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Wildrover

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Howdy all

 Its been a while since I have been on here, have noticed a few bm's mentioning Burma so thought i will give the lowdown and offer some advice on the practicalities of my trip there at Christmas. In terms of the ladies.. very little to report, there was one cute lb/fb working in a hair salon in Bagan where we both had a mutual fondle but they are quite thin on the ground and the fact that homosexuality is illegal was always in the back of my mind (a Norwegian was jailed for 5 years in 2007 for an encounter with the same gender, although, i believe things are becoming more progressive)

Nevertheless Myanmar/Burma is an excellent destination for a refreshing break.

Here is the first excerpt of some observations, which i have already posted on another forum

 

Anyhow, after 10 days in Patts i felt a change of scenery was in order. It was busy as hell in Patts at xmas time so just needed to chill out and do something completely different. Only negative is that there are damn all ladyboys in Burma but you cant have everything! First things first was to get my visa sorted. In BKK the visa can be got in one day if you show them a ticket you are flying the following day to Burma... otherwise you have to go back the following day to collect. Supposedly they recommend you get down early in the morning. but this all began to sound like a pain in the arse to me so i went to a travel agency right next to Apsara massage on soi 4 and they would do everything for 2,200 baht, queue up at the embassy and i could collect it a few days later. Perfect for an extra 1,000 baht (as normal cost is 850 baht but add the travel costs on top never mind the fcuking about) i could go to Patts and then pick up before i left.
Next thing to sort is cash,remember that you need crisp dollar bills. Take 100s mostly, Take some 50s and 20s which are useful for paying for accommodation. There are now some atm machines that do allow withdrawals but best to bring enough cash. I brought approx 1,000 dollars for 10 days and that was fine. If your dollars even have the slightest mark on them most places wont accept them. I got my crisp dollars in BKK in Superrich money exchange 300 metres down soi 22 on the right opposite a huge hotel i cant remember the name of. Check your bills very carefully and tell them you are going to Burma as they know the story and dont be afraid to return a bill with a nick on it.

I booked with Air Asia, direct to the Northern city of Mandalay, there are only 4 flights a week direct at the moment, otherwise need to book seperate journeys to Yangon and then Mandalay. The flight is a morning flight (approx 10.a.m), the advantage of having the visa in hand is that you could go straight from Patts to Don Muang airport. So, I hopped on the big bird and had a most enjoyable flight... not only was the scenery top notch but the Air Asia cabin crew are gorgeous.. wearing tight fitting jeans and sexy red tops. The flight travelled over some pristine jungle scenery as it crossed the thai Border towards the Shan hills. In one of the pictures below you will see a beautiful curving river called the Salaween river, which used to mark the border between Thailand and Burma although this frontier has since  moved westwards although the Shan and Karen peoples bare little allegiance it seems to the Myanmar government. The Salaween river flows from the Himalaya and down through Yunnan province in China, one of only 2 major free flowing rivers in that country. Hence the desire to construct massive dams across it much to the annoyance of Myanmar and Thailand who have their own plans to dam further down. Anyhow the views over this stretch of jungle were stunning and it makes one fearful of the future as logging companies inevitably encroach. After 1hr 40 we began our descent into Mandalay... tip, sit on the left hand side and you will be treated to magnificent views of the sacred town of Sagaing with its innumerable golden pagodas which litter its hillside. It has to be one the best descents i have experienced. You will see why the call Myanmar/Burma the land of the golden pagodas. Sagaing lies just ouside of Mandalay and in the opinion of many visitors, Mandalay is more worth visiting for the attractions in the surrounding area as opposed to the city itself.

