Yangon may not be the capital city of Myanmar but still is Myanmar’s largest city and its most important commercial center. Many travellers or backpackers will start their Myanmar backpacking route in Yangon as it is easy to fly in from South East Asian countries. Yangon is an interesting city that is full with so …
Varanasi The historical city of Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. ‘Colorful’ and ‘spiritual’ are the best words to describe the charm of Varanasi. The city is sacred to Hindus, Buddhist and Jains, and it is considered to be one of the holiest places around the world. It is …
It is a great thing to follow your passion. Having complete dedication to something in an area of life is required, whether it’s your work or your hobbies. Seeing snow in real life is one of my travel bucket list item. Some people live in cold weather amongst the snowy mountains tops. Some people live …
So, before starting of any adventures in 2018, I just started with a digital detox trip. It was a road trip and I really felt nice travelling with a group after a long time. We spent two days in the middle of nowhere, actually it’s a village named Tehla near Sariska Tiger Reserve, Alwar district …
India is a country for explorers who are seeking culture, heritage, spirituality, mountains, beaches and unexplored natural beauty. As part of our exploration, this time we headed to ‘Rishikesh’, where the Ganges River comes down from the Himalayas. The 5 hour road trip from Delhi to Rishikesh will keep one engaged while the landscape changes …
Day 2 We woke up a little late on the second day’s morning and had our self-service breakfast with some bread and bananas. The hostel itself has a good scenic view from the topmost floor which has the background of Aravalli hills and one can even spot the fort walls at a far distance. After …
I was surprised to see the layers of Rock Mountains in the desert state, Rajasthan. We were on our 5 hours road trip from Delhi to the world famous pink city of India, Jaipur. The oldest range of fold Rock Mountains (called Aravalli Range) of India was welcoming us to Jaipur. As it was winter, …
Discovered many marvelous doorways and windows in Jaipur, the Pink City, Rajasthan – India. Richly carved wooden doors, miniature windows, decorated with motifs of peacocks, flower and petal decorated door, fruits and vase designs door, super cute small windows and doors with copper carving are commonly seen in City palace, Hawa Mahal and in all …
(English Below) ကမာၻ႔အဆန္းက်ယ္ဆံုးျပတိုက္ေတြထဲမွာ တစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ျဖစ္တဲ႔ ေဒလီက အိမ္သာျပတိုက္ ေဒလီက အထင္ကရေနရာေတြလည္း စံုေအာင္ေရာက္ဖူးျပီဆိုေတာ႔ ဘယ္သြားလည္ရင္ေကာင္းမလဲရွာရင္းေဖြရင္း အိမ္သာျပတိုက္ဆိုတာေတြ႔တာနဲ႔ အေတာ္႔ကိုစိတ္ဝင္စားမိသြားပါတယ္။ တစ္ခါမွ မၾကားဖူးဘူးရယ္ ဘာတဲ႔ အိမ္သာျပတိုက္။ ဘာေတြကို ျပထားမွာလဲ။ ညစ္ညစ္ပတ္ပတ္ေနရာၾကီးလား ဆိုျပီး စဥ္းစားမိရင္း ျပံဳးမိသြားတယ္။ နာမည္နဲ႔တင္ စိတ္ဝင္စားဖို႔ေကာင္းေနတာမို႔ ေဒလီျမိဳ႔လယ္ကေန ၄၅မီနစ္ေလာက္ကားေမာင္းရင္ေရာက္တဲ႔ အိမ္သာျပတိုက္ကိုအေရာက္သြားခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ျပတိုက္ဆိုေပမယ္႔ ခမ္းခမ္းနားနား အေဆာက္အဦးၾကီးလိုမ်ိဳးမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ တစ္ထပ္တိုက္ကိုမွ အက်ယ္ၾကီးေဆာက္ထားတာမ်ိဳးပါ။ ပန္းရန႔ံေလးေတြေမႊးပ်ံ႔ေနျပီး စိမ္းစိမ္းစိုစိုေနတဲ႔ ပန္းရံုေတာၾကီးက ဝင္လမ္းအမိုးေပၚကေန အရိပ္မိုးေပးထားပါတယ္။ ျပတိုက္အတြင္းထဲမဝင္ခင္ အျပင္ဘက္မွာတင္ အိမ္သာပံုစံ၊ အိမ္သာတြင္းပံုစံအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးကို တကယ္႔လက္ေတြ႔ပံုစံအတိုင္း ေဆာက္လုပ္ျပထားတာကိုေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ အိမ္သာေတြဆိုလို႔ ညစ္ပတ္တဲ႔ေနရာလို႔ ကိုယ္ေတြထင္တာမွားေရာေပါ႔။ တကယ္႔ကို သန္႔ရွင္းသပ္ယပ္ျပီး အင္မတန္ စနစ္တက်ေဆာက္လုပ္ထားတာပါ။ ဘယ္နွခုနွစ္က ဘယ္ေနရာေတြမွာ သံုးတာ၊ ဘယ္နွနွစ္ခံတယ္၊ ဘယ္ေလာက္ကုန္က်မယ္၊ …
