Strolling around Yangon’s downtown busy streets it’s not hard to miss the evidence of 19th century British Burma. Standing between modern city buildings is an open air museum of old British Colonial architecture, the largest collection in South East Asia. Hidden behind the grandeur of majestic European design mixed with Continue Reading
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Golden Yangon – A City of Pagodas and Giant Buddha’s
Situated on top of Sanguttara Hill, the 99 meter high Shwedagon Pagoda is the crown jewel of Yangon and the most sacred Buddhist Pagoda in Myanmar. The Pagoda that is rumoured to be more than 2,600 years old is said to be the oldest Buddhist stupa in the world. We Continue Reading
3 Day Trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake
[no_toc] In my previous post I talked about how we chose a trekking agency, packing tips and more. In this post I will share the experience of our 3 day trek starting in Kalaw and finishing in Nyaungshwe in Inle Lake. We had arrived on the overnight bus from Yangon Continue Reading
Trekking from Kalaw to Inle Lake – How we chose a trekking agency, packing tips and more…
[no_toc] Stepping off the night bus at 3am, we were greeted by cooler weather, darkness, utter silence and one lone motorcycle taxi. Within 20 minutes we were all cosy in bed at our accommodation at Thitlaw II. Kalaw is a popular starting point for trekking, the town itself is elevated Continue Reading
Diving the Similan Islands
[no_toc] Lovely beaches, low key resorts and great scuba diving pretty much sums up the lesser known and quieter coastal strip of Khao Lak just north of Phuket on the Andaman coast. Khao Lak was our boarding point for a 3 night/4 day dive safari to the Similan Islands which Continue Reading