Myanmar

More weird food you don’t necessarily have to try!

March 1, 2019January 18, 2014

Some of you might have thought that I had already unveiled all the weird food I have eaten when I published my article 7 dishes you don’t necessarily have to try, which is still a very popular post. But I have now remembered a few …

On a boat through the Ayeyarwaddy Delta – Brackwater, pagodas and hospitality

March 1, 2019July 2, 2012

A wrecked taxi spits me out at the pier on the Ayeyarwaddy. In an instant, I am surrounded by a hord of kids in dirty, ragged clothes. They follow me laughing and gesturing. There are hundreds of people walking around in the harbour, but I …

At the Inle Lake: Ghost ride on a water buffalo

March 1, 2019June 17, 2012

Superstition? Sunstroke with hallucinations? Or, after all, something you can’t really find words for? On a day in February in the heart of Burma I wasn’t so sure anymore… This morning has had a surreal touch already. The sweltering heat, the dusty haze above everything, …