Escaping the city while in Mandalay, Myanmar isn’t that hard. We did a couple day trips from Mandalay, but the coolest (at least temperature-wise) was our trip to Pyin Oo Lwin.
Taipei has many faces. It’s green and lush, but turn a corner and it looks a bit grungy. Most of the buildings you’ll see are worn down and roughed up, but then you get a peak at an amazing piece of architecture like the Taipei 101 building. The majority of your “Kodak moments” involve people — and there are a lot of them (people, not “Kodak moments”) in Taipei. At night, you’ll get a variety of lights and colors. During the day, the sun can be a bit shy. It tends to hide behind a cloud of pollution, but it lays out a nice even light.
This is part 5 of my “The People, The Culture, The Food – Myanmar” series.
Episode 1: Inle Lake, Myanmar.
Episode 2: Mandalay, Myanmar.
Episode 3: the Outskirts of Mandalay.
Episode 4: Yangon
This is part 4 of my “The People, The Culture, The Food – Myanmar” series.
You can watch episode 1 here: Inle Lake, Myanmar.
Or, watch episode 2 here: Mandalay, Myanmar.
Or, watch episode 3 here: the Outskirts of Mandalay.
When it comes to traveling to expensive countries, Sara and I always tell ourselves, “We’ll go when were older, and richer.” While we are waiting to strike it rich, there are plenty of places to see that are inexpensive. That’s part of the reason we moved to Southeast Asia. However, when a cheap flight to Taipei came across our web browser, we couldn’t resist a week-long vacation to possibly the greatest food city in the world. We discovered that it was possible to travel Taipei, Taiwan on the cheap.
This is part 3 of my “The People, The Culture, The Food – Myanmar” series.
You can watch episode 1 here: Inle Lake, Myanmar.
Or, watch episode 2 here: Mandalay, Myanmar