I’m going to run through the rest of Myanmar quickly, or else I’ll never catch up.
We spent 3 days in Nyaungshwe, mostly resting and recovering from the trek. We did hire a longboat for one day, to tour the villages and handicraft shops scattered around Lake Inle. In town we met a local man who [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Yangon’
What the hell…? #4
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged Amarapura, Ayerwaddy, Bagan, Burmese Days, George Orwell, Inle Lake, Innwa, Mandalay, Myanmar, pagoda, Yangon on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in Yangon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Myanmar, Nargis, typhoon, Yangon on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, we made it back to Yangon in one piece, despite another brutal bus trip. The road from Bagan to Yangon is one of the main thoroughfares in Myanmar, yet it’s barely wide enough for two busses or trucks to pass going in opposite directions (they both have to slow down and at least one [...]
Should I stay…?
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged Bagan, Mandalay, Myanmar, typhoon, Yangon on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Big Question that’s been percolating in our minds over the past day, as we hear more news from y’all, the internet, and by asking questions of locals here: Should we get the hell outta Dodge? My first inclination was (of course) to stay – to finish most of my trip, and then to try [...]
Safe & hot w/aching butt in Mandalay
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged cyclone, Inle Lake, Mandalay, Myanmar, trekking, typhoon, Yangon on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here we are in Mandalay after a long (9-hour), bumpy bus ride on painfully hard seats. For the people here, it’s as if there was no cyclone/typhoon. It’s hot and sunny and there’s electricity and (painfully slow yet working) internet.
As I mentioned in my brief post yesterday, we really had no idea how big the [...]
