Bagan Moments
After the torrential rain of the previous night, the roads were quite muddy as we went shopping with Su, our cooking teacher, to the covered market in Nyaung Ou to… Read more »
Through Pokkaku
What makes traveling in Asia so enjoyable is the surprise encounters that illuminate a different culture and way of daily life. It makes you think: What would my lifestyle look like… Read more »
Monywa Moments
We are now leaving Mandalay and crossing over a new 2008 bridge across which is splayed a scene of green rolling hills, each one crowned by a white stupa with… Read more »
Mandalay Meandering
Mandalay – the name with the ring of the exotic. in reality, it does retain a sense of old Burmese culture but with an overlay of modern development. The commercial… Read more »
Cruising Yangon
Our tour truly begins today, although we have already been saturated with enough colors and smells to bring home more than a whiff of Myanmar. Mary and Michael arrive as… Read more »
The Circle of Yangon
Sometime reading tour books and doing on-line research provides a sense of what lies ahead in an experience in a strange land. And sometimes it creates a false preconception. … Read more »
Yangon Beginning
There is a patchwork of rich greens and browns as we fly into Yangon, above the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar/Burma. It is the end of the rainy season so the… Read more »
Myanmar/Burma 2016
There are few places on earth that elicit more of the sense of the exotic than the country that was once called Burma, with its heart in Rangoon, ruled by… Read more »
Ronda
We are on the public bus between Grenada and the small mountain town of Ronda. There are brown hills covered with golden grass and olive trees, rockier than my northern… Read more »
Granada
Granada is a bustling city with its main street lined with banks and stores and a sense of commerce on the move. Here, as in Madrid, it is hard to… Read more »