Nov 14 - arriving in Rangoon and Rose Garden Hotel

Nov 14 - arriving in Rangoon and Rose Garden Hotel
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Up early and we went to the Rose Garden Hotel. We arrived 0800 in the morning to the hotel.

	The 10 days trip in Burma with a link to Google Maps for more details. Click for bigger picture. Impressive entrance at the Rose Garden.
	The pool doesn't look bad either.
	In the morning, Martin and Jorunn tried to have breakfast, but no dice. This is the juice bar. This is the cheese bar. Unique to Thailand. Martin hasn't seen one any where else in Thailand.
	Overview of the main dinning room At Amari hotel. Time for a coffee before taking of to Yongon.
	Our flight, Airbus 330. Jorunn landed in Yangon.
	City tour, big sacred tree. Central tower in Yangon.

	Fruit stall. A barber shop.
	Offerings in form of money bills hanging from the grid. Jorunn trying to get money out of the ATM. No success. Martin is standing bye.
	The details of the ATM that didn't want to give Jorunn the money. Our hotel from the ground floor. A real nice hotel.
	Jorunn and our friendly cab driver Ye-Lin. He spoke good English and a very friendly character.
	The dimension of the pool. It was 18x9 meters. It was a lovely pool.
	Unfortunately, neither Jorunn nor Martin managed to use it. Jorunn and Martin at the water fall next to the pool.
	Time for Martin's first Burmese lager beer. The restaurant was very tasty. A pleasure for the eye.
	A money tree. Donations given by the public. A big tall building in the center of the town.
	The fruit stalls were plentiful. A video from Yangon. A golden pagoda in the middle of the town.
	One of the old colonial buildings. The flag of Myanmar.
	Tax office for middle income tax payers. Our local tour guide with the Albatros sign.
	Another British styled building. Tomas, our guide with the local one.
	A sacred tree. A barber's shop going on with his daily business.
	Another fruit stall. Lunch table in a local restaurant.
	Jorunn and Martin having an excellent lunch, very tasty and not spicey at all.

On Thursday November 15^h, it was time to go Inle Lake, a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Taunggyi District of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in Myanmar (Burma). It is the second largest lake in Myanmar with an estimated surface area of 44.9 square miles (116 km2), and one of the highest at an elevation of 2,900 feet (880 m).


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