Posts Tagged ‘yangon’
In australia, buddhism, travel on
28 February 2010 tagged 1984, airport, apple, around the world in 80 days, australia, beef masala, beer, bookshop, breakfast, buddhist, burma, business class, cold shower, corn, dharma, dinner, dorm, email, flight, fudge, gaya, george orwell, hotel, hotel maria, india, jules verne, kimchi bokeumbab, kolkata, korea, koreans, loud speaker, market, money, mosque, mumbai, myanmar, package, sleeping bag, street stall, taxi, the bastard of istanbul, train, vip, yangon with no comments
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 […]
In travel on
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 […]
In buddhism, travel on
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 […]
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
27 October 2009 tagged broom, burma, cleaning, girls, lights, moustache brothers, myanmar, night, pagoda, par par lay, photgraphy, photo, pictures, political, politics, prisoner, shwedagon, yangon with no comments
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
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
25 October 2009 tagged b&w, black, boy, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, costume, man, monk, myanmar, pagoda, photo, photography, picture, portrait, prayer, shrine, shwedagon, statue, sunglasses, white, yangon with no comments
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
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
24 October 2009 tagged b&w, black, boy, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, eyes, face, gold, makeup, monk, myanmar, pagoda, photo, photograph, photography, picture, potrait, shwedagon, sky, statue, travel, white, yangon with no comments
top — a boy pokes faces at the camera
middle — a monk imitating the buddhas behind him
bottom — shwedagon pagoda, burma’s most famous pagoda
In buddhism, humorous, travel on
5 June 2009 tagged airport, anniversary, australian embassy, ayutthaya, bangkok, beer, british council, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, day trip, elephants, feet, fight, flight, flight attendant, foreigner, hammock, happy ending, hotels, hotodg, indian, jobs, khao san road, king, massage, music, myanmar, naked, pagodas, passport, piercing, rubber plug, seat, siam, statues, taxi, teachers, temples, thailand, throne, towel, travel agent, underwear, wifi, yangon with 2 comments
day 59 — today was going to be a busy day and i got started early. i walked down to the australian embassy first, to ask about passport renewal. they told me that it’s a 10 day process and $220. i obviously don’t have that kind of time, so i went back to british council. […]
In buddhism, humorous, travel, world events on
5 June 2009 tagged aung san, aung san suu kyi, australian embassy, beer, bell, breakfast, british, british council, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burman, burmese days, burrito, camera, chank htatt kye pagoda, coke, diamond, flight, foreigner, hammock, hot, hotel, internet cafe, irrawaddy river, jobs, kids, kinpun, library, lonely planet, monk, museum, music, myanmar, pagoda, reclining buddha, restaurant, secretary, shinya, shower, shwedagon pagoda, slums, station, statue, sunset, ticket, train, water, yangon with no comments
day 56 — i woke up early and shinya and i walked down to the restaurant for breakfast. i went back to the room, packed my shit, said goodbye to shinya, and got a pickup to the train station. i had to wait for nearly an hour for the train, so i spent that time messing about […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged air conditioning, ants, argument, audiobooks, bago, base camp, beer, book, breakfast, bridge, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, burmese days, bus, buses, champions league, chinese, clouds, electricity, email, fan, gold, gold leaf, golden rock, hair, hike, journey, king, kinpun, luggage, lunch, money, monks, mosquitos, myanmar, phone, rain, relic, restaurant, rollercoaster, sacred, scared, sedan chair, shinya, ship, shrine, sleep, sunny, sunset, switchback, temples, train, train station, truck, yangon with no comments
day 54 — the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as […]
In buddhism, humorous, life, money, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged alphabet, bago, bicycle, book, bookstore, breakfast, bribery, bureaucracy, burma, burmese days, bus, camp, canada, cheese, chocolate, dictionary, diseases, email, english, eucalyptus oil, europe, geography, george orwell, gnocci, hill, inle lake, internet cafe, job, juan, letters, longyi, malaysia, massage, mint, mojito, money, myanmar, naung shwe, numbers, passport, photos, pizza, poster, restaurant, school, shinya, shower, shwe lin pan pagoda, sonia, students, switzerland, teacher, thailand, traditional, virgin, world map, writing, yangon with no comments
day 51 (anzac day) — i got up early and had breakfast. i’d made a promise with sonia and juan to go bicycle riding with them. shinya wasn’t coming with us, he’d decided to spend the day hiking in the hills. we did a circuit around the north of naung shwe, including the small lake, […]
In australia, buddhism, life, money, rants, travel on
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) […]
In australia, buddhism, life, liverpool fc, money, rants, travel on
10 April 2009 tagged airport, atm, audiobooks, australia, baht, bangkok, bangladesh, bbc, blackout, book, border, breakfast, buffet, cab, cafe, chang mai, check in, commission, cook, couchsurfing, currency, dollars, dynamite, electricity, email, embassy, emerald buddha, exchange, exit visa, flight, forms, funny, guest, hotel, immigration, india, ingredients, ipod, jihad, kassandra, khao san road, kolkata, linen, lonely planet, mcdonalds, mr jihad, mr men, muslim, myanmar, officials, pants, passport, plane, receipt, reclining buddha, ryan, sandwich, sheraton, shoestring, shopping, south east asia, spaghetti, stamp, subway, sudoku, taka, teacher, temple, thailand, thunderstorm, titanium, tshirt, visa, wat pho, wat phra kaew, wifi, yangon with no comments
day 30 (continued) — instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make […]