But For the Sky

Month: April 2012

  • Bagan: A Little Hair of the Dog

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    By now you are probably sick of us telling you about temples. Your eyes start to glaze over, you wonder when we might post something about food again (soon, promise!), and you close the tab before reaching the end of our post. We can’t blame you, since we were still nursing a serious temple hangover…

  • The Golden City of Yangon

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    Our first stop in Myanmar (which, by the way, was called Burma until the government changed the country’s name in 1989 when they replaced a slew of British colonial names) was Yangon (formerly called Rangoon, as in that ubiquitous crab appetizer that shows up on Chinese take out menus everywhere). We arrived in this hot sweaty…

  • Ethical Travel in Myanmar

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    We’ve visited countries such as South Africa with a sordid political and social history, a few such as India where class- and gender-based discrimination is rampant, and at least one–Uganda–where the current political reality is somewhere between worrisome and deplorable, but none can compare to Myanmar in terms of its government’s repression and persecution of…

  • Weekly Twitter Updates

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    Made the mistake of trying to log into @paypal from #Myanmar Having to go thru all kinds of crap to try to restore my account. Ugh. # #SiemReap seems lovely so far! Except that one of us is melting. #Cambodia in April– brilliant planning! # Haven't done a land border crossing since December, but we…

  • Video Dump 5: India and Nepal

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    It’s time for another round-up of videos we took that didn’t quite make it into our posts. This one will cover India and Nepal. Enjoy! First, from our first stop in India, an aerial view of the madness at the Howrah flower market in Kolkata Click here to see the video from the Howrah flower…

  • Khao San Road, Bangkok

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    Are you a bro on spring break from college looking to score? Then you’re going to love this place! Let me back up… We took the overnight bus from Krabi to Bangkok, and arrived at the unfortunate hour of 5:30 am. As we walked down Khao San Road toward our hotel, the smells of beer-stained…

  • Railay: Rock Climbing Above Gorgeous Beaches

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    Are you a bro on spring break from college looking to score? Then you’re going to hate this place! Which is exactly why we loved it. After the overdevelopment (and the relatively high prices and lack of pristine surroundings that come with it) of Koh Tao, we set our sights further south and on the…

  • Koh Tao: Slightly Underwhelming but Relaxing Nonetheless!

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    India and Nepal left us a bit disheveled. Well, mostly it was just India, but we never had the chance to catch up on comfort and relaxation while trekking in Nepal. So we made a beeline for a beach in Thailand. We needed a major recharging of our batteries so that we could genuinely enjoy…

  • Weekly Twitter Updates

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    It's strawberry season here and we've had at least one strawberry-coconut smoothie per day! Yum. #Hsipaw #Myanmar # Still drooling over the chicken, bean, and coconut steamed buns we ate yesterday… # Went on a short trek to stay in a Paulang village in #Shan State. Back in #Hsipaw &laying low until we head to…

  • Hiking in the Himalayas: The Ghorepani-Ghandruk Trek

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    After washing the Holi dye off our bodies (actually we would continue to find it in our ears, nose, and between our toes for a few days to come), we set off for the main attraction of our Nepal trip: a five-day trek through the Annapurna Conservation Area, a part of the Himalayas well known…