International Museum of Toilets – Weird, quirky and interesting! Read More »
Sometimes, I think people forget the amount of money that can be saved while relying on public transportation instead of private van services or taxis. As a backpacker, I’ve found that by using public transportation, I can save nearly 90% of my money, and it’s fun too. I can use this much saved money to …
ျမိဳ႔ပတ္ရထား နဲ႔ ဝါးတားဘတ္စ္ စီးျပီး ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႔ၾကီးကို အသြင္သစ္တစ္မ်ိဳးျဖင္႔ ျမင္ၾကည္႔ျခင္း။ ??️❤️ Yangon Circular Train It was a cloudy Sunday afternoon when we decided to see Yangon’s colorful life by riding the Yangon Circular Train and newly launched Yangon Water Bus. Although we had already covered other public transportation like sidecar (trishaw) ride and bus ride (which is fun …
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မႏၱေလးကအထင္ကရေနရာေတြကို တစ္ရက္တည္းနဲ႔ စုံေအာင္ေလ်ွာက္လည္ၾကည္႔ျခင္း။ Mandalay – The last royal capital of Myanmar Mandalay is the second largest city and was the last royal capital of Myanmar. It’s also the economic center of Upper Myanmar and considered the center of Burmese Culture. Mandalay was founded by King Mindon in 1857. The city is famous for being as …
ရွမ္းျပည္ေရာက္တုန္းက စားခဲ႔သမ်ွ သိပ္အရသာေကာင္းလြန္းတဲ႔ ရွမ္းအစားအစာေတြ။ ????? Every Asian country is known to have its own delicious cuisine but on looking carefully, one would find that within a country itself various regions and states have their own typical variations of cuisine. Along the same lines, the Shan state of Myanmar has a distinct set of dishes which have …
ကေလာေစ်းေန႔ Kalaw is a hill town in the Shan State of Myanmar. It’s famous for trekking in colorful hills. There is a market in the center of the town that opens everyday where one can purchase local products. ‘Kalaw Market Day’ means a day on which many vendors from nearby villages and tribes come to …
ေတာင္ၾကီးမီးပံုးပ်ံပြဲ ??❤️☺️ (English Below) ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အလည္တစ္ေခါက္ေရာက္ခဲ႔ရာက ခ်စ္စရာရွမ္းဓေလ႔၊ ေဖာ္ေရြပ်ဴငွာလွတဲ႔ ေတာင္ေပၚသူေတာင္ေပၚသားေတြ၊ အရသာေကာင္းလြန္းတဲ႔ ရွမ္းအစားအစာေတြကို မေမ႔နိုင္ သတိေတြရေနဆဲပါ။ ေတာင္ၾကီးမီးပံုးပ်ံပြဲကိုလည္း မထင္မွတ္ပဲ ၾကံဳၾကိဳက္ခဲ႔ေသးတာမို႔ ေန႔ဘက္အရုပ္မီးပံုပ်ံေတြ၊ ညဘက္မီးပံုးပ်ံၾကီးေတြကို တအံ႔တၾသေငးေမာၾကည္႔ခဲ႔ရတဲ႔ သိပ္ကိုလွပလြန္းတဲ႔ေန႔ညေတြျဖစ္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ သြားလည္မယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ႔ အေႏြးထည္ေလးေတြယူသြားၾကဖို႔နဲ႔ အနီးကပ္သြားမၾကည္႔ဘဲ ခပ္ခြာခြာကေနသာၾကည္႔ၾကဖို႔ မွာပါရေစရွင္။ နွစ္စဥ္နွစ္တိုင္း ျခိမ္႔ျခိမ္႔သဲက်င္းပေလ႔ရိွတဲ႔ ေတာင္ၾကီးမီးပံုပ်ံပြဲကို အေရာက္သြားရင္း ရွမ္းအိုးစည္သံေတြၾကားမွာ ေမ႔ေမာကာ ရွမ္းရိုးရာ ဓေလ႔ေတြကိုခ်စ္မိသြားမွာ အမွန္ပါ။ Taunggyi balloon festival is happening now (26th October to 3rd November, 2017). (Taunggyi is a capital city of Shan State, Myanmar) I was …
? Tharkayta Crocodile farm (သာေကတ မိေက်ာင္းေမြးျမဴေရးစခန္း) ? There is a lesser known interesting spot near downtown yangon, Tharkayta Crodcodile farm. It is a government-run farm that breeds crocodiles to maintain their population. Its located next to Pazundaung Creek. There are many different sizes of crocodiles divided by age in their respective area. Small crocodiles are very cute …
Shwedagon Pagoa ( Burmese: ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရား) or Shwedagon Zedi Daw ( Burmese: ေရႊတိဂံုေစတီေတာ္) is gilded stupa located in Yangon,Myanmar. The 325 tall Shwedagon pagoda was constructed more than 2,600 years ago. The Shwedagon pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar,as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present …
