Tag: Asia World

Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Placeholder & Links, 2 To 24 November 1998

We went to Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, using World Dreams (formerly – indeed when we first started arranging this adventure it was still named -Asia World) as our agents. 

Here is a link to the World Dreams Itinerary -summary.

Here is a link to the World Dreams confirmation documentation – even more summarised.

Here is a link to the EPG – local, ground agent in Burma -itinerary for the touring part of this journey – more detail

I kept a detailed journal – if you are mad enough to want to try to read it from my scribbles, here is a link to a scan of it all “in the raw” – don’t ask why I scanned the pages from right to left. I shall Ogblog the whole adventure in some detail in the fullness of time.

The photos are well labelled in our photo albums, which should serve as a pretty useful travel log in their own right.

Below are the links to all of the labelled photos, divided into four conveniently sized albums, unimaginatively labelled as Part One through to Part Four.

01 4 November 1998 - Worshippers in the women's section of the Maha Muni Pagoda in Mandalay BM_1998_J01_ (2)
01 No sooner have we disembarked... BM_1998_J03_ (34)
01 We make loads of new friends on the road to Pindya BM_1998_J06 (11)
01 We get back to Yangon early enough to go to Shwedagon Pagoda at sunset BM_1998_J08 (15)

An Independent Trip To Northern Thailand & Vietnam, Part One: Arrival & Bangkok, 12 & 13 March 1996

Writing up our first major independent travel holiday, 25 years later, in March 2021, is no easy task. While I did take notes on this trip, which helps, I did not keep the sort of comprehensive journal that was my habit on earlier big trips and became my habit again later.

Further, Janie and I have both mislaid our printed itinerary for this adventure, although I know I did have a copy of it as recently as 2011 when we were arranging a return visit to Vietnam; infuriating.

Still, we have a wonderful collection of annotated photos, which helps. I also still have our trusty mid 1990s copies of the Lonely Planet Guides to Thailand and Vietnam, well thumbed and helpfully folding open easily on the more oft-used pages.

So let’s go!

12 March 1996 – Left London on time! Event free flight.

I told you the notes are quite light. I’m pretty sure we flew Thai Air. Last class it would have been, but on Thai Air that wasn’t too bad.

13 March 1996 – Arrive Bangkok on time (6:20 am). Went to BelAire Princess [now BelAire Bangkok] with drunken guide Kai.

Bathed and then set off for Jim Thompson House (interesting).

See headline photo and also the one below.

Then on to Chinatown for fine noodle lunch and look around markets etc.

Chinatown & markets, Bangkok style – above and below

Took tuk-tuk back to hotel – slept.

Dined in the hotel – Thai meal – then slept more.

All of our photos from the Thai leg of the journey can be found on Flickr through the link here and below.

=01 13 March 1996 - Jim Thompson's house, Bangkok - exterior 011