The Wanderings of busman7

Where men wear longi (skirts) & there are red banana’s

My 21 days in this fascinating country have flown by & were the minimum to get a taste of what Myanmar has to offer the visitor & anyone interested in trekking will need the full 28 days allowed.

From hot, crowded, deteriorating Yangon to Mandalay with it’s hilltop pagoda & it’s moat surrounded Summer Palace to the hill towns of Hsipaw & Pyin U Lwin, with it,s impressive botanical gardens, connected by a fabulous train ride then the amazing steamer trip down the Ayeyarwady River from Mandalay, home of the Moustache Bros to the tourist trap town of Bagan which you will leave never wanting to see another pagoda or Buddha statue again to Inle Lake with it’s floating gardens & market it’s a country that must be on any adventurers bucket list. that’s just the get acquainted tourist stuff, sitting on the patio of the Motherland Inn talking to repeat visitors you get a glimpse of the wonders to be found off the beaten track to explore on the next visit!

Now it’s not all good the Yangon taxi drivers have to be the the biggest lying, scamming bunch of A$$holes on the planet but no problems with taxi’s anywhere else in the country.

Bus schedule didn’t work out for getting to Chaungtha Beach with enough time to make the trip worthwhile so I ended paying nearly the price of the taxi for a ride back to Motherland where I am chilling for the weekend picking other travelers brains for the next part of my adventure in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam.

Have updates written on windows writer but some where in Myanmar at an internet cafe they changed something on my computer so I can no longer publish my updates to my blog or access explorer so until I figure that out the updates are hidden in my laptop.

Am now back in Bangkok staying at a guest house just off Khoasan Road.

Well managed to do it again, clicked on the wrong thingy & presto my 1st post on Myanmar vanished to the nether regions of cyber space!! Oh well s**t happens so here we go again. The disappeared post was basically about ... [Continue reading this entry]

Yangon is a big city of around 5 million so it's not particularly to my liking as with all cities (Toronto included) you have to constantly be on the watch for rip-off artists. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Left Boracay on Cebu Pacific, just under $170 CAD for the 1 hr flight from Kalebo to Manila + the 3 hr flight on to Bangkok so with the $10 charge for 1 kilo overweight luggage + the $17 airport ... [Continue reading this entry]

So everyone is looking for an update?? Well after 2 weeks here trying to get my head around what I had experienced in the past 3 months I have managed to relax enough to get 3 ... [Continue reading this entry]

Well I guess I am now really an ex-pat though I still have a Canadian address.

The reason being that in my travels I have experienced enough to see through the propaganda fed us in the North American media ... [Continue reading this entry]

Traveling 1/2 way around the world then flying most of the way across Asia & overlanding it back in 2+ months has taken it’s toll as I have been at a resort on the beach on Boracay Island now for ... [Continue reading this entry]

The first thing I noticed about China (I do NOT recognize China’s claim to Tibet) was upon awakening in the morning on the train from Lhasa to drab, dreary, mud colored shacks of the Chinese rural population. This was in ... [Continue reading this entry]

Firstly I want to bring my readers up to date on the status of my mother, my children took charge & rescued her from incarceration in the bowels of Brockville General Hospital where she was serving time in purgatory due ... [Continue reading this entry]