So we land in a small airport 35kms from Mandalay itself and i am full of excitement for the 10 days ahead. First thing is to change money, Now as you leave the baggage hall you will see a currency exchange.. dont use the one in front of you, 3 reasons, the rate is not great and secondly the queue is long and thirdly the guy try to shortchange me of 6,000 Myanmar chat ($8) As its appox 860 chat to the dollar, sometimes best to have the calculator on the phone ready. As you exit arrivals there is another exchange where the rate is a little bit better. I changed 300 USD and ended up with a wad of notes... ask them for 5,000 and some 1,000 chat bills as he gave me 1,000 and 500; It was ridiculous although it was funny trying to hide them in the bottom of my suitcase, i used to unzip the inner lining and place these wads there, just like in Scarface or something. Not a cent taken from any hotel room btw... very trustworthy.
I ended up sharing a mini bus with 2 chatty gay oriental californian guys - one of them Laotian-American could have looked well in a dress.  On the trip into Mandalay one is struck immediately by the glow from the sun, teak houses, all the women wearing longyi (sarong), the slower pace of life (lots of bicycles, Ox- drawn ploughs etc) and complete lack of western brands  or advertising hoardings. Its a refreshing change - i hope it lasts as long as possible. I was staying in the Universe hotel right in the centre of Mandalay - what a great sounding name of a city but as has been mentioned before, more evocative in name than in reality. I believe Kipling (not that i have read any of his writings except the one poem we all know) talked about the 'road to Mandalay' but he never visited, although other writers such as George Orwell did. The Universe hotel is a Chinese owned hotel and is populated mainly by Chinese workers who live 3/4 to a room and have a lovely penchant for living the doors of their rooms open so you can hear that romantic sound of them clearing their throat every few minutes. Haacccgggghhh!!

The owner is very friendly and they have a couple of super cute gg's working in reception... its all very innocent but nice all the same, glances and little smiles and giggles between them. Soi 6 it is not. So off i go for a stroll outside, one big bonus in Mandalay at xmas time is the weather, 27 degrees and not sticky at all. Off for a stroll among the dusty roads and its like going back in time 30/40 years, the locals carrying pots on their heads and the men using old tools as they hammer away banging some old piece of metal into shape. I am amazed by the faces i see, i encounter brown faces, many with beards and it seems like i am in Bangladesh or Calcutta. i found out later that my part of town was the Indian area, with lots of mosques and a few very colourful sikh and hindu temples. They all seem to get on quite well together and over lunch i ask an old muslim man in his 70s about the city and his origins. Older people and the univeristy educated are the only people who really speak any sort of decent English so this man gave me a good insight. He said that his family are living here generations but there are other Indians (this term includes Bangladeshis) who were encouraged to come here by the British when they kicked the King out in 1882, and were brought in to administer the civil service and keep the trade flowing. Supposedly Indians accounted for around 40% of the population of the capital Yangon when WWII broke out. After the war the Burmese repatriated many Indians but a large community still remains. Hence the country can be better seen as a patchwork of ethnicities and regions as opposed to a homogenised state. The northern Kachin people see themselves as more akin to Chinese than Burmese, therefore explaining why there have been so many rebel movements seeking independence.

After lunch i hopped on a moped (they are thousands of them everywhere and the riders are waiting on every corner - you cant miss them, they are usually half pissed and stoned with their brown stained teeth from chewing the Betel leaf. Regardless they can drive the moped alright and for around 3,500 chat (£3 gbp) you can get them for the whole afternoon to drive you about! This is completley necessary as the first thing you will see is the massive royal palace that occupies central Mandalay, 2.5km long on each side surrounded by a giant moat. When on the back of the moped and  you see this complex you really get a buzz that you are in somewhere exotic and very different. I went to see some of the famous temples in the north east corner of the city. Had a nice chat with 3 monks (pictured below) they were graduating with their degree in theology the following day and were very welcoming and inquisitive in a good way. In the picture they didnt smile, which is the case with a lot of Burmese people, they are smiling all day long and once you take a picture they suddenly dont!. After an hour at these temples we went up the famous Mandalay Hill which has very impressive views of the region. I enjoyed the trip up on the moped but was surprised by the amount of western tourists up there. Most were in big tour groups, which i can understand considering the country is only opening up but i met many old western tourists doing it independently which i think is the way to go. After i got home, i met up with a Burmese chap who is a friend of a friend, nothing hectic just some Chinese food (i didnt think the food was great in general and found the chinese restaurants to be a decent option) and a quite beer... found the local beer to be nice, originally entitled 'Myanmar'  and comes in massive 640 ml bottles and costs about £1gbp. No wild nights here and bring your ear plugs as people awake early over here.
More to come
Regards

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Wildrover thanks for posting the pics, it got me thinking about the enjoyable time I spent in Myanmar in February. I also flew in via Mandalay and was also lucky to get the window seat on the left hand side(the plane from Bangkok does a big u turn over the city). Unfortunately i did not get any LB action, but in the time i spent there i did see one in Bagan and three in Yangon. The one in Bagan was really rough as you can see in the pic. On my first night in Yangon I ran into a couple near the lake in the pic below and although I got the feeling they would have been p4p the language barrier made it impossible to make any arrangements. the fourth LB I came across was near the Sule pagoda, she was very attractive but looked like she had a boyfriend. apparently there had been a big cleanup of massage parlors and brothels and the only place I could find for p4p was the bar at park royal hotel(about 15 gg) but I'm guessing traders hotel would be the same. If there was more info on the Yangon LB scene its one place I wouldn't mind returning to.

