In heaven all the interesting people are missing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Posts Tagged ‘myanmar’

travel diary — day 320

day 316 — i had break­fast and talked to dave for a while, then star­ted my new book ‘the bas­tard of istan­bul’. the book annoyed me (focus­ing on how much armeni­ans hate turks and visa versa) and i refused to read more. i’m sure the book has a happy end­ing and they all grow to […]

travel diary — day 315

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 […]

travel diary — day 310

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 […]

happy new year

the year 2009 was the most amaz­ing year of my life. i quit my job and spent 10 months of the year on the road. i vis­ited 20 coun­tries and spent new years even in myan­mar.
2009 was a year of extreme highs and lows. i had a lot of fun trav­el­ing and see­ing so many […]

travel diary — day 290

day 286 — being on the lake made me feel lazy (well, lazier than usual) and i decided to stay and do some read­ing. i sold my copy of ‘the beach’ (which was actu­ally very, very good) and snagged a copy of ‘amer­ican psy­cho’ by bret eaton elis. i’ve read it before, but it was […]

photos from burma

top — shwed­agon pagoda at night (phở­to­graphed from my hotel room)
middle — par par lay, a burmese comedian who’s been jailed three times
bot­tom — girls clean shwed­agon pagoda

photos from burma

top — a man prays at a shrine in shwed­agon pagoda
middle — a boy in tra­di­tional dress is car­ried around the pagoda as part of a cere­mony
bot­tom — morph­eus the monk

photos from burma

top — a boy pokes faces at the cam­era
middle — a monk imit­at­ing the buddhas behind him
bot­tom — shwed­agon pagoda, burma’s most fam­ous pagoda

photos from burma

top — a monk stands by burma’s fam­ous golden rock
middle — an old woman walks through a mar­ket
bot­tom — a happy girl smiles for me

photos from burma

top — tomato plant­a­tions grow on a river, phở­to­graphed at sun­set
middle — a girl sells hand made cigar­ettes
bot­tom — an old woman poses for a photo

photos from burma

top — a shy child peeks out from behind a post
middle — two kids pose for por­traits
bot­tom — a karen longneck

photos from burma

top — a burmese girl dur­ing a buddhist fest­ival
middle — a karen long­neck makes han­di­crafts
bot­tom — pago­das pago­das everywhere

photos from burma

top — a man fishes on inle lake
middle — a local girl dur­ing a buddhist women’s fest­ival
bot­tom — a fam­ily bathe along a canal

photos from burma

top — a cute girl, black and white por­trait
middle — sun­set over bagan
bot­tom — the boy behind bars, smiles at me through a fence

photos from burma

top — the view of bagan
middle — edward scor­pion hands … check out that thumb!!
bot­tom — a young vendor’s portrait

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