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Travel Day 1160 – Hsipaw to Nyaungshwe, MYANMAR No matter how hard I tried, the unavoidable had to happen again and I found myself once more in a terrible night bus… So far the longer I had been travelling over the years, the more I learned to take care of myself. That meant instead of […]
Travel Day 1159 – Hsipaw, MYANMAR Coming back into Hsipaw through the rice fields yesterday and realizing how nice the hike in the area had actually been, I decided to stay another day… Initially the idea had been to move on rather quickly and to use the remaining time to also do a hike in […]
Travel Day 1158 – Pankam Village to Hsipaw, MYANMAR After quite a good night of sleep in our little bamboo hut we had to make sure to be up early to see the feeding of the monks… Actually we were already woken up in the middle of the night as it seemed when the old […]
Travel Day 1157 – Hsipaw to Pankam Village, MYANMAR After our long but exciting train ride across the Gokteik Viaduct yesterday, we were luckily still able to arrange a Palaung village hike… The popular guesthouse we were staying at in Hsipaw offered personalized guided hikes to the surrounding Shan or Palaung villages. These offers ranged […]
Travel Day 1156 – Pyin Oo Lwin to Hsipaw, MYANMAR It would have been really great to spend more time in Pyin Oo Lwin with its colonial charm and Indian culture, but unfortunately it was already time to move on… In this case moving on meant catching a train to Hsipaw, further north-east and right […]
Travel Day 1155 – Pyin Oo Lwin, MYANMAR The exploration of Pyin Oo Lwin had been great yesterday, but besides its British colonial architecture, this small town was famous for something else… Pyin Oo Lwin was also famous for its vast botanical garden and the picturesque, classical horse buggies. In Bagan I had already seen […]
Travel Day 1154 – Mandalay to Pyin Oo Lwin, MYANMAR Visiting Shwebo had been a very special experience, but arriving in the British colonial hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin simply felt outlandish and surreal… After my extremely nice lunch invitation yesterday in Shwebo, I had left town on the last bus departing for Mandalay. While […]
Travel Day 1153 – Shwebo to Mandalay, MYANMAR In fact, as I had to notice again today, Shwebo was a really interesting place to visit, even it wasn’t quite worth a trip for its touristic sights… It was almost hard to believe that Shwebo had been once the royal capital of Myanmar and nowadays only […]
Travel Day 1152 – Katha to Shwebo, MYANMAR After such a refreshingly nice day yesterday with all the friendly village kids, today we were already off and down the Ayeyarwady River… Unfortunately we were already off at 5am and in complete darkness, but since there was only one fast boat leaving per day, we simply […]
Travel Day 1151 – Katha, MYANMAR Katha was actually quite an interesting, unspoiled local place and how untouristic is was we came already to realize once we arrived yesterday evening… When the trishaw dropped us off by the Ayeyarwady River, we found ourselves in front of three house-like hotels, apparently the only three hotels in […]
Travel Day 1150 – Mandalay to Katha, MYANMAR Initially the intent was to go all the way up north to Myitkyina and then take a slow boat back to Mandalay, but there seemed to be a few problems with that idea… First of all to reach Myitkyina there were only two options, catching an expensive […]
Travel Day 1149 – Mandalay and Amarapura, MYANMAR My exploration of the Mandalay area continued today, but I went even further south and instead of using a bicycle, it was time to use a pick-up… So far I hadn’t used any pick-ups at all, although they were probably the most common means of transport in […]
Travel Day 1148 – Mandalay, MYANMAR Since riding a bike through Mandalay had been a great experience yesterday, I decided to continue exploring more on two wheels today… There were a few listed monasteries and temples further south in Mandalay and it seemed easy enough to visit them while pedaling along some other neighborhoods of […]