We thought Southeast Asia was going to be extremely cheap. I knew from my previous trip to the region that you can get a plate of pad thai for under $1 or a nice room in a guesthouse for under $30. But our RTW trip demands a fast pace of travel, and we found that […]
A Boy, A Girl, and an eBike in Bagan
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. […]