The Hike From Heaven and Hell: Inle Lake area
4-8 March 2013. The hike from heaven and hell. Having spent three days exploring Inle Lake from one end to …
Category Archives: Burma
Inle Lake and Nyaung Shwe: life on and near the lake
4-8 March 2013. I begin this post by referring back to the previous one in which I wrote about the …
Crop Gardens that Float and to Market by Boat: Inle Lake and Nyaung Shwe
Very early misty morning. Watch the sun rise over the lake. Splash some water on my face. A quick breakfast …
Stumpy Buddhas, Leg Rowers, and Five Star Luxury on Inle Lake
March 4-8, 2013. We could have taken a bus to Nyaung Shwe, the closest town to Inle Lake – about …
Daily Life and Devotional Life in Rural Burma
2 March 2013. I first heard of Mount Popa, which is about fifty kilometres from Bagan, in Yangon, in a …
Puppets, Pagodas and Paintings in Bagan
28 February-4 March 2013. Bagan is all about the temples and pagodas, but I’ll start with the puppets, and the …
Abandoned Capitals, a Long Bridge, and a Slow Boat Down the Irrawaddy
24-28 February 2013. It was a long day out. Mandalay to Amarapura and the monastery (see previous post), then to …
Mad Kings and Mellow Nuns: Mingun and Amarapura
24-27 February 2013. There’s an enormous mound of bricks in the small dusty town of Mingun about an hour’s boat …
People and Pagodas of Mandalay: not like the song!
24-27 February 2013. I had such romantic notions about Mandalay from the song I’d known since childhood On the road …
The Best Pagoda in the World! And a little local entertainment in Yangon
20-24 February 2013. This is Karaweik Palace, a major Yangon landmark. The design is based on the royal barge. It …
The People of Yangon, and a Rural Wedding
20-24 February 2013. I’d wanted to go to Burma for forty years ever since I’d seen pictures of the Shwe …
Adventures in Wonderland 