Kinda hard to write a review now, beeing in another country already but I will try :)
Inle Lake:
From Bagan I took the aircraft to the big Lake, got a really nice hotel room, and it was comfortabely cool at night. Electricity was very sketchy, every other day one part of the village had no electricity, generators had to be turned on, from 7-10pm there was light.
Basically I was sleeping at 10pm cause there was nothing else to do.
Took a very nice boat trip around the lake.
Beach:
Took the aircraft once again to fly back to Yangoon ( 1h by air,20 hours by bus), took a bus to Pathein, and stayed in this nice river village one nite, people were really strarring at me cause I was the only tourist in town.
2hours local bus next day, five locals stepped into the bus after I boarded just to stand and look at me, was funny:)
Beach was nice but very very few tourist. On the 14 km beach I counted only 10 tourist in total, stayed at the cheapes bungalow availabel, 10 dollars, and was the only one there :)
After one day I met Bart (polish guy) again, so was happy to have someone to talk to, share some beers and eat some great snapper together:)
Was not really lonely but had lots of rats leaving under my roof, brrr, at night I tought they all gonna break through the roof and land on my belly brr.(and they stole my soap also!)
Of course electricity only 3 hours at night, litte scetchy if you get up at 5 am to catch a bus and have to pack stuff with a flashlight...
Back to Yangoon, some good nite beers with Paul ( OZ) and next day to Bangkok.
Well Myanmar what can I say....
Politics:
Yes sometimes it was rather hard for me not to be abel to talk openly, not with the locals of course but also not with english speaking tourist.
So we could not discuss any politicla issues in public cause people will understand english and I do not want to get them into trouble.
Some locals were talking openly, when nobody was close, nobody likes the goverment of course and they are all very sad about the situation and that are no tourist coming anymore.
In Mandalay I went to a theater of actors that are openly against the goverment and got arrested many times, had to do forced labour and one was arrested also during the Sep demonstrations.
Was kinda strange discussing everything very open and not knowing if police will come in and arrest them again.
Taking pictures was sometimes hard to, so I was not allowed to take pics of the movie theater, passports were controlled on bus rides very often, the goverment always wants to know where everyone is.
Lots of aereas are restricted for tourist, lots of hilltribes are still fighting agains government. And of course nobody was allowed to go to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi ....
Well if you wanna know more just ask :)
Inle Lake:
From Bagan I took the aircraft to the big Lake, got a really nice hotel room, and it was comfortabely cool at night. Electricity was very sketchy, every other day one part of the village had no electricity, generators had to be turned on, from 7-10pm there was light.
Basically I was sleeping at 10pm cause there was nothing else to do.
Took a very nice boat trip around the lake.
Beach:
Took the aircraft once again to fly back to Yangoon ( 1h by air,20 hours by bus), took a bus to Pathein, and stayed in this nice river village one nite, people were really strarring at me cause I was the only tourist in town.
2hours local bus next day, five locals stepped into the bus after I boarded just to stand and look at me, was funny:)
Beach was nice but very very few tourist. On the 14 km beach I counted only 10 tourist in total, stayed at the cheapes bungalow availabel, 10 dollars, and was the only one there :)
After one day I met Bart (polish guy) again, so was happy to have someone to talk to, share some beers and eat some great snapper together:)
Was not really lonely but had lots of rats leaving under my roof, brrr, at night I tought they all gonna break through the roof and land on my belly brr.(and they stole my soap also!)
Of course electricity only 3 hours at night, litte scetchy if you get up at 5 am to catch a bus and have to pack stuff with a flashlight...
Back to Yangoon, some good nite beers with Paul ( OZ) and next day to Bangkok.
Well Myanmar what can I say....
Politics:
Yes sometimes it was rather hard for me not to be abel to talk openly, not with the locals of course but also not with english speaking tourist.
So we could not discuss any politicla issues in public cause people will understand english and I do not want to get them into trouble.
Some locals were talking openly, when nobody was close, nobody likes the goverment of course and they are all very sad about the situation and that are no tourist coming anymore.
In Mandalay I went to a theater of actors that are openly against the goverment and got arrested many times, had to do forced labour and one was arrested also during the Sep demonstrations.
Was kinda strange discussing everything very open and not knowing if police will come in and arrest them again.
Taking pictures was sometimes hard to, so I was not allowed to take pics of the movie theater, passports were controlled on bus rides very often, the goverment always wants to know where everyone is.
Lots of aereas are restricted for tourist, lots of hilltribes are still fighting agains government. And of course nobody was allowed to go to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi ....
Well if you wanna know more just ask :)
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