Wednesday, October 11, 2006. Yangon dimango - Part One We land, the airport structure in steel shee

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Trip Start Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 End Date travel: Friday, October 27, 2006
Tuesday, October dimango 10, 2006. Info ... I'm back at the start for another trip, this time the destination is the Myanmar former Burma (which, for convenience I will continue to call with the old name) and Cambodia. Distant countries a thousand miles, with cultures different from our own, and the story quickly read the books, heard on television for the events of recent decades occurred in Indo-China. The retrieved information on the guides dimango and the internet, they give a partial picture of the current situation, so I do not know that I will find in these countries totally unknown to me. They prepare the bags, camera dimango cards and reserves (recently I converted to digital by abandoning dimango my glorious Pentax mechanics), my inseparable notepads, pens, passport, dimango travel plans, guides, and not for past the necessary tickets. For the trip I chose two guides; To Burma (Myanmar): the first is the Ulysses Hubs - and, 2003 - (very nice for the descriptive dimango parts, which allow you to learn about the history, customs, geography and ethnicity), the second is the Lonely Planet -EDT - 5th Italian edition, March 2006 - (very useful for a list of the places and monuments to visit, as well as provide other "useful" for the trip). For Camboga: Ulysses Hubs - and 2003 - and the Lonely Planet-EDT - 5th Italian edition, January 2006 -. In the diary I will refer to the places I visited, indicating the reference page for the guide Ulysses Moizzi with (M p.), While the Lonely Planet-EDT will be denoted by (L p.), So that those who wish to learn historical details and has all the cultural references of the case.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006. Birth to Bangkok from home to the train station in Saronno (VA) where the group is being formed, we are 29 people, dimango I have already shared with some other trips, others know no other, and the first impression is good. At the station there that arriving by car, some by train, some with a van of an association of the country, who kindly offered to carry the luggage of travelers. Let us train tickets and we get on the Malpensa dimango Express 11.16, the train that connects quickly Milan Malpensa Airport, making a few stops in between. At 11.37 we Lombard airport, dimango the boarding procedure is slowed down by the whims of the airport that computer does not recognize some tickets, but after a few minutes of stand-by again and the group can board the suitcases. The flight to Bangkok is full, the group merges with other passengers who are traveling for those who work, who for trekking in the Himalayas, who falls in Thailand, those of us who are directly in other countries of the Indochinese peninsula. The flight is enhanced by the excellent service of Thai (Thai company) and after 11 hours of flying through a cloud cover, we get a view of the airport of Bangkok.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006. Yangon dimango - Part One We land, the airport structure in steel sheeting and is modern, very large, clean and tidy, call a sailing continues, it is really impressive. Long corridors leading to the boarding of those of us who only transit, we proceed to more than 1 km on walkways and climbed upstairs, transiting from the control for the shipment to Yangon, the capital of Burma, we sit at the exit, I look the watch, it's 6.35, the sun is already high in the sky, sleep begins to be felt throughout the flight practically has not slept, some read, some using the LCD monitor of the plane watching a movie, those who played, those who listened to music. After a short wait we take the direct flight to Yangon, the flight is short, about 50 minutes. The hostess of the Thai women present on the plane, before descending have paid tribute to a colorful and beautiful orchid, just a thought pleasing welcome. Looking out the window, the landscape looks like a flat expanse, dimango an endless paddy field. Irregular with many rice fields nearby waterways, some large adjacent river, dimango you see houses and palm trees, some houses are new, others look like huts. We land and I see the people who work on the edge of the track, the first impression is that he arrived in a developing country. The plane stops, go down, waiting for a bus is very rundown and in a few meters long journey leads us to the area of international flight arrivals. The airport from the impression of a large open yard, where those who pass must be careful dimango scaffolding and present