To Read on the Road: Myanmar
I always try to find a good selection of books to take with me when I travel and here are a few books I read while travelling through Myanmar, and […]
Category Archives: Myanmar
Shiny Golden Buddhas in Myanmar
Buddhas come in all kinds of materials: marble, wood, alabaster, ceramic, metal, plaster, concrete… In the profoundly Buddhist Myanmar the Buddhas are often gilded with gold leaf.In the Mahamuni Pagoda […]
A Golden Pagoda in the Middle of a Traffic Circle (Yangon, Myanmar)
Sule Pagoda is situated in the middle of the best looking traffic circles in the world. Little girl rings a golden bell at the entrance to the pagoda. Sheets of gold leaf […]
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things That Are Smooth
A collection of things that are smooth from around the world. silky smooth… (a silk-weaving workshop in Myanmar) the lake was smooth as glass… (found in the BC Interior) goes down smooth as a […]
Travel Theme: Spices from Around the World
Ailsa’s theme of ‘Spice’ came just as I was whipping up some Spanish-style spiced almonds as a Christmas nibble, using two tablespoons of cayenne and one of smoked Spanish paprika. I don’t […]
Ananda Pahto Temple in Bagan, Myanmar
Our first day exploring the many temples of Bagan culminated at the Ananda Pahto. The Ananda Pahto, or Phaya, is one of the earliest of Bagan’s great temples, built in Mon architectural style of […]
Thatbyinnyu Phaya in Bagan, Myanmar
Realizing that it would be impossible to see all two or three thousand of Bagan’s temples, we started skimming the cream of crop, heading for the temples that had been circled […]
Giant Buddhas in Manuha Temple in Bagan
Our next stop on our ebike tour of Bagan was circled on our map as a ‘do-not-miss’ sight. Built in 1059 by King Manuha, it contains three giant Buddhas, each one […]
Sein Nyet Pagoda in Bagan
First thing in the morning we grabbed our annotated map, picked up was our ebikes and we were off to explore the temples of Bagan, all 2000 plus of them! […]
Chile Ratings in Bagan, Myanmar
We started our tour of South-East Asia in Bangkok, where I was quickly reminded of just how spicy Thai food can be. Basically a ‘one chile’ dish in Thailand would be […]