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Cheers for the comments guys. Nice photos there J... you are putting me to shame! lol

Will Continue on some more info on Mandalay and surrounding area

Mandalay as i mentioned is a strange sort of city. It has no obvious centre as the massive royal palace 2.5km square surrounded by a moat seems to have taken its place. Very little remains of the old palace and what you see in the photos above is more of a modern reconstruction as it took a pounding after the Japanese used it as one of their main bases in WWII. The old King who used to reside here was shunted off in the late 19th century by the British, off to a remote corner of India.

In terms of a nightlife its pretty much non-existent from what i could make out (Yangon has a bit more to offer but still limited) and mostly consisted of drinking large bottles of decent local beet watching Southampton versus Sunderland (no offence intended to fans of either team).  Sightseeing is certainly the order of the day here and in terms of that, this area does not disappoint. Hopping on the back of a moped and speeding along the stunning lakes dotted with golden temples is certainly a highlight. A trip to nearby Ubein bridge is almost mandatory and whilst touristy, it still is a magical place, being the longest teak bridge in the world, apparently. The monks who continually stream along the bridge certainly make it very photogenic. I am not a die hard camera enthusiast but its hard not to get snapping being surrounded by this viewscape.

I was taken around to the bridge and the nearby sacred hill of Sagaing by a number of young medical students who have set up their own travel agency called Royal road. You can see pictures of the lads below and their business card with their details. I would highly recommend the lads Ye and Thet (calls himself Ted, as in Father) to guide you around, they speak excellent English which is a bit of a rarity i found and will give you some very good insights into the country and its culture. Cant remember how much i made but if you are going to Mandalay, pm me and i will let the lads know to look after you. Very kind chaps, invited me to a family birthday one of the evenings where i had the best food of the trip in a Chinese restaurant.... Chinese owned restaurants seems to be where the decent grub is at. The only other fairly good place i found was in cental Mandalay called BBB (one more B than our very own!). I tried the local side of the road haunts which were dead cheap but a bit too bland and greasy for my liking. I thought a country sandwiched between India, China and Thailand would have come up trumps in that department but imo for some reason doesnt. However it other respects Burma excels.

The sacred hill town of Sagaing about 10km out of Mandalay is definitely worth a trip. The whole hill side is just covered in golden pagodas and monasteries (no private housing allowed)  and had brilliant views over the Irrawaddy river, one of Asia's longest. As you look out from the hill you will see two impressive bridges. The one furthest to the right was built by the British just before the war and which they had to part destroy due the oncoming Japanese. The ancient royal capital of Ava is located just beyond this bridge and is on the tourist circuit too but still worth having a peek.

All in all, the Mandalay area is well worth spending some time in. I would have liked to travel further up north towards Shan state but as its a country with poor infrastructure, time is certainly needed for such an undertaking.

After 4 days around Mandalay i took the boat down river to Bagan - a lovely 10 hour trip which was also very chilled until I met  a Mancunian and a fellow Irish man and proceeded to get hammered on the local brew. I had no hotel booked in Bagan and its not easy looking for a hotel in that state, but thats all part of the fun of it. Will fill in on Bagan and the one ladyboy that i found there in the next update

Regards

 

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Beautiful, absolutely stunning and beautiful pix, especially the second last one which is more than National Geographic worthy. Fantastic thread Wildrover. Much appreciated.

Cheers for the Sam, glad you are enjoying it. The quality of light in central Myanmar is something to behold, seems to me those latitudes a bit away from the equator really seem to bask in it.

Will fill in some more details tomorrow 

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Yeah-great report and great pics WR....i second what siam sam said......Manc Paddies everywhere WR........you just can't avoid em.....Was he of the Mayo variety?

