Hpa An (pronounced as P-an) will be our final destination in Myanmar. We wanted to travel further down south, but the bus rides are extremely long and we have already done so much traveling that the Thai border beckons us. The border is only a couple of hours away and the luxurious and beautiful Thai […]
The bus ride from Inle Lake to Mandalay takes almost the entire day. We are picked up in the morning right after breakfast at 08:30 and we arrive in Mandalay at 18:15. When we drive into the city we are flooded by impressions of simple houses, unpaved roads and people- a lot of people. The […]
Mar-2016
A week of doing absolutely nothing and letting all the Lao impressions sink in in Chiang Rai has done us good. We have a wonderful apartment with kitchen in the Contdotel, an apartment building where a lot of expats and retired Westerners live with their Thai spouses. We relax and enjoy our own cooking so […]