Again in Yangon

After the mornings' chill in the Inle Lake area we are getting into the tiring heat of Yangon. This time we are sightseeing this city in daytime and we conclude that it is an amazing mixture of all the Asian colours, which strongly impact our eyes. This bustling, noisy, filled with ...

The people and their matters 1

1. A weekly market Once a week in each of five villages on the lake's coast takes pkace a market We went there with Mr Thun Thun across the lake in his boat and just after an hour we found ourselves amongst a colourful crowd of the locals and tourists from all over the world. ...

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...