I am now back in Singapore.
I have spent 17 days on another planet (not my words) and after 3 hours and fifty years, I am back to the Earth and life I remember …
I am changed – I believe that I know less now about the world and life that I thought I did three weeks ago.
Pictures and more detailed accounts will come when I have had a chance to gather my thoughts and understand better what I have experienced.
We are back in Yangon, after visiting Mandalay, Bagan, Inle Lake and the Golden Rock. Extraordinary. I have taken over 1200 photos, some I expect to be quite nice.
Today we leave for the Delta region and than a few days on the beach. I will be back in Singapore on 11 November and can update everybody of what has been going on.
I will be a while before you will see any photos as I will have to sort through a lot of them to decide which are good enough for publication.
It has certainly been a n adventure so far – just a little more to come.
Earlier I wrote:
I am in Mandalay, leaving today for Bagan.
Excellent trip, but no access to email, phone or anything else. This may be only way I have to spread news so please pass the word …
Yangon was frenetic, Mandalay is much more laid back. Unfortunately. it has been raining most of the time, but we have still manages some interesting visits.
Will keep in touch with this post as I go along…
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Next, you’ll have to figure out how to blog from a mobile phone! (I know you said that you’re REALLY isolated).
I’ve recently moved to a Blackberry, which gives me Internet access (at least in North America, since my service is CDMA). Thumb typing really demotivates me to be blogging, but I have been writing up a few tweets on Twitter.
David, I have visited Myanmar on 2000. Things might have changed since then, but at that time it was forbidden to carry a mobile phone, even fax machine where (almost) out. Electricity was available (Mandalay) only for 2-3 days per week, hotel and one restaurant was running with electrical power generator, but was easy to finish the dinner with candlelights. Unless things are recently changed, your Blackberry is really useless. :-))
Ciao, Dino
Things have not changed much. Phones are allowed, but I am not able to connect to the local system – not authorised! A local cim card costs 1000 USD.
Therefore, this is the only communication tool I have been able to find.