Ugang Inc.
Or whatever it is called, its hard to even getting close to pronouncing the words correct – so we tend to just go phonetically.
This hotels real name was Hotel Yadanarbon, located pretty much in the middle of everything. Prices are in general very low, so I opted for the suite with a veranda, the only time I even opened the door to this veranda, was to take this picture. It was a long way down, and I did not trust it.
There is a couple of shoppingmalls in town, and its a nice place to hang when the sun is at its max. Prices are good if you are looking for clothes and shoes, and the AC is usually on full blast.
A pair of Diesel jeans, 1600 Kyatts – thats 90 NOK. Continue reading “Shoppring for jeans, Mandalay”
Leaving Bagan today, it been som nice days – but now we are ready for a bit more town feel, that we will get in the aprox 1 mill town of Mandalay
The standard price for a private car to Mandalay is 100 USD / thats around 150.000 Kyats.. Continue reading “Roadtrip to Mandalay”
We took a 2 hour trip today to, with tuk tuk – my Buddha its hot !! But! – still not a lot of tourist – low season rocks when it comes to sightseeing.
A lot of tem has construction going on – fixing and tuning. Tourism is really picking up here, so they want them to Continue reading “More pagoda-ing at Bagan”
We have 4-5 days in Bagan, staying in NewBagan – that next to OlBagan, witch borders Nayung-U – Its all the same really, but Naying-U is the town where the offices and shops are, the people and yeah, the town. Old Bagan is all the ruins and pagoda’s, old city walls around it with a couple of museums etc.. new Bagan is a collection of tourist hotels. (New Bagan = Tourist town)
We are here in the summer for Bagan (late April), and that is low season, so lots of things are closed. But even though it’s much hotter here now than in high season, it’s nice to be able to travel around without the busloads of tourist which are here in the high season. 
Continue reading “Beautiful Bagan”
The whole deal with removing shoes and socks before entering a temple, has nothing to do with religion – its a tradition thing.
The issue with this, is that we have 42C in the shade, and that means that the brick floors – who are in the sun – holds aprox 10000C and burns of Norwegian feet fast.
We have walked around complaining amongs ourself about this for time time. And today – our guide just broefly mentioned – walk on the white marble tiles.. and by god, yes – they are cooler. We just never thougt about it.. happy days!
Feet and shies nevertheless fucked after a couple days pagodaing – but not that burnt anymore.
We landed in Bagan after a 15 min stop at He Ho.
