Burma has yet to develop sufficient infrastructure to deal with the large-scale tourism that will surely come. Case in point: our flight from Yangon to Bagan. We weren’t willing to devote a full day on a bus or train, so we decided to splurge for a flight. The cheapest we could find cost $230 per […]
Our Burmese Days in Yangon
We hoped that visiting Myanmar (aka Burma) just five years after the country opened up for tourism would allow us to experience the perfect travel balance: early enough so the country would not yet be overrun by other tourists, but late enough for sufficient infrastructure to develop to allow for a stay of relative comfort. […]
An Illuminating Trip to India
In full honesty, India was the country I was most nervous about visiting on our one-year RTW trip. I wasn’t sure how I’d react to the crowds, pollution, dirt, and otherwise general chaos that I feared would engulf me as soon as I stepped off the plane. After reading in my guide book that between […]
Kandy, Ella, and the Slow Train in Between
After a few days in Colombo, it was time to venture into the center of Sri Lanka for some cooler weather and greener scenery. We took a train to Kandy, the cultural capital of the country. With sizeable Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Christian populations, Sri Lanka is a religious melting pot, though Buddhism is the […]
Circling Southwest Sri Lanka
I try very hard to have no expectations for the places we go on our trip. I find this usually prevents me from getting too high of hopes, and I usually end up pleasantly surprised. Chris, on the other hand, can’t help himself. Case in point: Sri Lanka. Chris had sky-high expectations Sri Lanka, going […]
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