Booking for next year Having retired too early last night, I woke around 1am. I realised that this was also the first day of AirAsia’s latest zero-fare sale (shortest fights are zero-fare but longer flights are at tiny prices). I managed to buy HKG-KUL-KCH-KUL-HKG for next Christmas for about NZD200 (11 hours flying) uninterrupted by […]

Above:  The countryside between Heho and Mandalay is very red. Would you do this to a friend? I’m leaving my hotel in Yangon today where I have been chatting to an Israeli guy there too. He seems to be in Yangon indefinitely, waiting for his friend to come from Bangkok at a date that hasn’t […]

There was an early-morning feel when I stepped out of the hotel after breakfast at 0830. Businesses and stalls were just starting to open up and the air was still very cool in the shade. Walking to the Botataung Pagoda, it becomes apparent that Yangon is the Havana of SE Asia when it comes to […]

Exploring & Airline Ticketing After breakfast, I took a walk around the Sule Pagoda neighbourhood. There were a few churches, mosques and a synagogue tucked between the many old concrete multi-storey blocks. More men wear pants now than during my previous visit, when the longyi (sarong). It is still common for women and children (and […]

Above:  Dinner on kindy-chairs. Due to natural light in my room being obscured partially by an external wall (and thick curtains), I didn’t wake up till around 9am. I hadn’t slept well last few nights; I seemed to wake up a fair bit feeling sweaty. I put the disturbed sleep down to the pseudoephedrine which […]