After two full days spent on trains, we arrived in Yangon Christmas Eve. There wasn’t much we felt we needed to see here, aside from a visit to the massive Shwedagon Pagoda, so the main reason we visited at all is because we had a cheap flight back to Bangkok on AirAsia. It was interesting […]
When we first started researching how to get around Myanmar, Anna-Lisa’s brother sent us a link to a very interesting website, Seat61.com. This website was started by a guy in England whose goal was to provide people with a place to find accurate train destinations and travel times for trips around Europe. Over time, the site has grown […]
After spending a full day exploring Inle Lake, we decided to spend the next day on dry land. Exploring the roads around the northern part of the lake via bicycle is quite a popular activity, and one that we enjoyed doing! Starting in Nyaung Shwe, it is possible to do a complete loop involving a transfer across […]
In all of the places that we visited in Myanmar, Inle Lake was our favorite. (Bagan is a close second). It was peaceful, beautiful and lush. The mountains enclosing it were serene. After the dusty cities and towns we visited earlier, Inle felt like a breath of fresh air. The lake is located in the Shan […]
Have you ever wondered how much you would pay for a once in a lifetime experience? What if that experience lasted about 45-60 minutes? Is it even really that unique? On a cold clear morning in Bagan, we were able to answer this question; our hot air balloon ride with Balloons over Bagan really was […]
The second place we visited in Myanmar was Bagan, currently a little town on the Irrawaddy River. At one point 700-900 years ago, it was the center of a thriving civilization. The reason it is a popular tourist destination is because it has the highest concentration of pagodas and temples in the world, all dating […]
The Irrawaddy River cuts a graceful path through the middle of Myanmar, going all the way from the northernmost reaches of the country down to the Gulf of Bengal in the south. Many of Myanmar’s people rely on this peaceful river is one way or another, and as such, floating down it provides a great […]
We started out our Myanmar adventure in Mandalay, the last seat of the old Burmese Kingdom before the British colonized them in the late 1800s. We landed at the recently built, yet underused, Mandalay Airport in the middle of green fields and then took the free Air Asia bus 45 mins to the city center. […]
