby Moulmein instead. ..."
"Mandalay. The name itself conjured images of an exotic city covered in gold in my mind. However, the reality that is Burma's second largest city couldn't have been further from thi ..."
A travel blog entry from Mandalay by
will
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"Kipling paid it homage in a famous poem, Maugham waxed poetic over its many splendors and Orwell was stationed there as a policeman and later wrote his own love letter to the forme ..."
"Written by Nelly Written in Yangon Dec 27, 2004 Mandalay Mandalay sounds so romantic, but it's a hot and dusty modern town with none of the old colonial buildings left. I don't thi ..."
A travel blog entry from Mandalay by
jessnel
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"Mandalay - From Yangon I took a 16 hr overnight "express" bus to Mandalay. I met a couple of guys from Sweden and England who I travelled around with for a while. Indep ..."
"Maaske har de ikke raad til cigaretter, men et eller andet tygger de paa i gademylderet, og man skal passe paa, for det flyver om oererne med store, aekle, roede spytklatter. Dog m ..."
"We left Nyaungshwe for Mandalay in the back of a pickup with 20 or so locals, headed for Shwenyaung, a town on the main road where you can grab a bus. We spent a couple of hours si ..."
Mandalay, Myanmar
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