http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Burma , Eastern Burma en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 00:02:06 +0000 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:02:06 +0000 This is an era of modern science which made many things simple and easy for the people of the world. It also helps in preventing some of extremely lethal diseases but still many people are suffering with various kinds of sexual problems such as ED premature ejaculation and low sexual drive that may causes many psychological problems like anxiety depression and frustration. For coping with such p http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-783771.html Our last day in Myanmar and here we are in Kengtung an old British enclave and the largest town in Shan State home to many minority groups including the Akha people. Kengtung is also the capital of the Golden Triangle being only 2 hours from China and 3 hours from Thailand. Our arrival has coincided with the start of the Burmese New Year celebrations also known as Thingyan Water Festival so f http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kengtung/blog-780810.html Inle Lake is perhaps best known for the fishermen who stand on the ends of their boats casting nets and traps slapping the water to scare the fish into the net and paddling along with their foot wrapped around the paddle. It is a popular photo opportunity and our group spent much time trying to get the perfect shot.We rode along in our long boats outfitted with single wooden seats set single http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/blog-768706.html We left Kalaw high in the hills of Shan state and drove toward Inle Lake. We saw overloaded vehicles on the way to market women in fields cutting and threshing wheat. We stopped at a colorful market.I love markets. All colors and shapes of vegetables fruits dried fish skewered eels and cigar smoking women were there. I stopped to get a smear of thannaka the light colored paste that so many http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Pindaya/blog-768244.html 16 January 2013 We stay at the Princess Gardens Hotel in Nyaungshwe. I think it is by far the nicest place to stay here. Ko Aung and Mee Mee are wonderful hosts and their bungalows are lovely. They have just been forced by the government to extend their original 8 rooms to twenty to be able to maintain their hotel license and have had to build some extra bungalows and a wing of attached rooms to t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/blog-767207.html 15 January 2013Painted blue green and yellow shutters and doors on natural bamboo and woven palm houses on stilts are scattered in and around the lake. Matching curtains are tied with contrasting ribbon. It is all very chic. The villages here are better off than other areas we39ve passed through. Though the lake shore has receded by about two miles all round the lake is still vast and beautif http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/blog-767206.html 14 January 2013It is a crispy cold morning which we are not really prepared for we are packed for beach weather. We put on most of the clothes in our packs and go for a walk. We have three hours to kill before taking the train from Kalaw to Inle Lake. We decided on the train because it is a short trip from here down to Inle and we39d like to check out what the train journeys are like before http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-767033.html 13 January 2013Falling asleep to the sound of monks chanting at the Buddhist monastery next door.. The air is cool and crisp and smoke from cooking fires is beginning to seep into our room.Kalaw was once a hill town where the British colonials came to escape the heat and it still has a faded but gently colonial is that an oxymoron atmosphere. The people here are much more guarded. They are not http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-767029.html To continue where I left of I took an overnight understand arriving early morning 3am bus to Taunggyi but somehow persuaded the driver to drop me off in Shwenyuang. The bus I took looked more like the one I expected before.During the travel I had to make up a boyfriend because one eager young boy wanted to chat with me but spoke little English and kept repeating if I was single. As expected I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Taunggyi/blog-750405.html If you are soccer you39d probably determine what this means to have a excellent hat. These days we have a great deal of night clubs that many individuals sooo want to don their jersey but can not wear them as a consequence of our fascination with a selected team as well as country. Also since were diehard followers of these night clubs Sparta7 soccer gear makes that easy for people to have http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-736314.html Kalaw is high in the mountains we39d passed through it on the way to Inle Lake. In the dry season it is where you come for trekking but this being the wet season for us it was basically a hop down the road to somewhere different that chops a bit of time off the long bus trip back to Yangon.After breakfast in Nyaungshwe we went to the internet cafe and actually managed to get some photos on the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-733936.html Estuvimos 2 das en Nyaung Shwe uno de los pueblos del lago Inle en donde se encuentran la mayora de los hoteles para los extranjeros hay otros en medio del lago pero son bastante caros. El primer da alquilamos bicis y fuimos por la tarde a dar un paseo alrededor del lago pero nos terminamos quedando el resto de la tarde en la primera parada una bodegaviedo en donde tambin haba http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-730643.html Empezamos el trekking como a las 830am ramos el grupo de ayer ms un francs y menos Marta una de las espaolas que conoc en el autobs que se dobl el pie bajando las escaleras minutos antes de que saliramos S...El primer da caminamos entre arrozales y pequeos caseros en un camino mayormente plano con una que otra pendiente sin mayor dificultad por el camino nuestro gua http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-730641.html Llegamos como a las 4am despus de 12 horas de viaje en el autobs nos conseguimos con un grupo de 3 espaoles que venan en el mismo avin y que Alex haba conocido unos das antes en Bangkok as que decidimos seguir juntos primero al hotel y para el trekking que ellos tambin iban a hacer.Por la maana caminamos un poco por el pueblito ahora el grupo se hizo ms grande 7 perso http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-730640.html We walked for three days through the fertile countryside of eastern Myanmar from the altitudinous cool of Kalaw along the tops of steep hills through valleys and villages to the serenity of Inle Lake and its unique legpaddling fishermen.We eschewed some of the more straightforward routes and ventured south climbing forested mountainside and then east into tracks less travelled by tourists. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-713039.html Today was a fantastic day Our night in the Lucky Bright Hotel was quiet and the breakfast they served was big and delicious.We booked a driver and his boat to take us around Inle Lake for the day. Our boat was 14 000 Kyat for 5 people just under 20 dollars. The boat itself was super comfortable. We had huge chairs with cushions on the seats and blankets to keep us warm. It was really chilly on http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Taunggyi/blog-708428.html Our guide was Ouzo and he was the fastest 59 year old trekker I have ever met. The hike was awesome and he very informative about many aspects of Myanmar history the people flora fauna agriculture education economics etc. We hiked through 3 different villages poked our heads into a school and chatted with locals along the way. For lunch we went to a Nepalese place at the top of a hill wi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-703345.html We had to push start the Town Ace this morning. Hmmm... The countryside in Myanmar is georgeous. People are smiling and waving everywhere. Chan took us on a detour today. We went to the new Capital. Yangon isn39t technically the capital city anymore Naypyidaw is.It was quite shocking. A ghost town with no traffic and a 7 lane super highway. The government put roughly 4 BILLION dollars into a b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Kalaw/blog-700441.html ltpregtPatience and a healthy body r needed to move from one place to the next. I39m still having trouble with bothltpregtltpregt. The fuse i didn39t have anymore has grown back nowadays to a very very short one...m really working on ltpregtltpregtgetting it extended and thus being by myself again without a social life feels tremendously good. As for my body the pressu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Tachileik/blog-697843.html Aadir en la joyera anillos telfonos bolgrafos encendedores de metal tipo Zippo. Es sorprendente que incluso objetos que las personas normalmente no contiene opinas de insertos metlicos o de metal pueden causar detectores de metales para apagar sonido. Trabajo la escuela la conveniencia o el nivel de ingresos a veces puede llevar a vivir en un barrio de alta criminalidad. Usted pued http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Burma/Eastern-Burma/Pindaya/blog-691409.html