Monthly Archives: August 2013

Myanmar (Burma) Part II: the Bagan

After a few days in Yangon, we headed north to the Bagan!  The Bagan was the site I was most excited to see before going to Myanmar – it’s an enormous complex of Buddhist temples which are often compared to Angkor Wat. Even though I had read a bit about the complex before we went, […]

Myanmar (Burma) Part One: Yangon

I started off my summer with an amazing trip back home to New York! It was so great to get to see my family and friends… the two and a half weeks went by waaay too fast!!  I was really sad to leave America, but coming back to Asia was a little easier because I […]