Myanmar Travel Blogs

In preparation of our long flight today we sleep late, we get up at 7.30 a.m. and take our time for breakfast. To end our holiday in style Trudy has caught another case of the runs this morning, but fortunately she doesn’t really feel sick. The warm breakfast buffet of the Panorama Hotel has soun…

At 7 AM, all of us were already up and ready to go to the airport. By 7:30 AM, we were already at the airport. By 8:00 AM, we were already got our plane seats confirmed. By 8:30 AM, we were already relieved to pass the immigration gate.. until we realized we had no breakfast. Also, thinking tha…

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia) As our Thai visas were about to expire, Julia and I went for a day trip to Kawthoung in Myanmar to extend them. It was a pretty simple task, which involved taking a sawngthaew to Thai imigration, receiving an exit stamp, ta…

We slapen uit vandaag, de wekker loopt pas om 08:00 af. Trudy is vannacht als afsluiting van de vakantie aan de diaree geraakt, maar is er gelukkig niet echt ziek van. Het warme ontbijtbuffet van het Panorama hotel, heeft een paar weken lang er aantrekkelijk geklonken, maar vandaag hebben we er all…

monday, 7am: we packed up early and went with our travel agent. it was the same scene as yesterday. only this time, there were more people. tourists, locals, they were all around. the airlines were open! woohoo!!the only problem was, our supposedly 10am flight delayed (again!) for three hours.…

Shootz from the land that will change you inside. The people and their culture.

I am yet to complete my blog entry for my trip on Myanmar, but i decided to write this small entry/plea  already.I landed on Yangon,Myanmar and was put on awe with its beauty,the land is rich in culture and the burmese people are one of the warmest people i ever met.This week i left Yangon in …

Being in Myanmar is like being in a dream.  I have just awoken, having arrived in Bangkok.  Everything seems so easy here compared to Myanmar.  But the charm of Myanmar can't be matched.  These people have endured so much, including colonialism and multiple military dictatorship…

Min Min and Min Ko picked us up at the hotel after breakfast for a final little tour of some additional sites in Yangon before they dropped us off at the airport.  We climbed into our trusty, dilapidated Hyundai one last time and went off to see some famous White Elephants (sorry no pix, appar…

      It’s difficult not to be political about Myanmar.  Not when the whole time I was there, I can’t access the internet nor avail of international publications (except for the Singapore Straits Times. which I’m sorry to say isn’t really my idea of in-depth rep…

I'd a chance to visit Yangon 1 week before bomb blasts happened in Rangoon(April, 2005)so I'm feeling very sad that this teriible situation should happen to the burmese people who're very nice and friendly >__< Before my trip, everybody warns me not to go to Myanmar as it's kind of not safe to visit but after 4 days in Yangon. I've learned the contrary. I've only met nice people there.Hope to come back to travel in Burma again :)

We left Bagan on the overnight bus to Yangon.  We stayed at the Motherland Inn 2 where we relaxed with Mark and Kim before they went back to Bangkok.  We then got permits to travel to Pathein but unfortunately when we arrived there were only two hotels allowing foreigners to stay, one sme…

i can't say enough about this trip. the second best i have ever taken. sometimes you just are at the right place at the right time. i traveled there for longest period allowed, 28 days. before that i was in south america for two months on my own. i wasn't having the best luck meeting people until i got to burma where i met some great friends from all over the world. i think we bonded so well partly because of who we are, and in part because of that amazing country and it's beautiful people.

A few photos from Labutta, one of the worst hit parts of Burma following Cyclone Nargis.

After taking the whole of 26 Oct travelling back to Yangon and seeing all the Pagodas and Buddhas i can take for the week, I've decided to go to a small town across the Yangon river to see other things. I paid USD1 for a 20min ferry ride across the man-made carnal... the water is as chaotic as …