Mandalay Division Vacations, Mandalay Division Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Today we can sleep late, our alarmclock isn’t supposed to sound before 7.45 a.m.. Trudy, however, has risen and shined well before that time and opens the window to let in some fresh air at 7.15 and it doesn’t take long before I am brutally yanked from dreamland by car horns in the streets below. We take our time for breakfast and leave the hotel around nine. In front of the hotel a trishaw driver adresses us, offering his services. He asks where we want to go and we tell him we want to …

The second week of my trip in Myanmar I visited the country's second largest city. The city of Mandalay, situated somewhere in the middle of the country. This city holds a lot of interesting sites like Mandalay Hill and Mandalay Palace, and some places worth checking out in it's proximity, like Mingun, Sagaing and Amarapura.. At the beginning of the trip to Myanmar I made the wise decision to take enough dollars in cash with me because initially I heard that it was hard to get cash…

10/7/06 This morning we left Taungoo for the 270 mile drive to Inle Lake. Based on yesterday's drive, we figured that this should be another six to eight hour journey. Boy were we wrong! Things started off well enough with good weather as we cruised out of Taungoo through the broad, green countryside - there were even big splotches of blue amidst the puffy white clouds. We knew things were headed south when we started passing a huge line of trucks parked on the side of the road. I asked M…

We kunnen vandaag uitslapen, dus heb ik de wekker pas om 07:45 uur gezet. Trudy is echter al eerder wakker en zet om 07:15 het raam open zodat het maar heel kort duurt voor ik ook wakker getoeterd wordt. We gaan op ons gemak ontbijten en gaan tegen 09:00 uur de stad in. Voor het hotel worden we aangeschoten door een jonge trishaw rijder die vraagt waar we naar toe willen. We willen naar de voet van Mandalay Hill om daar een aantal pagodes te bezoeken en hij vraagt 4000 Kyats. Ik zeg dat we gi…