Category Archives: Myanmar Travel Blog

Notes from my photographic trip to Myanmar in 2017

On the Road to Mandalay

Lie in.  🙂 Until 5.35. 🙁 After breakfast we go to Bagan airport and got the flight to Mandalay, which took 25 minutes ground to ground, followed by a bus drive of well over an hour through the city to Continue reading

Monday, February 13, 2017 in Myanmar Travel Blog, Travel

Cheerfully Manic

Sunday. We started the day very early (again!), with a pre-dawn shoot at one of the temples, which ended with watching the balloons take off in the rising sun. After breakfast we went into Bagan’s main market town (Nyaung U Continue reading

Sunday, February 12, 2017 in Myanmar Travel Blog, Travel

Brilliant Balloons, Terrific Temples, and a Hip-Hop Heffalump!

There’s a pattern starting to emerge for this trip: late meals, short sleeps, and then amazing visual experiences which make it all worthwhile. After a somewhat slow dinner last night and a very early alarm this morning I woke with Continue reading

Early Starts

Just in case there’s any risk of our body clocks getting back in line, we have a 5am start to return to Swedagon Pagoda before sunrise. This is essentially a reverse of last night, with the buildings initially under artificial Continue reading

Friday, February 10, 2017 in Myanmar Travel Blog, Travel

In the Air Again!

I’m off on my travels again – another photographic trip with Light and Land, this time to Myanmar (formerly Burma). Having recently downloaded a copy of Canned Heat’s Greatest Hits I was tempted to call this blog “On the Road Continue reading