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Asia » Burma » Eastern Burma » Tachileik October 18th 2007

TravellingBrenda2013

Still Thursday 18th October I am now in the town of Tachileik in Myanmar. Probably sounds as though I am on the go and wearing myself to a frazzle. May seem like it but I have time to "recover" from my "doings" on the buses, planes, tuk tuks and boats. Just to reassure those of you who may be thinking I am overdoing. As usual, I seem to get a tuk tuk as soon as I arrive at my destination as they are very helpful and obliging. I stopped at a lovely temple and then went to a beautiful stupa. The view is quite pretty and you overlook the town. Met a very helpful man who told me a "safe" hotel to stay in. It was then onto visit the a tribal market and saw a ... read more

"Burma" myanamar

Asia » Burma » Eastern Burma » Tachileik September 3rd 2007

monk

wheresdave

Ok, so I was in Burma for just a day to renew my Thailand visa but i am sure I will be having many more Blogs from Thailand and I probably won't make it back to Burma (though I would like to). Burma was kind of nice, but I only experienced a border town. Burma is much poorer than Thailand and you know it the minute you cross the bridge into Burma (i know it is called myanamar now but the people are still Burmese). But this is nice, fewer tourist, more raw and more "real" than some places. I wished I had the time to explore it a little more. The trouble is you can't go into Burma overland (well just to three towns you can) due to government regulations. It is a military government ... read more

A two day slow boat up the Mekong to Chiang Rai and up to Burma for a day

Asia » Burma » Eastern Burma » Tachileik September 1st 2007

Mekong River

KdK

Sept 1 - Slow Boat to Pakbeng Sept 2 - Slow Boat to Houy Xai Sept 3 - Into Thailand and a bus to Chiang Rai Sept 4 - Jeep tour of Chiang Rai, Hill tribes, the Golden Triangle and up to the border town of Mae Sai Sept 5 - tour of Tachilek, Myanmar and journey down to Chiang Mai From Luang Prabang, we got on the 2 day slow boat up the Mekong to the Thai border. Of course, you could make it all the way to the border in 7 hours on a fast boat, if you wanted - but they say that on the speed boats, 'fatal accidents occur with alarming frequency.' That is, there are fatal accidents - WEEKLY! That's just crazy - and Lao Airlines was sort of out of ... read more

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