Inle Lake 1

1. Around Nyaung Shwe     First a 30-minute flight form Nyaung OO to Heho with a meal on board.    Then a 60-minute taxi ride to Nyaung Shwe where a nice surprise awaited us. There happend to the best hotel so far during our trip. With a nice name "Amazin...

Market in the town of Nyaung OO

We got cyckling at the market in the town of Nyaung-OO not far from Bagan. The morning traffic was relatively heavy. All vehicles used here were out in the streets: horse carts, buses, hundreds of motorbikes and bicycles. All of them were forming an "organized" chaos. We  arrived th...

Bagan - an archeological site

Bagan is the main tourist attraction in Myanmar. Until today over 2000 out of 13000 pagodas and temples remain well preserved. We have been visiting over a dozen of them cruising Bagan on bikes which was a challenge for itself on deep sand dirt roads. In the evening tourists take an...

Yangon

It's very difficult to write something about this city after having spent here a late evening and a short night. Our flight to  Bagan is at 6 am! Let's remember that Myanmar is still one of the poorest countries in the world and unfortunately, it is easily noticable. Somehow people don'...

From Kuala Lumpur to Yangon

Early afternoon we are flying Air Asia off to Yangon (Mayanmar - Burma). We are not expecting any surprises. Except one. We might find difficulty in accessing the Internet! When it comes to its worst, we will have to part until 13th December when we will have arrived i...

Kuala Lumpur - a little capital of multiple cultures

Little, because it has bearly 2 - 3 million people, but it distinguishes itself with a mixture  of rases, cultures, and religions. Those interested I'd refer to the Wikipedia where you could read a little more about the  history of the metropolis in which all the Asian cul...

More ugly surprises

Flight - Kuala Lumpur, surprise no. 2 and no.3  We left Phuket Patong Beach early afternoon in full sunshine and we arrived at the airport in rain but before the check-in was completed a monsoon rainfall was at its best. Time for the ugly surprise no.2: Security control reveiled in our...

Phuket FantaSea - The Ultimate Cultural Theme ParkIt's called a theme park but to be honest it's a hudge shopping mall called by themselves Shopping Paradise. Unfortunately, the prices are not paradise ones (if there are prices att all). The craziness od

It's called a theme park but to be honest it's a hudge shopping mall called by the Thai themselves Shopping Paradise. Unfortunately, the prices are not paradise ones (if there are prices att all). The craziness od shopping runs paralelly to watching some the theme park's attractions, and t...