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Mon, 2 Feb 2015 | By veganliesa | Views [454] | Comments [2]
January 30 @ 1129 Welcome to Burma!! (I apologise for the formatting of these entries! This is a terrible site for journaling and I don't recommend it at all!)
We got up at seven to truck it over the border to Burma this ... Read more >
Fri, 9 Jan 2015 | By kamzam | Views [786]
Next day we headed out for a 2 day trek round the surrounding mountains. We were originally planning to do the famous Inle to Kalaw trek but where convinced by the many locals that the surrounding nature is just as beautiful and if you do not have a ... Read more >
Tags: burma, inle lake, kalaw, myanmar, road less travelled, trekking
Fri, 9 Jan 2015 | By kamzam | Views [731]
The overnight VIP bus dropped us from Yangon to Inle Lake, or more accurately, Nyaungshwe. This is the city to which you need to buy your bus ticket and where you are most likely going to stay as it has most accommodation food options.
I ... Read more >
Tags: burma, inle lake, myanmar, red mountain winery, trekking
Sun, 14 Dec 2014 | By dangnguyentuananh | Views [604] | Video
My latest trip to Myanmar on November of 2014 with all great memories in 3 minutes
A longer travel guide video will be available soon Location: Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay, Nyaungshwe
Tags: bagan, mandalay, monastery, monk, myanmar, nyaungshwe, pagoda, temple, travel, yangon
Tue, 9 Dec 2014 | By kamzam | Views [657]
I missed being in Asia, having spent most of my recent travels on the other side of the ocean it was so nice to come back here. As soon as you land at the airport the humidity hits, the smells surround you and you find yourself in a completely different ... Read more >
Tags: asia, burma, monks, myanmar, rangoon, yangon
Fri, 5 Dec 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [265]
Last morning with the group, a visit to The Shwedaggon Pagoda which was huge and currently having its 5yr restoration works- more gold plates to the outside, I think each one was £500! Then to Yangon airport where we said our goodbyes and left ... Read more >
Fri, 5 Dec 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [291]
We walked to the locals market in the morning where they were selling everything, from scrubbing brushes to live meal worms, dried frogs, fish piled up still alive with their gills and mouths still going, samurai style handmade swords to fruit, clothing ... Read more >
Fri, 5 Dec 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [276]
Another bumpy bus ride to more Shan villages, this time to a very secluded village where the children were very grubby! There were children carrying babies in slings, one girl who was only about 6 yrs old had a 6 month old in a sling on her back &... Read more >
Tue, 2 Dec 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [553] | Comments [1]
Took a bus trip & hike to a hill tribe village in eastern Shan state. Sarah was poorly with a tummy bug so stayed at the hotel & chilled. The ride bus ride to the foot of the mountain was very bumpy in our little mini bus but we made it. We then ... Read more >
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [279] | Comments [2]
Late flight from Heho to Kengtung. Kengtung is in the remote valleys of eastern Shan state, part of the Golden Triangle that encompasses Thailand and Laos, home to dozens of minority tribes. Our small coach stopped by the standing Buddha, 1 tree hill ... Read more >
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [298]
Short boat ride to the start of our trek with the group splitting in 2: a short slow walk and faster longer walk, and yes obviously we took the harder option!! This was the first time we had seen spiders....... proper big spiders!!!! They were ... Read more >
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [315] | Comments [1]
Inle Lake is 22km long with the locals living and working in stilted bamboo houses.
We took a short walk to jump into our 3 boats to take us around the lake. We saw the unique fishing techniques with some of them posing at the end of their small ... Read more >
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [323]
Trek back from monastery and passed through a small village where we had lunch cooked by the locals again. Then into the coach for drive to Inle lake.
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [281]
Early wake-up call for short flight to HeHo. After a few hours on the coach we were dropped off for the start of our trek up to the monastery with a pre arranged local lunch just for our group at a local home in the middle of nowhere. The lunch was amazing ... Read more >
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 | By emmaandsarah | Views [320] | Comments [4]
We cycled from the hotel to a local small village, with houses mainly made from bamboo to see how they make items to sell from bamboo including bowls, plates and decorative items. It was amazing to see them just get a big bit of bamboo and start ... Read more >
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