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3 February 2010 tagged air india, book, burma, chess, coffee, craig, cycle rickshaw, email, hammock, hotel, indian embassy, kolkata, lonely planet, mandalay, markets, moustache brothers, myanmar, passport, tattoo, tourist, train ticket, travel, visa, yangon, yangon united fc with no comments
day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had breakfast and drank a coffee at an outdoor café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the afternoon, had dinner and slept.
day 312 — my morning routine had settled into breakfast and coffee. the small café had a […]
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3 February 2010 tagged airport, amapura, bangkok, battery pack, beer, blanket, boat, breakfast, bridge, burma, bus, bus ticket, camera, coffee, cold, customs, dhl, dinner, drunk, flight, hammock, horse cart, hotel, ice cream book, india, indian embassy, koreans, longyes, mandalay, market, monks, myanmar, new years day, new years eve, noodles, passport photos, razors, shampoo, soap, sunglasses, sunset, taxi, temple, thailand, tshirt, u myo aung, ubein bridge, visa, yangon with no comments
day 306 — new years eve — the day began with breakfast and chess online, after which i checked out and headed to the airport. i flew to burma and met some other tourists (two koreans and a swiss guy) and we all agreed to share a taxi to town. i had a few errands […]
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4 October 2009 tagged buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, clouds, gold, mandalay, monk, myanmar, pagoda, photo, photography, picture, reclining, sky, spire, statue, temple, woman with no comments
top — burmese spires, in their millions
middle — a female monk
bottom — a giant reclining buddha statue
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13 August 2009 tagged blue, bridge, burma, clouds, lake, mandalay, monk, myanmar, photo, photography, picture, pohtos, reflection, silhouette, ubein bridge, water with 1 comment
top — ripples on the lake
middle — ubein bridge
bottom — reflections on calm water
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10 June 2009 tagged airport, apple, australia, australian consulate, australian embassy, backpack, balls, bangkok, beer, book, bookstore, boom, burma, camera, camera bag, candles, chiang mai, equipment, flirting, girl, gstring, himalaya, hotel, istudio, kata, khao san road, lapdance, lowepro, lunch, mandalay, mbm, naked, nepal, nude, passport, pat pong, photography, photos, ping pong bat, ping pong show, ploy, red light district, rudyard kipling, ryan, shinya, shopping, skytrain, sleep, steven galloway, straw, strip club, survey, taxi, thai, thailand, the cellist of sarajevo, theatre restaurant, tip, topless, trek, trick, tshirt, vagina, whistle with 1 comment
the travel diary for days 61 to 88 can be found under himalaya trek.
day 89 — i enjoyed a rare sleep in and watched some tv in my hotel room. i checked out and waited for ryan and boom in the restaurant attached to the hotel. due to a mixup, i didn’t realise that i was […]
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29 April 2009 tagged art, artists, aung san, bagan, barbeque, barcelona, beer, bicycle, bike, boat, breakfast, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, bus, canal, catalan, children, cigarette, classrooms, curry, farm, festival, fishing, fishing village, flashlight, food, football, girls, gnocci, guitar, hotel, hti lom min lo pagoda, hydroponic, inle lake, inn dein, juan, juggling, jumping cat monastery, kalaw, kayin, kebab, liverpool, long neck, mandalay, markets, milkshakes, minyein gon pagoda, money, monks, music, myanmar, naung-u, pagodas, paintings, photographer, photographs, photography, pizza, puncture, pya tha da pgaoda, repair, restaurant, school, seaweed, shinya, sleep, sonia, statues, sunrise, sunset, swim, tea, temple, that byin huy temple, thumbs, ticket, tomato, tourists, tshirt, village, wedding, workshop with no comments
day 46 — after another great breakfast on the lawn, i rented a bicycle with the intention of riding into old bagan and exploring the pagodas. about 500 meters from the hotel i got a flat tyre. cursing, i walked the bike back in the direction of the corner i’d passed. an old guy told […]
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27 April 2009 tagged amarapura, audiobook, aung san suu kyi, ayerawaddi, bagaya kyaung, barefot, beer, bicycle, boat, brechtian, british couple, buddha, buddhist, burma, crowd, curry, emails, ferry, government, hot, hsinbyume paya, humour, ice cream, imprisonment, inle lake, inwa, ipod, liverpool, lonely planet, mandalay, mandalay hill, mingun, mingun paya, mini petra, monastery, money, monk, monywa, moustache brothers, myanmar, nanmyin watchtower, ox cart, pagoda, palace, photography, political, political prisoners, polygamy, prison, rain, rickshaw, river, sagaing, sagaing hill, sandamani paya, satire, shinya, shwe kyet kya pagoda, souvenirs, statues, tattoos, tea, teak, temple, thai girls, tilawka guru, touts, tripitaka, troupe, truck, ubein bridge with no comments
day 41 — today was an early start, as we were catching the ferry to a small town across the ayerawaddi river. the town is mingun and has a few interesting temples. one of the temples is on the cover of the myanmar lonely planet. shinya had got no sleep and was tired from his […]
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22 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, baht, bangkok, bar, beer, boom boom, breakfast, buddha, buffet, bus, cash, chicken noodles, dance, dollars, filipino band, fucking, girls, guesthouse, hotel, ice cream, ipod, irish bar, japanese, kao san road, kyats, liverpool, mahamuni paya, mandalay, monastery, money, mosquito, music, myanmar, nightclub, photography, photos, pole dance, prostitutes, rain, restaurant, routine, samosa, shin rameon, shinya, shwe in bin kyaung, skype, statue, tables, tea, thai, thailand, tomato curry, transvestite, visa, water festival, weather, yangon with no comments
day 36 — i finished packing and headed into kao san road for some last minute business … first on the agenda was obtaining enough cash to keep me going in myanmar. the country has no atm machines (due to economic sanctions) so it’s impossible to withdraw money and very few places (mostly expensive hotels) […]
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21 March 2009 tagged amitav ghosh, battery, beads, bhodi tree, bodhgaya, book, boulevard, bracelet, british empire, burma, cobra, darjeeling, dinner, exile, fish, hotel, illustratoins, india, internet cafe, king, lake, leaves, lecture, mahabhodi temple, mandalay, meditation, monastery, monk, myanmar, oliver, passengers, patna, photos, pilgrims, queue, reserved, restaurant, rickshaw, sandalwood, shortcut, silhouette, souvenirs, statues, stupa, teak, teak bridge, the glass palace, ticket, tourists, train, ubein bridge, video, video camera with 1 comment
i have 4 hours to kill before my train to darjeeling, so i found an internet café and a nice restaurant in the smally shitty city of patna. i plan on sitting here until my train departs for the 11 hour trek to india’s north east border.
day 13 (continued) — i ran into oliver again […]