 

He wasnt Willie... i have to branch out a little on my hols! 

 

Have been a bit busy the past week so havent managed to update this report. I will continue with a description of Bagan.

It is Burma's picture postcard destination, their Big draw and imo it doesnt disappoint .. i found it fascinating and best of all, it has yet to be overrun with millions of Koreans and Japanese tourists.  Bagan has over 2000 temples covering 16 square miles, dating back to the 12th and 13th century. Apparently there were 4,000 before Genghis Khan and his horde paid a visit.

There are 3 main places to stay whilst visiting Bagan: Old bagan, new Bagan and the river port of Nyaung U.  The more expensive places to stay are out in Old and new Bagan but if you want to save a few quid stay in Nyaung U, I stayed in the New life guesthouse, twin room for i think 35 Usd per night for a fairly basic but acceptable and clean room. The government taxes the hell out of the hotels so that is why there are relatively expensive when compared to some other S.E asian countries.

Nyaung U is also where the one and only ladyboy in the area is to be found!  I will give directions later.

In terms of time I would say 3 full days is what you ideally need to get the most out of Bagan. You see people trying to cover all the sights and temples in a day and imo its a load of bollocks as you cant get a feel for the place and it ends being a box ticking exercise. I would recommend people to hire out a bike for at least 1 day, I found it to be by far the best way to explore and it was great fun too. You can hire bikes all over the place - just make sure to give them a good test ride as mine fell apart on the second day. The brilliant thing about the bike is that you can just go off road, rambling around and you will literally have the place to yourself. I didnt see a single person for over 3 hours and had the temples completely to myself. There are about 10 main temples but these are fairly thronged with mini-vans, camera wielding tourists and locals trying to flog 'authentic craftwork'.  At the end of the day you can climb inside a number of the quieter, off the beaten track temples and watch the fantastic sunsets. On my last night i got a couple of large bottles of beer and got a taxi for 10 dollars to one of the temples and watched the sun go down, chatting to a nice french gg tourist and then after an hour or two the taxi man brought me back. There is an 80 metre look out tower to watch the sunsets, but i think its an abomination and wouldnt bother my arse with that, much better as i said to keep a keen eye out for one or two people sitting on top of the temples (otherwise you wont be able to identify which temples you can climb to the top of) and go there instead. I would divide the temples into eastern and western zones, cover one each day on the bike, it gets hot during the middle of the day so take a siesta from 1 till 3. 

Evening entertainment is rather limited, Nyaung U being the most lively of the 3 places that people stay in. There are only local bars where everyone just watches the premier league every night -  there are none worth mentioning, however the restaurants  are pretty decent, there are 2 good ones on the main street more or less opposite to the grand empire hotel. After dinner one evening, i was having a bit of a stroll when i noticed a long haired lady working in a hair salon. Her bum was a bit different than the normal pert ones i had observed over the previous week. Immediately the radar was on to it and i had to investigate further. I thought how the hell am i going to break the ice, i didnt need a haircut as already had one a week before. Anyhow i ventured in, she spoke little English but was very cute, i bumbled something about a hair cut. I introduced myself with a handshake, which lingered for a while, she then invited into the back part of the 'salon'. I was a bit paranoid as you could see right in to the salon from outside and i was thinking of that Norwegian guy who was jailed in 2007 for 5 years for homeosexual activity. It is still technically illegal but i believer now it is rarely enforced. However it was in the back of my mind all the time (as i was stroking the outside of his jeans and him doing likewise!) Some more pulling and grabbing ensued, had a brief smooch and then made my excuses and said i would be back to see her tomorrow. 

She was more of femboy than a lb but was very passable. If any of you want a walk on the wild side, go to the Grand Empire hotel on the main road in Nyaung U. If you were standing on the steps of the hotel, with your back to the hotel you would go left   (in the direction of old Bagan) and cross over to the other side of the road. Walk along for what i estimate to be 200 metres, passing the 2 decent and busy restaurants which are situated side by side.  Keep an eye out for a hair salon on your right and with a bit of luck you can meet up with herself. The salon is basically one room and i would imagine she works there every day. 

