by eliasc64 | May 29, 2015 | Destinations, Europe, Short Visits, Spain
This was my second visit to Barcelona. The previous visit for business purposes (here) so I had very limited time to walk around. This time, it was different. Four days only, joined by friends and my kids, but we had plenty of time to walk around and soak in the city...
by eliasc64 | May 16, 2015 | Asia, Destinations, Myanmar, Trips
Burma, nowadays, officially known as Myanmar, is a large country. At 676 thousand strangely shaped square kilometers, with a long tongue protruding out in the south, a diversified population of 52 million, very few english speakers, a number of regions blocked by the...
by eliasc64 | May 10, 2015 | Asia, Destinations, Myanmar, Myanmar trip 2015
The following morning we flew to Yangon, to complete our Myanmar trip. Our guide and driver waited for us in the airport. The usual stuff: polite but very limited knowledge of the English language. The city is pleasant, more westernized than one should expect and has...
by eliasc64 | May 10, 2015 | Asia, Destinations, Myanmar, Myanmar trip 2015
We arrived in time in the airport to catch our flight to Ngapali that left before the scheduled time! The heat wave struck the second I went out of the airplane. After we cleared immigration (! weird, we were not coming from abroad) we headed to the Amata resort, a...
by eliasc64 | May 10, 2015 | Asia, Destinations, Myanmar, Myanmar trip 2015
The second largest lake in Myanmar is only 116km² in size and a mere 2m deep on the average. Some seventy thousand people lead their lives on these waters. After lunch in one of the lake side restaurants, we got on the boat to our lodge. The afternoon light was great...
