August 31, 2012 Tips: Visit the museum. It’s included in the cost of admission and well worth an hour to learn about the rock before you climb and you probably wont need a guide. Arrive early as the crowds gathered around 11AM. Bring water! Ask for good directions to the car park. You will meet …
Aug 30, 2012 Despite our tiring two-day journey from Phi Phi, Thailand to Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, we jumped right into the sightseeing. We spent the night of August 29 at the Milano Tourist Rest House and were able to get a full night’s sleep. Milano is located near many of the sites and close to …
Colombo Fort Train Station 29 August 2012 From Bangkok, our flight arrived at Colombo Intl Airport in Sri Lanka early at 8:40 AM local time. Going through immigration was a breeze as they didn’t even look at our visa approval forms that we had printed from the internet. You can get your pre-approved Visa easily …
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August 8, 2012 We were very excited that our good friend Hamid was visiting us in Phuket so we decided to take a boat tour of the Hongs in Phang Nga Bay. At first we were looking at different tours that were specifically for kayaking that would allow us to paddle, not have someone paddle …
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August 2012 We spent our month on Kata Beach in Phuket, Thailand mostly catching up on work, broken by swims in the pool and walks on the beach. On some Wednesdays we would take the songthaew to the Central Festival Mall in Phuket Town, to watch movies (which are cheaper on Wednesdays). The waves are …
August 2012 After our travels through Myanmar, we spent the month of August in Kata Beach, Phuket Island, Thailand. We looked for a hotel to stay at for an entire month, but not finding anywhere we were sure about, we decided to rent a room for two weeks to start with. Our home for the …
July 29-30, 2012 When we returned to Yangon at the end of our journey through Myanmar we had two full days left. We would have been happy to fly to Thailand right away, but instead we had two days to pass in the city. July 29, 2012 White Elephants and White Marble Buddha (Kyauk Daw …
28, July 2012 We purchased our tickets for the bus from Kinpun to Yangon directly from our hotel, Golden Sunrise, for 7,000 Kyat/person. This included the bus (pickup truck) picking us up from the hotel, since we were on the main road back to Kyaikto. If you remember from a our post regarding the bus …
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July 27, 2012 The Golden Rock stupa of Kyaiktiyo is a major pilgrimage site for Burmese Buddhists. It is busy with devotees during the pilgrimage season (from November to March), but we went during monsoon season, when there were very few people at the Golden Rock. For us, the major part of the experience was …