Myanmar – Bianca Mertens

23 Jan 2019

Sunrises in Bagan

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[ultimate_heading main_heading="Sunrises & Balloons in Bagan"][/ultimate_heading] We reached Bagan at 4AM, after a quite uncomfortable bus ride; the AC had been much too cold and we hadn’t been able to sleep more than 1 or 2 hours... In addition to … Continued

23 Jan 2019

Hiking in Hsipaw and relaxing in Mandalay

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[ultimate_heading main_heading="Trekking in the jungle of Hsipaw"][/ultimate_heading] The night before leaving for Mandalay, the people I was travelling with and I had been up very late and as we had gone to the see the sunrise in the morning, I … Continued

23 Jan 2019

3 days at Nyaung Shwe – discovering the Inle lake

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[ultimate_heading main_heading="Inle lake"][/ultimate_heading] On Tuesday, January 8th, Iver, Thereza and I arrived with the night bus from Hpa-An to Nyaung Shwe (Inle lake). It had been a very long bus trip (departure 7PM, arrival 9:30AM), but I had slept quite … Continued

7 Jan 2019

Yangon, Kyaiktiyo and Hpa-An

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[ultimate_heading main_heading="Yangon - the city of pagodas"][/ultimate_heading] On Wednesday, January 3rd, I took a very early flight from Bangkok to Yangon and I arrived in Myanmar at 8AM. Everybody had been telling me so many good things about this country … Continued