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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: October 2011
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Wednesday, October 5, 2011. We checked into our cute bamboo bungalow on the beach (a bit of a splurge at $12/person, but so worth it), and met up with Danielle, Adriana and Zuhud, who were all surprised to see we'd actually made it. Danielle (a friend of Dewey’s from Sun Valley) and her boyfriend, Zuhud (Oeoet), live on. The Indonesian portion of the Island of Borneo) where they work for Schlumberger. We had to switch hotels part way through our stay because they ran out...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Malaysia: Penang & the Cameron Highlands
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Malaysia: Penang and the Cameron Highlands. After checking into our room we headed out for a late-night bite to eat. After realizing that if you stand by a hawker stall for very long they just start serving you we had Koay Teow soup at a Chinese hawker stall on the main drag for a little over $1, where we shared a tiny little table and it's 3 stools with another Chinese fellow. Or thosai ( dosa. Fresh Indian flatbreads) with dal. We also visi...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Kalaw, Myanmar
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Saturday, November 12, 2011. We decided while we were on the bus that we were going to get off the bus early, in a small mountain town named Kalaw (elevation 4356ft), and hike the rest of the way to Inle lake. The bus happened to drop us off right in front of the Golden Lily guesthouse, where we were mobbed by various trekking guides and guesthouses eager to have our business. Trekking is the main (only? A kitchen hu t. Boys in the first village eagerly gather around to ...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: November 2011
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Monday, November 28, 2011. For our last days in Burma we returned to Yangon for a couple days. Now confident that we were going to reach the end of our Burmese days without running out of money, we headed back to the big central market for a little souvenir shopping (not the tacky kind). In between the 2000-odd stalls in the central market are a variety of food vendors. Some look more appetizing that others, but they are all full of character. Late at night we arrived in...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Hsipaw, Myanmar
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Monday, November 7, 2011. Of the bus was cargo, and they had even modified the bus so that the seats were a little higher up (towards the roof) and a little closer together so that you had maximal cargo room, minimal knee space and they could even put boxes (or in this case, buckets) under. Typical water buffalo-drawn cart along the main road in Hsipaw. A surprising sight in Myanmar. The. National League for Demoncracy. 65279; We did a quick tour of the main street and a...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: September 2011
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Saturday, September 24, 2011. Patong to Koh Phi Phi. We ventured down to the beach, but it was very windy. Somehow (even after our 4-hour mid-afternoon nap) we were still tired, and not really feeling the Patong night-life, so we headed back for a good nights’ sleep. The next morning, we booked a flight to Bali, and a ferry to Koh Phi Phi (weren’t really feeling Patong, or the weather) and then we rented a scooter ($6 a day! During one of the longest heavy-rain spells we...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Inle Lake, Myanmar
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Monday, November 14, 2011. Inle Lake, Myanmar. A pagoda near the edge of the river in downtown Naungshwe. Nyaungshwe is a neat little grid down on the edge of Inle Lake with a well established tourism scene. As a result prices are significantly higher ($3-$6 for dinner! But there are more options as well. We enjoyed our first pizza since leaving home, and we were impressed. They actually had a wood-fired stone oven and the pizza was good. On our third day in Nyaungshwe o...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Yangon, Myanmar
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Thursday, November 3, 2011. Before traveling to Myanmar, or even before reading this blog (if you are really ambitious) we suggest the following reading list:. 1984" by George Orwell (currently forbidden in Myanmar and a number of other communist countries). Finding George Orwell in Burma" by Emma Larkin (short read that gives you a good overview of the past and present political and social climate in Burma). Burmese Days" by George Orwell. The New Light of Myanmar.
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Northern Thailand
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Monday, November 28, 2011. For our last days in Burma we returned to Yangon for a couple days. Now confident that we were going to reach the end of our Burmese days without running out of money, we headed back to the big central market for a little souvenir shopping (not the tacky kind). In between the 2000-odd stalls in the central market are a variety of food vendors. Some look more appetizing that others, but they are all full of character. Late at night we arrived in...
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Lisa & Dewey - South East Asia: Mandalay, Myanmar
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Lisa and Dewey - South East Asia. Friday, November 4, 2011. We arrived at twilight and just as were trying to figure out how to get to our prefered guesthouse a man comes up to us holding a sign that says “Royal Guest House”. Perfect! We jump in. Half an hour later we are dropped off at the guesthouse to find it is full (? Kind of food that was less oily. After lunch we venture into the zeigyo. 65279; . Workers pound the gold (between sheets of bamboo parchment) by hand into increasingly thinner waffers.
