On our last day in Mandalay we went to Mingun, the place where they once started to build the largest stupa of all times. It should have been bigger than the pyramids in Gizeh. Slight problem: it was never finished. There’s only the base and that has been badly damaged over time, also because of […]
After two days in Bago we have traveled to Kyaiktyo which is around 100 km further away. The ‘k’ is pronounced ‘ch’ as in ‘cheap’ so it sounds like ‘chaichiyo’. The town itself is not very exciting. The main attraction is the big balancing rock which you can find further up in the mountains at […]
After 452 days and 2 hours (or 15 months) of traveling, well over 125 thousand kilometers, roughly 36 countries/territories, around 90 flights, crossing the date line 4 times, posting more than a hundred stories to this blog and shooting more than 18 thousand pictures, we’re finally home. And that feels very very weird. We had […]
