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10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:59 pm
by Q.
Just a bit of a photo blog from one of the friendliest country's I've been too!

Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:05 pm
by Q.
Yangon

Former capital. Cracked pavements and crumbling colonial buildings. Not a tourist in sight as you walk the streets and some of kids stare like you're the first white person they've ever seen.

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Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:10 pm
by Q.
Bagan

Temple anyone? More than 2500 of them actually, scattered across a plain and offering an amazing view when you look across it.

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Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:15 pm
by Q.
Inle Lake

Inle Lake, set high in the misty mountains and giving respite from the heat and humidity of the rest of the country. Tranquil.

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Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:52 pm
by Footy Chick
Wow! Some great photos there Quiche. Glad to know you're still alive too ;)

Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:13 pm
by Dirko
Hows ya money going Quiche man ? :lol:

Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:15 am
by AFLflyer
Awesome Q - great photos, would love to get there one day.
what are the plans now?
i think a travel blog is in order!

Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:07 pm
by Q.
SJABC wrote:Hows ya money going Quiche man ? :lol:


Those crisp notes worked a treat, thanks mate. Best part is that I've still got some leftover!

Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:10 pm
by Q.
AFLflyer wrote:Awesome Q - great photos, would love to get there one day.
what are the plans now?
i think a travel blog is in order!


Crossing into Laos at Huay Xai today.

Crikey wants me to write on the run, finding time and energy to do it is proving difficult though. See how I go, hopefully stay off the piss and take some time to chill at Luang Nam Tha and Luang Prabang.

Re: 10 Days in Myanmar

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:24 pm
by Q.
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/back-in-a-bit/2010/11/05/in-yangon-feel-like-youre-the-only-traveller-in-town/

After spending seven days in Phuket and Bangkok, hubs of hedonism and cauldrons of commercialism, the first steps through Myanmar’s former capital provided me with the perfect antidote to the previous week’s mind-numbing indulgences.

Driving from the airport through outer Yangon in a beat up early-model Corolla cum taxi you’ll fly past the immense and irrefutably symbolic Shwedagon Pagoda; gloriously golden, but whose splendor is contradictory to the rest of Yangon that awaits you.