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    Burmese Daze: Myanmar in 28 Photos - Highlights Of Myanmar/Burma From A Tourist's Eye
    Burmese Daze: Myanmar in 28 Photos - Highlights Of Myanmar/Burma From A Tourist's Eye
    Burmese Daze: Myanmar in 28 Photos - Highlights Of Myanmar/Burma From A Tourist's Eye
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    Burmese Daze: Myanmar in 28 Photos - Highlights Of Myanmar/Burma From A Tourist's Eye

    By Elisabeth Sowerbutts

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    Burmese Daze - A Trip Through Burma (Myanmar) in 28 Photos

    Considering a trip to Burma (Myanmar) - or just curious about this exotic and long-closed country? Or maybe you'd like to take a step back in time to a country where ox carts are still a normal form of transport?

    Be inspired by these highlights of Burma, focussing not on the pretty postcard views but the people, the transport, and images of a country caught in a time warp. Burma really is a country like no other.

    Each photo is accommpanied by a page of commentary from the author's visit to the country. Towns covered include not just the well known Yangon (Rangoon), Mandalay and Bagan (Pagan) but more off-the-tourist trail places such as Hpa-An and Setse.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElisabeth Sowerbutts
    Release dateMay 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301823727
    Burmese Daze: Myanmar in 28 Photos - Highlights Of Myanmar/Burma From A Tourist's Eye
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    Elisabeth Sowerbutts

    I’ve been traveling since I was seven. My mother was ill and I was packed off to a holiday in Ireland – from our home in Scotland at the time – I don’t remember the holiday – but I do remember the excitement of catching my first flight – unaccompanied! I must admit over the years the romance and excitement of planes has worn off a bit but I still get excited showing up at the airport at the start of a new adventure.I’ve been to every continent except Antarctica – and that’s on the list. I’ve traveled solo and with friends. I’ve traveled with a partner. I’ve stayed in flea-pit hostels and luxury hotels. I’ve used travel agents and booked my own trips. I have bought almost every major travel guide on the planet and used most of them.Travel is my passion – but it has never been my career. Though I became a geologist at least partly because I was hoping to get a trip to the Antarctica research station my School had access to - didn’t quite work out though (couldn’t be bothered with the PhD). Geology took me to some remote corners of Papua New Guinea and Australia – and yes there is a very good reason that some places are “off the beaten track” – not all of which are good. Retraining I deliberately chose a field which was in high demand so a) I would earn good money to fund my travel habit and b) would be easily enough be able to get another job if an employer didn’t understand my requirement for 2-month holidays. Computing did fulfill its side of the bargain but in the end the boredom of doing something that I grew to hate was too much.These days I work in the back bedroom, in New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, with easy access to the airport and the world. I work in my pajamas when I feel like it. I’m a writer, developer and promoter of websites about various topics – but travel is still my passion – and that’s why I developed my Lis’s Travel Tips eBook series.

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    Burmese Daze - Elisabeth Sowerbutts

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Rangoon and the South

    Rangoon Central Telegraph Office • Monk At Shwedagon Pagoda • Disabled Access To The Ferry • Moulmein Sunset • Quails Eggs Vendor on a Bus • Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery • Cattle on the Beach - Setse • Burmese Curry • Pagoda On A Hill – One of Many • Big Reclining Buddha

    Heading North

    Myanmar Railway’s Computer System • Burma’s Under-Aged Drivers • Train Travel in Burma

    Inle Lake

    Lonely Planet Photo Op - Inle Lake • Hand Weaving - Inle Lake • Burma - Happiest People in the World? • How Many Pagodas Are Too Many? • Manpower in Ngaungshwe

    Bagan (Pagan) Temples

    Bagan Pagoda • Coffee Maker Pyn Oo Lwin • Buddha Twins - Bagan • Souvenir Seller - Bagan • Group Photo - Mt Popa

    Northern Burma (Myanmar)

    On The Road To Mandalay • Rice Paddies - near Hsipaw • Goteik Viaduct • Market Pyin Oo Lwin • Nuns' Procession Hsipaw

    Final Words • About the Author

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    Myanmar Map Showing Image Locations (Where Relevant). Tap and zoom for more detail (varies depending on your eReader).

    Introduction

    I'm not a pro-photographer, instead I take photos pretty much only when I travel. The photos are my souvenirs. Cheap and lightweight (even more so now they are digital), they are as essential as my diary, acting as memory triggers of past trips. I don't claim to be an arty photographer, but I try to find images which reflect the country I'm traveling in.

    This is not your normal collection of Burmese photos. I have chosen the off-beat and quirky, the normal life photos rather than the postcard images. I tried for a photo a day. As the maximum length of tourist visas is 28 days, there are 28 photos. The order is more or less the order we visited, flying into Yangon (Rangoon) and out of Mandalay.

    We traveled to Burma in late 2012. We traveled independantly, and used local transport. We only used a tour guide for day trips. We planned our own travel and itinerary based on Internet research.

    Place Names

    Bagan/Pagan, Rangoon/Yangon, plenty of names have changed in Burma

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