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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)

Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Day Thirteen: From Kuala Lumpur To Langkawi – Some Touring In Kuala Lumpur, 14 November 1998

Early meet (at 8:30). Goodness knows why. Fortunately, we had a good driver today, who uses the extra half hour to show some sites -Masjid Jamek mosque and the colonial buildings nearby – courthouse & City Hall in background [see headline picture]…

Masjid Jamek mosque

…then round to Merdeka Square (including Standard Chartered building etc) where they play cricket at the Royal Selangor Club.

Then on to see the National mosque, railway station, and administration building , then onto airport for a flight to Langkawi.

The photographs from this day are pictures 52 to 59 in this Flickr album – click here or below:

01 We get back to Yangon early enough to go to Shwedagon Pagoda at sunset BM_1998_J08 (15)

A placeholder piece which shows the full itinerary and has links to the albums of all our photographs for this trip can be found by clicking here or the link below:

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

Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Day Twelve: From Yangon To Kuala Lumpur, Part Two – An Evening In Kuala Lumpur, 13 November 1998

Event free exit from Burma – arrived at KL – spent the best part of two hours getting baggage and then through KL traffic (awash with diplomats for APEC).

Set off promptly from Istana to Chinatown, where we bought some watches, a new suitcase for me and some cotton shirts for me.

Back to hotel with the loot, then off again for Golden Triangle (Jalan Alor) Hawkers stands, where we tried steamed balls, satays and dim sum very cheaply – beer cost much more than food !!

Home via traditional 7Eleven to get biscuits for Daiso.

The photographs from this part of this day are pictures 47 to 51 in this Flickr album – click here or below:

01 We get back to Yangon early enough to go to Shwedagon Pagoda at sunset BM_1998_J08 (15)

A placeholder piece which shows the full itinerary and has links to the albums of all our photographs for this trip can be found by clicking here or the link below:

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