After 3 awesome days in Bagan, we headed to Mandalay for two nights; a city that many people skip altogether. With not many iconic sights, and lacking the worn-down, colonial charms of Yangon, Myanmar’s second city is dirty and griddy, but underneath the dirt, street trash, and exhaust fumes that permeate the city, one can…

I cannot even begin to describe how amazing this place is. If you are even remotely considering coming to Myanmar, do it now, because once this gem of a city becomes well known, it is sure to be over-run with tourists. After a bumpy flight, we landed in Bagan around 8 in the morning and…

George Orwell’s critical portrayal of British Imperialism at the begining of the twentieth century seems a long ways off from the Myanmar of today. Nevertheles, the legacy of the British empire has left its toll on Myanmar’s history over the last century.   Always a country I was fascinated with, the decision to come to…