Cranky German

Author: cranky

  • Tankers On The Shores Of Singapore

  • Morning

  • Streets of Yangon

    Around four in the afternoon businesses open on the streets and sidewalks. In addition to buying food, you can get your shoes repaired, loudspeakers refurbished, custom sewing jobs, electronic components that have been extracted with a small sledge hammer, radios and tapes. End your day with a perfectly prepaired betel nut.

  • Meditation Sleepy Makes

  • Cauliflower Harvest

  • Taxi!

    We were in a bit of a rush catching our train this afternoon. They are not so easy to find in Bagan as drivers purchase the rationed petrol by the bottle (see 2nd picture for typical gas station). We got a little worried about making it to our destination seeing the fear in the driver’s…

  • Where Nats Reigned

    Bagan eventually came to an end at the hands of the Mongols. Details vary but what remains of a city the size of Manhattan are only the temples. For a long while spirits by the name Nat, took over and mainly bandits dared to live between the temples. Today villagers work fields where houses stood…

  • Brick Temples

    Some 1100 years ago Cranky’s ancestors were still hunting wild boar with rocks. The people of Bagan were busy baking bricks to build more than 4000 temples.

  • Window Views

    Taking the train to [Unnamed Ancient Kingdom] is an unforgettable experience. The train slices through markets, runs a few feet from thatched roof huts and rumbles and bucks back in time. The train track is so uneven, we spend half the time suspended in weightlessness and wonder how the cars don’t get derailed. As the…

  • How To Buy A Train Ticket In Myanmar

    1) Spend three days looking for the most crisp US dollar notes you can find in Malaysia. 2) Exchange your US dollar traveler’s checks into Ringgit and Ringgit back into said US dollar notes. 3) Once in Myanmar carefully iron your dollar bills to take out any wrinkles as they are made from cotton but…