My Burmese Days
Myanmar is one of the most interesting countries to travel within.
Maybe not the most convenient, but
 fascinating. The country is
modernized to some degree, but still untouched in many ways. Here you can
experience big city life with satellite television and internet cafes, or
trek in remote mountains and visit tribal villages surrounded by tea
plantations and terraced rice fields.
Coming here from the modern Bangkok, which most travelers do to
come here, you enter a new world. Old cars and buses, terrible bad
roads, bad power supply. Still, the same heat, the same people and the
same religion.
By the way, the title of this web site is of course a paraphrase of
George Orwell's very first novel, "Burmese Days", which I actually red
during my travel. In it's own way it still gives a nice portrait of the
country - the bloody heat, the mosquitoes, the red spitting that comes
with the beetle nut chewing and... the corruption.
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