Backpacking Myanmar Series: Yangon

Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar, is a good place for a city walk. The buildings that you'll see here have an old world charm that boasts of rich architecture.

Unfortunately, majority of the stores were closed during our visit as Myanmar observes a full week of celebrating the Thingyan Water Festival and their New Year.

On the flip side, we got to celebrate and join the locals in enjoying all-day water fights around town.

Yangon houses a lot of Buddhists temples. Some of those we've visited were Shwedagon, Sule, and Botataung near the pier.

Backpacking Myanmar Series: Bagan

Bagan, Myanmar

When we landed in Bagan, the first order of the day was to look for transportation that could take us to our hotel and since again we were in the middle of the Thingyan festivities, we went out of the airport only to see all the other tourists rushing to take all the few available taxis until there was none left. We were about 8 travellers left with no ride, staring at nothing across the vast and dry land that surrounded the airport. Luckily one mini assembled pick up truck arrived and we all scrambled to find a comfortable spot on the floor. The catch: the whole back area was open making us all vulnerable to the trigger-happy locals armed with pails and water hoses when we make our way across town. We had to rush waterproofing all our backpacks before we reach any form of civilization when true enough, ice cold water started spraying to our faces that we all were shivering within the first 10 minutes of our ride. But it was all fun and happy. Ciel and I were dripping wet on the carpet at the hotel reception when we arrived.

Travel Local: Dumaguete City

My siblings spent their college days in Silliman University and with them knowing the ins and outs of this pretty laidback city, we took a quick 2-day visit to some of the prettiest places with cool walls. :)

Scooby's branch beside Silliman (on the 2nd floor)