20.11-2014 Myanmar, Yangon, day 2

Day 2 started very late (as expected) since we slept 11+ hours and almost missed the breakfast, the most important meal of the day. It wast OK, mixed European and Asian food. Omelet was handmade by the chef and the best part of the breakfast. Coffee was also excellent, being brewed at site from imported coffee beans.

Outside our hotel entrance is a vintage car, that is still registered and I suspect fully functional.

After taking some time to get ready, we finally left to city at 13.30.

The small road from river takes us past small golden temple. 

Foreigners need to pay the entrance fees, where as locals can enter free.

The local roads are busy and lot of them are under construction.

 Workers fitting the layout for congrete.

Why not add enough congrete as you are fixing it just every 30 years. 

Short film of the local traffic and scenery (sorry taken from moving car with normal camera so quality might not be the best possible.

 We had meeting with architect friend for few hours and then went to see more hotels, where we could possibly stay after Monday.

 Esta hotel is at downtown but  the web site was propably made when it was new. Inside the corridors smelt stale and the rooms felt very local style inside. Price/quality didn't meet here.

 Panda hotel is old privately owned hotel also at downtown. Rooms are considerable bigger and with "sweet" you can have 2 rooms with sofas and chairs.Price they ask is pretty high, propably because the frequent customer base but the manager promised to count the special price for us. We will see...

Thamada hotel is old hotel near center of the city. They have old style but spacious rooms to offer for long staying quests but this manager also needs to consult their boss or owner for the offer.

After lot of sitting in car, driving around (or sitting in traffic) it was time to eat again (hey, it was 6pm already and the lunch was skipped due the brunch).  Thamada hotel has a good  restaurant downstairs called 365 Cafe.

We liked to eat some Chinese food here and ordered:

Chicken with vegetables and pepper

BBQ Roasted pork a'la Hongkong style

Roasted duck a'la Hongkong

Noodle soup with vegetables

Since we were near home of Gin and Tonic, that was the favorite drink for Rudyard Kipling as well as English colonists, living in India and Burma, I just had to have one. It tasted as good as last time over 20 years ago in Rangoon. Next one will be 20 years later here, hopefully in same place.

After short visit to some relatives, we headed back to hotel. This time we decided to wake up earlier, have proper breakfast and head for tourist stuff  i.e Shwedagon Pagoda, reclining budda, Sule pagoda, maybe some museums and art galleries... Or not. Well... read after tomorrow for the glimpse what tourist can see in Yangon.