January 28, 2019
If you are planning on visiting Myanmar and you are short on time (as I was), here are my suggestions for the top things to do in each location. I visited Myanmar in 2018 and spent 8 days there — 2 nights each in Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan and Inle Lake. I’l be honest and say that I wish I spent…
June 9, 2018
I loved Inle Lake. Thank God, because I was beginning to wonder why people raved about Myanmar so much (and was pretty much over it by this time). During my stay at Inle Lake, I discovered my Myanmar mojo — and not before time, because this was the last stop on the itinerary. The people were friendly and kind —…
June 2, 2018
Like Mandalay, Bagan was one of my least favourite places in Myanmar and I think being there in low season may have been the reason, although I can’t be entirely sure. With fewer tourists, and less earning capacity, money was tight, which meant we were hounded to buy, buy, buy everywhere we went. It was more than irritating — the…
May 26, 2018
I have to be honest and say that Mandalay was one of my least favourite places in Myanmar. It was hot, and challenging in a number of ways. It was here that I started to wonder where the lovely Myanmar people were that everyone raved about (and this was from tourist services touch point perspective). I found there was a…
May 19, 2018
> When I visited Yangon the first time, I wasn’t impressed with the capital, but to be fair, I did no sight-seeing because I just went from meeting to site visit to meeting and spent a lot of time in taxis on Yangon’s gridlocked roads. When a friend wanted to tick Myanmar off her travel bucket list and asked me…
December 13, 2017
Last weekend, I visited Yangon, Myanmar for work. I was only there for three days, two nights, so it really was a fly in, fly out visit. It’s a two-hour flight from Vietnam (depending on whether you fly in from Saigon or Hanoi), where I am based. As a heads up, I did not one touristy thing. No sightseeing, no…