This post takes us through all but the last two days of a six-month trip that ends twelve hours from the time published at the bottom of this post. I’d really like to skip ahead those twelve hours and maybe…
Homeless and destitute in Rangoon. Domes. Birds on a wire. Thatched green roofs at the labyrinthine, colonial-era Rangoon Central train station. Ghosts in transit. Religion and the state at Rangoon Central. Footballs at the station. Footballs crossing the road. For…
This monster post takes us through another two weeks in Burma, stopping along the way in the royal capital Mandalay, hill station retreat Kalaw and aquatic breadbasket Inle Lake. Watch this space for a flurry of pent-up posts coming later…
800-year old temples dot the landscape at Bagan, in the parched plains of central Burma. An intriguing hybrid of Hindu and Buddhist imagery, and the westernmost point of the massive Angkor kingdom that once swept across much of southeast Asia,…
This entry, the second of three in the series, dates from our overnight trip upcountry to Bagan last Monday, when sixteen hours in the bus became twenty-four after a road became a river and we found ourselves stranded in the heart of mosquito country……
I’ve taken so many photos since leaving Singapore on Saturday, and the internet here in Burma is so slow, that I’ve broken this week’s photo post into three sections. This entry takes us through Monday morning. Welcome to Rangoon/Yangon. I…
Not much to show for a week in Singapore. After a pair of false starts we finally leave for Burma tomorrow morning so keep an eye on this space in the coming weeks. Will bought a hot new Nikon digital…
Greenery reclaims the 800 year old corridors of remote Beng Mealea, a highlight of the Angkor complex and the last temple we visited in Cambodia… … …Will explores Beng Mealea… … … A young girl watches a multicoloured melange of…
Will watches the monorails and overpasses of Sentosa Island pass by out the window of an air-conditioned bus. Thirteen sets of escalators at the awe-inspiring National Library in Singapore. Will and my mum stretch outside the Burmese embassy after a…
Another week, another batch of photos from Sumatra. This will be the last you’ll see here of Indonesia; tomorrow we leave for Singapore to meet up with my mum for two weeks in Burma. A lone tree stands guard at the base…