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Due to the boycot, we had to change money in the black market. We decided to go to a market in Yangon, to get our pile of money [Yangon / Myanmar]
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Yangon is a lively city. We spent the first couple of days to get used the country, that we visited for the first time in 1998 [Yangon / Myanmar]
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Street side cafe in central Yangon [Yangon / Myanmar]
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The street where our guest house is located [Yangon / Myanmar]
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The fantastic Schwedagon Pagoda is the biggest temple in Myanmar [Yangon / Myanmar]
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The beautifully lit Schwedagon Pagoda by night [Yangon / Myanmar]
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People are praying at the Schwedagon Pagoda by night. It is often too hot to visit the temple during the hot daylight hours [Yangon / Myanmar]
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Farmer with old-fashioned cart in Pyay [Pyay / Myanmar]
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One of the absolute highlights in Myanmar is the very photogenic Bagan temples. This is the Sulamani Pahto seen from the Shwesandaw Paya [Bagan / Myanmar]
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The fabulous Anando Pahto temple is one of the most impressive temples of Bagan. The construction is a Buddhist temple built in 1105 AD during the reign (1084–1113) of King Kyanzittha of the Pagan Dynasty. It is one of four surviving temples in Bagan [Ba
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Interior of the Ananda Pahto Temple [Bagan / Myanmar]
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The temple complex of Bagan is great to explore on bicycle or motorcycle [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Time for reflexion in the Shwegugyi Pahto [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Buddha sculpture [Bagan / Myanmar]
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The most famous temples of Bagan can be busy nowadays. But if you wander a little bit further from the main sights, you will find beautiful and atmospheric temples like this one, the Gubyauknge Temple [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Ivonne climbing one of the temples [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Sunset and sunrise are the most awesome moments to be in Bagan [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Village life is still continuing between the centuries old temples [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Balloons over Bagan [Bagan / Myanmar]
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For many tourists, a hot balloon trip over the temples is a highlight of their visit to Bagan [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Bagan is in our opinion one of the top-sights in the whole of Asia [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Ivonne posing with a local family [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Reclining Buddha [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Edwin & Ivonne in Nagayon [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Local girls with the typical face paintings in Myanmar [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Buddha image in Ywahauggyi [Bagan / Myanmar]
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We explored Bagan by bicycle [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Herding the cattle beweent the shrines [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Life goes on as it did hundreds of years ago [Bagan / Myanmar]
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Local tourists [Bagan / Myanmar]