In the Kayaw tribe village we were supposed to be the first “white people” We are so excited just about the memory of that day!!! Thanks to huge coincidence we met John and his Uncle from the Kayaw tribe…the tribe we wanted to visit very much during our stay in Loikaw. Imagine that on…
Myanmar (also known as Burma) has only recently opened up for tourism. For a couple of years now it is gaining on popularity and attracts tourists from different parts of the world. Regulations concerning visa processing as well as prices and tourism infrastructure changes quite rapidly here. But if you dream about Myanmar undiscovered (which…
The New Year celebration in Myanmar, also called Water Festival, is an important national holiday. It usually takes place in the month of April and lasts four days aiming to prepare people for the Buddhist New Year (Thingyan). Everyone who takes a walk one of these days, can be sure to come back home completely…
When after an intensive whole day of exploring you realize that it’s slowly getting dark and you still do not have a place to spend the night…? But you don’t freak out yet, as you have your tent with you, which turns out not to be an option though, as sleeping in a tent is…
We started our travel in Myanmar by visiting Myauk U. We spent 20 hours on a bus from Mandalay to get there.. but it was worth it! The place lies outside of the usual touristic track and so it’s not crowded with tourists. Actually we only met there only a couple of foreigners, which for…
To start explaining anything about India we need to grab some facts, so that it helps you realize the scale 🙂 There are three times more people in India than in Europe and they live on a surface which is three times smaller than Europe. There are 29 states and each of them is almost…
Till the very end we could not decide which of those places we should choose. From one side, we heard opinions that Ajanta and Ellora are totally different, on the other side people said that for a random European person they are rather similar and it is enough to visit just one of them. They…
There are moments in life when one trusts his own intuition more than information one receives. This was one of such moments. We have been told that because of low level of water it was impossible to reach the area of Inle Lake on a boat and to get there we could only use the…
White man in India is perceived as a millionaire. In every place you feel that someone wants to take some money from you. Despite the fact that for entrances we pay 10 or even 20 times more than Indie citizens, Whiteys (that is how we described ourselves there :P) overpay for almost everything: food, drinks,…
This advice is mostly for the travelers who have a rather low budget, so if you do not belong to those feel free to skip this part. We came to Myanmar directly from India where it was cheap in the first place plus coach surfing works really well there, so it helped making some savings.…