 

The only other transsexual activity i came across whilst in Burma was that of the Nat spirit worship. This is particularly strong around central Burma, where men dress up as women and dance feverishly to music and enter a trance-like (pun not intended) state and screech like a dog who has caught his balls in a door. The quality of these nats is pretty poor, a bit like the hijra in India and i would not imagine of interest to anyone on the forum. The nearby Mount Popa is the most sacred place to the Nats (and many Buddhists too) but i would advise against visiting this place, as it is a tourist racket which is full of little monkeys who have crapped all over the place and you get hassled by locals every 2 steps you take climbing up the hill.

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All the best

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Thank you Wildrover for a terrific report. Very well done with excellent pictures. 

 

It took me back to my visit to Pagan (it was always Pagan back then, not Bagan) in 1976. I don't remember any nice restaurants or minivans or bars or hotels even. We stayed in guesthouses & ate at very basic stalls with a couple of tables & chairs & very limited menus. This was before the big earthquake hit sometime last century that damaged most of the remaining pagodas. I believe the Japanese funded a repair program but they might have only been part of it. I could google it but it's not a big deal, at least there are plenty still standing.

 

It was in Pagan I took ill. Fever, dysentery, dehydration, the usual sort of thing you get from bad hygiene or dirty water. This led me to visit the local doctor. I will never forget it. His surgery... er, room, was a free standing classroom-type building. Inside there was no reception area, no seats for anyone waiting, you waited outside sitting on the grass...  er, ground. I went in & the doctor was sitting at a desk. What struck me was there was nothing else there. There were no posters on the walls, there was no cabinet holding bottles of medicine, there was no other furniture apart from some chairs, the desk was completely bare, no paper of pen or anything on it.

 

He spoke good English & listened intently to my description of my symptoms. He smiled, reached into a drawer in his desk & pulled out a large glass bottle. He took out 4 tablets. They were charcoal tablets & he gave them to me. He had nothing else. He explained that he could only give two tablets at a time but because I was a foreigner, I could have four. He smiled again, mentioned something about Burma being very poor & medicines were unavailable. There was no charge. I was shown out the door & returned to where I was staying. I slept for 24 hours after taking the tablets & when I woke, the fever had subsided & I was on the road to recovery. 

 

I remember that visit to the doctor from time to time when I need to remind myself how well we have it today. I ponder what would have happened if I had major infection & needed antibiotics. I guess I wouldn't be typing this post now if that had been the case. I'm glad things have improved.

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Thanx WR...what a great report, a pleasure to read it ....AND Magnificent fotos ...loved the woman with the child in the basket especially.....It makes me want to visit Burma for sure....

 

Glad you are enjoying it Willie, you would like it there, its a great little break from the same same in Patts or traffic in BKK.

Hope to catch up with you again but my next trip wont be to Asia, need to try something quite different.

 

@Pacman, great story there, must have been such an eye opener back then, almost feudal. We certainly have it cushty

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Great report and nice pics.

I have been to Burma twice but this was still with my late wife so no chance to make any experience with GGs or Ladyboys. Though I saw a wonderful young girl on the ferry across the river in Rangoon who did not take her eyes from me and even followed us after debarking for a while.I would have given a fortune beeing alone.

I will go back to Burma as soon as it will be possible to enter and leave  the country by land bordercrossing. 

I have a detailed schedule entering through Tachilek and travelling all over the country down to the utmost South and leaving there to Thailand (Phuket). 

I would be more than surprised not finding any nice company, regardless GGs or ladyboys but that probably mostly in Rangoon.

An alternative might be bring a ladyboy from Thailand who is willing for threesomes and find a supplement in Burma (whatever GG or ladyboy).
I am permanently searching for news regarding border-crossing, the embassy in Berlin is unfortunately not very helpful and reports from travellers are contradictory. I have read also reports from people who said they have entered through Tachilek and continued by flight to Mandalay or other domestic airport. 

But I dont give up and wait for the day going there again and it would be very strange if I would not find that what I am looking for.

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Wildrover thanks for posting the pics, it got me thinking about the enjoyable time I spent in Myanmar in February. I also flew in via Mandalay and was also lucky to get the window seat on the left hand side(the plane from Bangkok does a big u turn over the city). Unfortunately i did not get any LB action, but in the time i spent there i did see one in Bagan and three in Yangon. The one in Bagan was really rough as you can see in the pic. On my first night in Yangon I ran into a couple near the lake in the pic below and although I got the feeling they would have been p4p the language barrier made it impossible to make any arrangements. the fourth LB I came across was near the Sule pagoda, she was very attractive but looked like she had a boyfriend. apparently there had been a big cleanup of massage parlors and brothels and the only place I could find for p4p was the bar at park royal hotel(about 15 gg) but I'm guessing traders hotel would be the same. If there was more info on the Yangon LB scene its one place I wouldn't mind returning to.

