Jan 19, 2018 | South East Asia
We didn’t arrive until later in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). We headed for Ben Thahn market and had some street food. Two meals and a couple of beers for £6. The next day we went for a walking city tour. HCMC has a mix of colonial and modern buildings. The traffic...
Jan 15, 2018 | South East Asia
Min-Yon-Mar A poem in the style of Purple Ronnie In Yangon we met our guide called Min Like all Myanmar people with a big grin A land of Temples, some are Stupa And always inside a statue of Buddha Sometime seated also reclining With gold leaf he’s always shining At...
Jan 15, 2018 | South East Asia
Our last destination on the tour was Inle Lake. It’s the second largest lake in Myanmar and at a height of 2,900 feet. We took a trip on a long boat to various sights on the lake. Inle is a bit like Venice (they need to use this in their marketing!). Houses are...
Jan 12, 2018 | South East Asia
We had a long boat journey to Bagan. The Bagan area has literally thousands of Pagodas. A few are Temples, but most are “Stupas”, which you can’t walk into as there’s only room for the obligatory Buddha statue inside. It’s popular (and...
Jan 8, 2018 | South East Asia
We didn’t take the Road to Mandalay. We flew there. Firstly we spent two nights in Yangon. The first day we wandered around town, starting in the market. I find the local markets fascinating for the range of strange foods that we don’t get back home. Yangon has a...
Jan 2, 2018 | South East Asia
We spent a night in Auckland before flying on to Hong Kong on 30 December for 2 nights. We arrived late afternoon and tried to go up on the Peak Tram for a night-time view of the lights of the city. There was a massive queue so we went for a few drinks instead to Lan...
