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Travel Day 1147 – Mandalay, MYANMAR Yesterday I had wondered what the sights were in Mandalay, but today I had at least a little bit of an idea… To be fair, when I was reading my guide on the much too long bus ride yesterday, I already got the clue that Mandalay was not really […]
Travel Day 1146 – Bagan to Mandalay, MYANMAR After spending so many wonderful days in Bagan, it was unfortunately time to move on and see a little bit more of Myanmar… Instead of going towards Inle Lake first, as most travelers seemed to do, I rather opted for going north to Mandalay. For some reason […]
Travel Day 1145 – Bagan and Mount Popa, MYANMAR After not being too concerned about the nat before, today we decided to visit the pilgrimage site of Mount Popa on a day trip… Mount Popa was really only about 50 km away from Bagan and it was famous for its Buddhist temples and nat shrines. […]
Travel Day 1144 – Bagan, MYANMAR Seeing all the temples of Bagan inside and out was definitely an amazing experience, but they were actually also impressive at night… By now I had spent four days in Bagan, exploring all the temples, and if time would have permitted, it would have been nice to stay even […]
Travel Day 1143 – Bagan, MYANMAR While the red brick temples in the green fields of Bagan were an absolutely fascinating sight, the interior of the temples was interesting as well… During our first day in Bagan we had already learned that the temples were actually all hollow structures, in various states of repair and […]
Travel Day 1142 – Bagan, MYANMAR Bagan was absolutely amazing, it was simply stunning and yet it was not a UNESCO enlisted World Heritage site… When we climbed some temples yesterday and got a little bit of an overview of what the area of Bagan had to offer, we were simply in disbelieve. There were […]
Travel Day 1141 – Yangon to Bagan, MYANMAR After the more than underwhelming arrival in Yangon, Bagan appeared to be a very different animal, but it came to a certain price… While I normally like to spend at least 3 days in the first place of arrival in a new country, Yangon had made it […]
Travel Day 1140 – Yangon to Bagan, MYANMAR It was my Arrival Day in Myanmar and I was only waking up to the realization that something had to be done… The hotel I was staying at came recommended by other travellers because it was supposed to have a 10 USD dorm room. Technically it did […]
Travel Day 1139 – Bangkok to Yangon, MYANMAR Since all my preparations in Bangkok had worked out in the end, I finally found myself on the way towards this somewhat mysterious and unknown country called Myanmar… But first, getting to the airport was not as smooth and easy as it had been when I was […]
Travel Day 1137-38 – Bangkok, THAILAND After treating my wound from the past at the Bumrungrad Hospital yesterday, today I had to look at the future and start preparations for my visit in Myanmar… Luckily I had taken care of all the visa formalities for Myanmar back in July when I first arrived in Bangkok. […]
Travel Day 1136 – Bangkok, THAILAND While I had really enjoyed my stay in Sri Lanka, unfortunately I had left the country with a little souvenir I never wanted, an infected wound on my foot… This infected wound had started pretty harmlessly as a simple scratch back in Anuradhapura and over time it had become […]
Travel Day 1135 – Galle to Bangkok, THAILAND It was already my last day in Sri Lanka but I still liked to see and learn a little bit more about the amazing UNESCO Fortress City of Galle… Initially I had wanted to venture a little bit around Galle and maybe see some stilt-fishermen along the […]
Travel Day 1134 – Galle, SRI LANKA After exploring all of the defensive fortifications and looking for Portuguese traces of Galle yesterday, today I much rather focused on the Dutch colonial houses… Obviously there were still a lot of colonnaded Dutch colonial houses within the UNESCO enlisted Old Town of Galle and it almost seemed […]