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Yao Yao’s Top 10 Islands: #8 Benguerra Island
December 19, 2014Yao Yao remembers the island as the place she got to “ fly a plane” (she sat up front),…
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Yao Yao’s Top 10 Islands: #9 Pantelleria
December 12, 2014When you conjure up the quintessential Italian island in your mind, it probably looks a lot like Capri or…
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Yao Yao’s Top 10 Island Countdown: #10 Singapore
December 5, 2014In our abbreviated stay, we ate at a popular and fairly touristy restaurant on Clark Quay, where I dove…
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Sleigh Bells or Temple Bells
November 28, 2014Ever since Yao Yao was of school age, we’ve struggled with the Christmas Situation. In a nutshell: We live…
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Myanmar: Travel Tips, Tales & More…
November 21, 2014Myanmar is one of the most enticing, mystifying, beguiling, and sometimes foreboding locations you will ever see. Golden pagodas,…
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Ngpali, Myamar: Bay of Bengal
November 14, 2014But once we made the short ride to the hotel, our mood shifted – because there it was, the…
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Inle Lake: A Floating World
November 7, 2014Enchanting. Ethereal. Exquisitely fragile. This is Inle Lake. It is a world of floating markets, floating monasteries, floating towns,…
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Another Taste of Bagan
October 31, 2014I admit that we had high hopes for Burmese food before we actually got there. Myanmar is bordered by…
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Myanmar: Beguiling Bagan
October 25, 2014No matter how you got here, the best Road from Mandalay is by riverboat.
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Wayside Water Stations in Myanmar
October 17, 2014Buddhists in Burma form what are called “water-donating societies” (wainay ya thukha) and set clay water pots along roads…