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The Taunggyi Fire Balloon Festival is an annual festival that draws huge crowds of local and foreign visitors. In the last blog, we showed you the day-time balloons in various animal shapes; today’s blog...
Loi Krathong, Yi Peng, and the Festival of Lights in Southeast Asia are all adopted from India. As Brahmin & Hinduism expanded to the east, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos took this a part of...
Mingalaba! .. มิงกาลาบา! As we mentioned in the first part of our blog on Burmese street food, Myanmar adopted food culture from their neighbours and merged them with their cuisine and tastes. Most Burmese...
Having lived in Bangkok for over ten years before moving north to Chiang Mai, I thought I’d tasted just about every Thai dish known. Our new neighbor Aunty Dang proved me wrong and has...
During the daytime at the Hot Air Balloon Festival, or “Tazaungdaing Festival”, in the Shan State of Myanmar, large animal-shaped hot air balloons are sent skyward. This is done with great pride and pageantry,...
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