Lake Inle 3

Over a hundred thousands people live on the water in stilt-houses.  There are four large villages on the lake and a dozen samller ones surrounding the big ones. Actually, looking at the pictures there's no need for their descrioption. The villages on the water live according to the ...

Lake Inle 2

2. Working on Inle Lake The lake provides a living to hundreds of thousands inhabitans of central-eastern Myanmar. First, we would like to show what their work looks like, however spectacular in the pictures, hard to all the people who have no access to contemporary technology. Wron...

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...