MARVELS OF MINGUN Rather than spend our last day in Mandalay in the city proper, we decided to take a boat ride across the mighty Irrawaddy River to visit the small township of Mingun. There are a few sights in Mandalay we skipped including the concrete reconstruction of […]
GOLDEN SUNRISE AT U BEIN BRIDGE One of the most photogenic and photographed spots in the whole of Myanmar is U Bein Bridge, the world’s oldest wooden bridge. Situated an hour’s drive South of Mandalay, en route to the town of Sagaing, U Bein Bridge makes for a […]
ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY Thanks to Rudyard Kipling’s famed poem, for many people the name “Mandalay” evokes images of an exotic Eastern city; a paradise far away. Mandalay was also the last royal capital of Myanmar before the country was annexed by the British, adding to its […]
EXPLORATIONS OF DOWNTOWN YANGON Throughout our travels we have generally found that the best a country has to offer is rarely found in its biggest cities – they’re usually busy, crowded, noisy and not as interesting for us as smaller towns and provincial areas. Yangon, however, may […]
MINGALABAR! WELCOME TO MYANMAR… The modern nation of Mayanmar, formerly known as Burma, sits geographically to the West of Thailand, to the East of India, with China to the North. During our travels through South East Asia a couple of years ago, we kept bumping into other travelers […]
Wandering Soles 