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Bagan Hotel review (Hotel Yadanarbon Bagan): Good food and pool area, with average sized and well kept rooms. Only complaint would be the noise of pigeons on the roof at night, which got a bit annoying as we tried to sleep. Overall, we would recommend this hotel. Favorite restaurant: Given […]

Myanmar in Review

March 12, 2017 in Myanmar by mikehillary

When we first arrived in Yangon, I was shocked by how developed and modern it looked under the city lights. Given the country just opened up to tourists for the first time after 50 years of military rule and foreign sanctions, I was expecting to see something a bit more […]

Lessons Learned in Yangon

March 12, 2017 in Myanmar by mikehillary

We had the opportunity to spend a day in Yangon before heading to Bagan, and then two more days there afterwards to wrap up our time in Myanmar. As we drove through the Uptown part of the city from the airport to our hotel, our first impressions surprised us. At […]

Uptown, Midtown and Downtown… The Differences of Yangon

March 11, 2017 in Myanmar by mikehillary

After 9 hours on a freezing, unsteady bus, we finally arrived in Bagan. It was 5 am and too dark to see anything around us. Being too early to check into our hotel, we took a taxi to see the sunrise over the famously beautiful landscape of Bagan. The most […]

Sunrises, Temples, and Buddhas in Bagan

March 10, 2017 in Myanmar by mikehillary

We arrived in Bagan on a 9 hour overnight bus from Yangon at 5:15am, found out our hotel room would not be ready for a few hours, and got back in the cab to catch the sunrise from one of the more famous and large pagodas (there are >2000 pagodas […]

Had to Get Sick Eventually… Bagan

March 2, 2017 in Myanmar by mikehillary