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planxty Says: You can see this place from just about anywhere along the strand, as it occupies a high bluff overlooking the Ayerawaddy River. the Mya Tha Lun paya was built in 1929 and is a most impressive structure. You may be approached and asked for the camera fee which, if I remember...
planxty Says: Do the Strand, as Roxy Music once said. In this fairly quiet town, it seems to be de rigeur to take an evening stroll along Strand Road in the late afternoon and early evening. There are a number of cafes to choose from, where you can take tea and snacks and watch the...
Rolex guest house.: Basic but adequate.
planxty Says: One of only two places in Magwe licensed for foreign visitors, this place could definitely do with a lick of paint, but it's clean and certainly adequate for a night or two. As far as I could tell, I was the only person staying there, and they gave me the room with the small...
Gon Guest House: Dreadful and overpriced place
Honeysuckle_de Says: Small, cell-like rooms with bars in front of the windows, a toilet so dirty that I didn't even dare setting down my toilet-paper anywhere and sheets that can't possibly have been changed this century, let alone this year. I don't know how or why the Lonely Planet describes...
Monalisar 2 cafe / restaurant.: What exactly is this place?
planxty Says: Difficult to know whether to tip this place as a thing to do, a restaurant or nightlife, as it's all three. It is quite a sizeable restaurant / bar beside the Ayerawaddy River, affording great sunset views (see seperate tip). After the sun goes down, a (very talented)...
planxty Says: For short trips around the town, a trishaw is perfectly OK, the journey from the bus station costs 500 kyat (50c US). For longer journeys out of town, perhaps to the Mya Tha Lun paya or the Dragon Lake you will need a jeep taxi like the one pictured. The picture was actually...
planxty Says: Waiting for my pick-up from the bus station in Magwe, I decided on a bit of lunch, and went to the Khin Min Thu restaurant which is one of the numerous restaurants on the main highway opposite the station. I ordered hot and sour pork (pictured), which turned out to be lovely...
planxty Says: I never did discover the name of this pagoda, which is situated on the road back to the bridge from Nga Pa Kwe Taung (Dragon Lake, see seperate tip). You will see it as you pass, so just ask your taxi driver to stop, he probably will anyway.There are some nice views over the...
planxty Says: In the words of the old Flanders & Swann song,"Mud, mud, glorious mudNothing quite like it for cooling the bloodSo follow me follow, down to the hollowAnd there let me wallow in glorious mud."Well, I don't know about cooling the blood, but there is an abundance of warm,...
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Small, cell-like rooms with bars in front of the windows, a toilet so dirty that I didn't even dare setting down my toilet-paper anywhere and sheets that can't...
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A road, literally, less travelled.
So goes the old Scottish song about Loch Lomond. If you are travelling North from Yangon towards Bagan ( a fairly normal travellers itinerary) the buses tend to use the "high" road. I decided on a...
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An interesting break on the way south from Bagan
A busy market centre in the central plain of Burma and a place where local buses from Bagan stop their trip. Unless you have a direct ticket to Yangon, you're likely to spend some time in Magwe while...
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