A Bangkok view from the top

Tired of the last day in Bangkok decided odetchąć slightly cooler and fresher (false) air at the 61st floor of the Banyan Tree Hotel.The bar has a significant name "Moon Bar". And again, we were watching another sunset. Prices also look like from the moon, but the customers fairly down to earth... ...

Back to Bangkok

Nice are the returns to Bangkok, where all is well know and we can feel at home. However, not everything is the same. We'd never been in Thailand in March (closer to the middle of the month), and we have known not yet such high temparatures and humidity. Today it was above 35 C, and very, very "wet...

Farewell to Myanmar

After eight days in Myanmar, it's time to say goodbye and return to Bangkok. We are flying from Mandalay and now using the opportunity to make final entries of the last days and put in the pictures. With great pleasure qe are sharing with you our impressions, even though we know that not everything ...

Again in Bagan

We came back after 4 days to the twentieth century!) From the nineteenth, eighteenth and the Middle Ages !! Those who do not believe, please keepm reading.  In a moment we will resume the entries. We are tired, but happy to have been given a chance of seeing those people in their normal life, and ...

Mindat

From the Wikipedia: “Mindat is one of the British administrative towns during British time and also the second largest town in Chin State. It is situated on the mountain range at an altitude of 2500m. Most Chin villages located on the hill sides and in the valleys of the Chin mountain ranges. Most ...

Over the mountains towards Mindat

And again we hit the road ... This time, up into the mountains and the valley towards Mindat - the biggest city in the southern state of China. Along the way we see villages which function in accordance with the centuries-old tradition and can be compared with medieval Europe. We think that the p...

A-camp at night

In the A-camp village, in the lodge there was five tourists altogether. The owner fixed a show of a traditional dance usually performed at great occasions such as funerals, harvests or sacrifice ceremonies. Apparently we were considered very important guests. Animism and Christianity mix together...

A-camp Village in the afternoon

Have a look at today’s life in a village named A-camp (after a British military base in World War II; there’s also a village named B-camp), high up in the mountains. In the village our guide’s father runs a lodge for both foreign and Burmese tourists for whom Chin State is as exotic.