Tag Archives : ethnic cuisine and food

Yangon

Yangon, Former Capital of Burma


We flew into Burma from Thailand and got the Burmese visa in the airport. When queuing for the registration, we had a small talk with a farang (this is how they call white people in Burma, just like mzungu in Eastern Africa). He said that people in Burma are incredible, they are even much more hospitable than Thai people. We…

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Malta

Malta: 10 Major Impressions


This is what we saw and learned it 6 days in Malta in low season (January). 1. Unless you are interested in beaches, 3-4 days are more than enough for visiting Malta, especially if you take a car. Two main islands are really small; it took less than a day for us to explore half of the main Island by…

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Kozmodemyansk (Mari El Republic, Russia)


If tourists only knew about the existence of Kozmodemyansk, they would never go to the places like Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kamchatka, Karelia, Baikal, and other popular regions and cities of Russia. We are absolutely serious: Kozmodemyansk is Russia off the beaten path with unique charm and not less attractions per capita than in Moscow; these attractions are also very unusual. Moreover,…

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