Hi,

Amazing pics.....especially the 4th (Sunset) and the 6th (pagoda at night). Please guide me on the settings you used in your camera to click these pics!!!

Cheers

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Cheers for the comments guys. Nice photos there J... you are putting me to shame! lol

Will Continue on some more info on Mandalay and surrounding area

Mandalay as i mentioned is a strange sort of city. It has no obvious centre as the massive royal palace 2.5km square surrounded by a moat seems to have taken its place. Very little remains of the old palace and what you see in the photos above is more of a modern reconstruction as it took a pounding after the Japanese used it as one of their main bases in WWII. The old King who used to reside here was shunted off in the late 19th century by the British, off to a remote corner of India.

In terms of a nightlife its pretty much non-existent from what i could make out (Yangon has a bit more to offer but still limited) and mostly consisted of drinking large bottles of decent local beet watching Southampton versus Sunderland (no offence intended to fans of either team).  Sightseeing is certainly the order of the day here and in terms of that, this area does not disappoint. Hopping on the back of a moped and speeding along the stunning lakes dotted with golden temples is certainly a highlight. A trip to nearby Ubein bridge is almost mandatory and whilst touristy, it still is a magical place, being the longest teak bridge in the world, apparently. The monks who continually stream along the bridge certainly make it very photogenic. I am not a die hard camera enthusiast but its hard not to get snapping being surrounded by this viewscape.

I was taken around to the bridge and the nearby sacred hill of Sagaing by a number of young medical students who have set up their own travel agency called Royal road. You can see pictures of the lads below and their business card with their details. I would highly recommend the lads Ye and Thet (calls himself Ted, as in Father) to guide you around, they speak excellent English which is a bit of a rarity i found and will give you some very good insights into the country and its culture. Cant remember how much i made but if you are going to Mandalay, pm me and i will let the lads know to look after you. Very kind chaps, invited me to a family birthday one of the evenings where i had the best food of the trip in a Chinese restaurant.... Chinese owned restaurants seems to be where the decent grub is at. The only other fairly good place i found was in cental Mandalay called BBB (one more B than our very own!). I tried the local side of the road haunts which were dead cheap but a bit too bland and greasy for my liking. I thought a country sandwiched between India, China and Thailand would have come up trumps in that department but imo for some reason doesnt. However it other respects Burma excels.

The sacred hill town of Sagaing about 10km out of Mandalay is definitely worth a trip. The whole hill side is just covered in golden pagodas and monasteries (no private housing allowed)  and had brilliant views over the Irrawaddy river, one of Asia's longest. As you look out from the hill you will see two impressive bridges. The one furthest to the right was built by the British just before the war and which they had to part destroy due the oncoming Japanese. The ancient royal capital of Ava is located just beyond this bridge and is on the tourist circuit too but still worth having a peek.

All in all, the Mandalay area is well worth spending some time in. I would have liked to travel further up north towards Shan state but as its a country with poor infrastructure, time is certainly needed for such an undertaking.

After 4 days around Mandalay i took the boat down river to Bagan - a lovely 10 hour trip which was also very chilled until I met  a Mancunian and a fellow Irish man and proceeded to get hammered on the local brew. I had no hotel booked in Bagan and its not easy looking for a hotel in that state, but thats all part of the fun of it. Will fill in on Bagan and the one ladyboy that i found there in the next update

Regards

Amazzing pics.......

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Hi,

Amazing pics.....especially the 4th (Sunset) and the 6th (pagoda at night). Please guide me on the settings you used in your camera to click these pics!!!

Cheers

Sorry mate i don't have much in the way of photographic talent so I stick with a point and shoot that lives on auto.

 

Just a couple of points for the Burma thread, on my last trip to LOS(last July) I spent some time on Koh Tao and the majority of workers seemed to be Burmese. After a memorable few days on the island I headed to Pattaya and ended up having my first Burmese LB experience(cute waitress called Ae that worked at pook swan).

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