Travel Tips
We have now visited over 30 countries and have written travel tips regarding accommodations, transportation, places to eat, and must-see places to visit. This section is a work in progress, as we are working to make it easier to find articles. For now, you can find some of our recent travel tips below. You can also do a search to find information about the location of your interest! Thanks for visiting. 🙂
How to Get to Columbo Bandaranaike International Airport from Unawatuna
Unawatuna Beach Town We decided that we didn’t want to spend our last night in Colombo for a couple of reasons: Colombo is expensive and accommodations are spread out. We would rather spend our time at the beach than the craziness of Colombo 😉 The best way to get to Columbo International Airport early from […]
How to Get from Colombo Intl Airport to Anuradhapura by Train
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 through the website Embassy […]
Bus from Kinpun (Mt. Kyaiktiyo – Golden Rock) to Yangon
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 […]
Bus from Bago to Kinpun (Mt. Kyaiktiyo- Golden Rock)
26, July 2012 In the afternoon after sightseeing we boarded a bus from Bago to Kyaikto. We had a little help from our tour guide in Bago who purchased the tickets and helped us catch the bus. The bus tickets to Kyaikto cost 5,000 Kyat/person. Because we were traveling during monsoon (low) season, the bus […]
Bus from Bagan to Bago (Yangon)
25 July, 2012 We purchased our bus tickets for Bagan to Bago directly from the bus station in Nyaung U. We went with Mandalar Minn, since we had a very good experience with them from Yangon to Mandalay. The cost was 15,000 Kyat/person. If you are going to Yangon or Bago the price is the […]
Recommended Horse Cart Driver in Bagan
July 23, 2012 Our second horse cart ride in Bagan was much better than the previous horse cart ride. We hired Minthu as our driver, based upon a recommendation from a friend. He went with us to many of the temples and explained the history. He also answered our questions about monks and the monastery […]
Bus from Inle Lake (Nyaungshwe Junction) to Bagan (Nyaung U)
20 July 2012 An air-conditioned bus from Inle Lake to Bagan costs 16,000 Kyat per person. We took a 7:00 AM bus from the Nyaung Shwe Junction, which is located about 25 minutes from the town of Nyaung Shwe. Since we were staying at the Aquarius Guesthouse, we had to arrange our own transportation to […]
Bus from Hsipaw to Kalaw then Nyaung Shwe (Inle Lake)
14 July 2012 Our original plan was to break up the trip from Hsipaw to Inle Lake into two days. First we would take the bus back to Mandalay and spend the night in Mandalay and then take a different bus the following day to Inle Lake. However, once we found out there was a […]
Bus from Mandalay to Hsipaw
July 11, 2012 We purchased our tickets for the bus from Mandalay to Hsipaw directly from a ticketing agency located only a couple of blocks from the Silver Swan Hotel. The name of the bus company is Dothawaddi (means small river) and the tickets cost 5,000 Kyat/person. The departure time was 2:30 PM with an […]
Bus from Yangon to Mandalay
08 July, 2012 We booked our bus ride from Yangon to Mandalay through our hotel in Yangon. The name of the bus company was Mandalar Min Express and it cost 13,000 Kyat/person (about $15 usd). We were told that because of the newly opened highway and newer buses the ride would only take seven hours […]
Arriving in Yangon, Myanmar – Exchanging Money and Taxi into the City
July 6, 2012 We arrived on a cloudy evening from Bangkok at around 6:00 PM local Myanmar time. Yangon International Airport is the second smallest Capital airport in south east Asia that we have used. The only smaller one is Vientiane, Laos. Our plane was the only one in any of the terminals at the […]
Myanmar Essential Packing List
George and I have started to work on our Myanmar Packing List, since we will be headed to Myanmar in July! In order to be sure that we remember all the essentials, while still packing light, we prepared a packing list weeks in advance. To come up with our Myanmar Packing List, I started with […]