Before I started my journey to Southeast Asia I had read some comments about Myanmar from other travellers and one or two of them wrote that the highlight of their trip was Inle Lake. In addition I have watched so many TV documentaries etc. about the Inle Lake and the fishermen that I couldn’t miss this spot while finally travelling in Myanmar myself. I wanted to see the beautiful lake and the famous fishermen with their unique 1-leg rowling technique and take some beautiful pictures of them, but then when I finally get there things turned out to be different than [View Full Entry]

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It took me much too long to finally set my feet on Burmese soil. Myanmar has been on top of my travel list for many many years, but for some reason, I always ended up skipping Myanmar while travelling in Southeast Asia. So this time I had to visit this country at all costs. In the past travellers could enter Myanmar by land from Thailand, but due to some tensions between the Thai and the Burmese government, all landborders are currently closed and the only way to get into „The Golden Land“ is by taking a plane to the capital Yangon. [View Full Entry]

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They say: „Never leave that to tomorrow what you can do today!!!“… but as all of you know, these words are sometimes easier said than done. My last extent trip to Southeast Asia is dating back a few years. Since then, a little travel bug has been nagging me from time to time that I still have a few Southeast Asian countries left on my list to visit, and to name them: Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines. Therefore, one day in January 2007 when I felt farsick once again… I’ve just booked a flight to Southeast Asia… ready for chasing that [View Full Entry]

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