Reminiscing the brief visit to Inle Lake, Inle Lake had left me with slides of beautiful untouched landscape. The morning market and the boat tour will definitely bring you to another era. But, if you book yourself a one-day tour boating around Inle Lake, be prepared for some tourist drudgery. I didn’t mind going for […]

After burning some calories cycling around Bagan, the biking guide brought me to the oldest and finest monastery of its time, Myo Daung Monastery. Myo Daung Monastery means the monastery at the corner of the city. It is now located within old Bagan, right up north. With east-meet-west architecture, the numerous intricate woodcarvings from the […]

Day-2 trekking started very early in the morning i.e. 7a.m. after we had good breakfast. We bid farewell to the hosts and started to walk the wet ground evincing the heavy rain the night before. Red soil was everywhere as agriculture is the way of life in Kalaw. At first, I tried to catch up […]

In my previous post, I did mention about a distinctive feature of Burmese people that is the yellowish-white cosmetic paste worn on the cheeks either in circular or stripey formation. Throughout my days in Myammar, I had seen them wearing all over the places. I did not know what it was called until I got […]

Prelude: Hola! Sorry for the lack of updates as I had problems uploading my 16G pictures from my recent Burma trip. My internal SD card reader cannot read 3 out of 4 memory cards I bought to Burma. Therefore, some were transferred to my personal laptop and the others to my office laptop. And they […]