It was early in the morning when we started our road trip to the Taj City. A road trip is always a good idea and it’s worth fuel and time. Being on highway was awesome without any traffic jam and noisy crowd. Morning chill and fresh breeze made us active and the greenery on road …
On the first day of October, me and my travel partner decided to experience our very first bird watching at Keoladeo National Park (Bharatpur Bird sanctuary, Rajastan). Bird watching was a good way to escape from the hustle bustle of daily Delhi life. We carried a DSLR with a telephoto lens so that we could …
( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) 10. Red Fort Lal Qila, ‘Red Fort’, the large historic monument is located in Old Delhi. It was the main residence of the emperors of the Mughal dynasty and the ceremonial and political center of the Mughal state. The red fort was constructed in 1639 by Shah Jahan and is named after …
Old Delhi Food As we turn around the corner from spice market to Chandni Chowk, adjacent to the 17th century Fatehpur Mosque’s gateway, we found ‘Chainaram’s’ – a sweet shop founded in 1901. The delicious aroma of the sweets was very inviting. A lot of customers were queuing in front of the shop and there …
One often hears the word ‘New Delhi’ and one might wonder there would be an ‘Old Delhi’ too. Well, I found that there indeed is an area called ‘Old Delhi’ and in fact it is a very interesting place. Hence on a Saturday afternoon, I and my travel partner did a half day walking tour …
( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) Connaught Place CP is a well-known place for shopping and evening outing. It’s also a main commercial area of Delhi. It’s constructed like two layers of circle called inner circle and outer circle and a park in the center. In outer circle, there are plenty of book shops, food shops, restaurants and …
( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) From Part I Jantar Mantar If you have ever wondered how the ancient people predicted the time, day, month and year, then you should definitely go and see Jantar Mantar. The giant astronomy instruments at Jatar Mantar complex will leave you spellbound. It is located in central Delhi and has 13 astronomy devices. It …
( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) New Delhi is a cosmopolitan city with a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural population. It’s also the center of the Indian bureaucracy and political system. India is famous for her several amazing architectural buildings and historic sites, and Delhi is also home to a lot of old traditional and cultural sites to wonder. Delhi …
( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) Around the end of rainy season, the days before Thadingyut (Festival of Lights), on first Friday of October, as soon as I reached home from office, I thought to travel somewhere to take a break from work pressure and Yangon urban life. Travelling is the first thing which come into my mind as …
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( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) Around the end of winter and starting of summer, on my second day in India, I visited one of the world’s most famous landmarks and symbol of India “The Taj Mahal”. I was asleep on the way to Agra from Delhi because I was so tired of 5 hours flight from Myanmar to …
( ျမန္မာဘာသာ ) In mid-July heat, encountering people dressed in orange, walking very energetically on the road is something unusual for me. Men, women, teenagers and young children, all wearing a similar orange one looks to be very beautiful to me and its very eyes catching too. When I look at them closely, I noticed that …
