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The ambitious plan was more than accomplished: This is the story about exciting excursions from Mandalay, wonderful gilded temples and city streets...
Everything from South and Southeast Asia
This category contains all Sandalsand’s articles from countries in South and Southeast Asia. You will find an introduction to this region under the Destinations menu.
VIDEO – Myanmar – The Train to Inle Lake
Join the train from Kalaw in the Burmese highlands to Shwenyaung in this video. This is a very nice way to arrive at the world famous Inle Lake....
The Train from Kalaw to Shwenyaung
I was heading for Inle Lake and the train from Kalaw to Shwenyaung was to be my third train journey in Myanmar. This is a great country for train...
VIDEO – Myanmar – The Train Across the Gokteik Viaduct
The Gokteik Viaduct is the highlight of one of the world’s most exciting train journeys. Watch this video. Have a look at this video about the...
The train across the Gokteik Viaduct
I was introduced to Myanmar trains on the bumpy Yangon to Mandalay night train. I grew up on one of the world’s most epic train journeys, the train...
VIDEO – Myanmar – The Night Train to Mandalay
The night train from Yangon to Mandalay in Myanmar is a very exotic train journey. 16 hours of shake, rattle and roll past endless paddy fields and...
The Night Train to Mandalay
Kipling’s one-liner that it will “be quite unlike any land you know about” does come in handy in a description of Myanmar train journeys. Like the...
Central Yangon
Yangon is same-same but different from other large Southeast Asian cities in several ways. Traditions are heavy in architecture and clothing,...
The Amazing Shwedagon Pagoda
“Shwedagon Pagoda”, I had told the taxi driver when I stepped out of the Strand Hotel, the best preserved remnant of the British...
Myanmar – The Plan
In 1985 I was sitting on the front porch of my little bungalow on the Thai side of the Mae Sai River looking over to Burma. The country was...
Pictures from Cambodia
This is a collection of pictures from Cambodia, the result of a trip to different parts of the country, from the north and to the south. If you look...
A visit to Sihanoukville
Trying to get a tan in the rainy season, here is a visit to Sihanoukville, Cambodia's seaside resort, during the rainy season. This is the story of...
VIDEO – Cambodia (4) Sihanoukville
What you will see in this video from Sihanoukville is that an expected couple of days under the sun in the southern Cambodian town proved...
Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia
Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia and most important city. What a capital, what a past and (hopefully) what a future! In 2009 I spent a week in...
VIDEO – Cambodia (3) Choeung Ek
This video is from a visit to the Killing Fields with a memorial and mass graves at Choeung Ek outside Phnom Penh. Audio: Traditional folk music...
