Pyin Oo Lwin - postcollonial and multicultural

Ola and  Gabrysia are getting at work today:   I think we both were well-behaved and were again invited to contribute to this blog. The twelfth day of the trip. After an exhausting day yesterday - a moment of breath. We are visiting a small mountain town (1200 m above sea level) Pyin Oo Lwin lyi...

Mingun, , Amarapura and the bridge U Bein

Today Wanda and Paweł: Mandalay welcomed us on this very busy day, with a chill of the morning (which was quite surprising as we were warned to expect the heat from the early morning). The first item on today’s agenda was a cruise on Myanmar’s largest river – Ayeyarwaddy, to the village named Min...

To Mandalay

Today is our turn: After three days on Lake Inle, it was time to continue the journey. Towards the north of Myanmar, the former capital - Mandalay. The British, when fully colonized the country in 1885, moved the capital to Yangon and named it Rangoon. Before departure we made a morning visit to ...

Pindaya - the images of the Buddha

A visit Pindaya - in the cave of 8800 thousands of the Buddha images is being described today by Ola and Gabrysia: A word from Gabriela and Ola: Thank you for the invitation to contribute to this blog. It is going to be grammatically inaccurate and not on the subject, we are afraid. After a week ...

Yangon - the temples

Today, on Saturday, Eva and Magda are describing their experience of two consecutive days: Last night we saw the most beautiful pagoda in Myanmar and maybe even the entire Buddhist world - the Shewgadon. The Golden pagoda towers were visible from the windows of our landing airplain. How much gold,...

Bangkok - life of the metropolis

Today Hania and Olek created the entry: After the adventure on the canals of the river Chao Phraya, which lasted approx. 2 hours, when the monitor lizards almost ate us up ... we reached the restaurant River Vibe, where on the terrace ot the 6th floor there was waiting for us a real feast dining r...

Bangkok - the world of Buddhism

According to the agreement wiith f the participants ot the trip - everybody (including 7 pairs) are involved in the creation of this blog: taking photos of the day and preparing an appropriate text. Let's see if this idea will appeal to zaglądającym here. Ata and Bogdan begin this cycle: Today - ...

To Bangkok!

To start the holiday and be able to eat the famed octopus (let PIS finds out!), we flew several thousands kilometers full of optimism, although a little tired of traveling. To be continued...