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Mandalay, Myanmar and the infamous Moustache Brothers

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Teak temple

After a couple days at Inle we caught a flight to Mandalay where another really beat up car, this time with a Mercedez emblem attached to the front, drove us to our guest house. [read on]

Bagan and Inle Lake, Myanmar – 2000 temples and villages on the water

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Bagan Inle Lake

The next day we caught a 15 hour bus ride north to Bagan to visit the famous temples there. We arrived around 5am and caught a local ‘taxi’ – a horse and buggy – to our hotel where we were pretty sure we were the only people there for 2 days as it’s almost hot season and most tourists stay away. We arranged for this same ‘taxi’ driver to be our chauffer for the next two days at a rate of about $8/day, and later found out we got ripped off a bit but didn’t feel too bad because he was a really nice man. He took us to catch the end of sunrise above an empty temple and we were completely floored when we looked across the vast, flat, open landscape which revealed around 2000 ornate and majestic temples of similar style but various sizes. [read on]

Myanmar (Burma) a mix of India and SE Asia with no electricity and lots of heat

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Shwedagan Pagoda

We finally made it to Myanmar, after all the visa problems and detours and it was well worth the wait. Our first stop was Yangon. [read on]