You must take a long-tailed boat to get there and it is a significant walk from the pier. Stop for lunch at the Golden Kite Restaurant, excellent food.
I love hand-woven fabrics and have been to many weaving facilities. This one demonstrates the pulling of lotus fibres to make the yarn, and it is not hard to se...
Inle Lake is 40% covered by villages on stilts and floating gardens. Fishing, and agriculture are the main occupations, supplemented by cottage industries. Vi...
There were a few drawbacks, but I will get to them later, only so the reader is aware. Let’s start with the positive. The cottage style room on stilts over th...
Artifacts from the Royal dynasties are well displayed. As you enter level 1 there is a complete throne room from a Mandalay Palace. Clothing, textiles, artwor...
Just like the Shwedagon Pagoda, the reclining Buddha is having its gold leaf re-applied, and the image is surrounded by scaffolding. I’m sure that it will be i...
Every 3 years, the Shwedagon Pagoda has the weather-worn gold leaf scraped off, and fresh gold leaf applied. Our unfortunate luck was to have this occur during...
This restaurant was recommended by our guide from 7Days Tours (excellent company), and walking distance from our hotel, Taw Win Garden. We had just arrived bac...
This hotel is such a pleasant surprise after 24 tiring hours of travel! We recommend it if you need to stay near the airport. From our first encounter with th...
We asked at our hotel reception for directions to a nice restaurant. They suggested down the street about .5km. However as we were leaving the hotel (At Resid...
