November 9, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle and the team flew back to Yangon yesterday and are getting ready to leave. Some members will head over to Cambodia and Vietnam to continue their adventures, while others head home to go back to work! What remains are some great memories of the Myanmar trek and a […]
November 7, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports that the team finished their trek to Inle Lake on schedule, and are now taking a free day there today to do some exploring. She reports “we are having a wonderful time at Inle Lake. Here is a photo of one of the fishermen on the lake. […]
November 5, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports by sat phone that the team is making good progress on their three day overland trek to Inle Lake. They have been weaving through the forests, farms, and many little villages along the way. Yesterday they started in Kalaw and trekked to Tar Yaw and then after […]
November 3, 2013 Today the Myanmar team flew to Heho, then drove to Kelaw via the Pindaya caves. Jenni Fogle reports: “we visited the Pindaya caves which have more than 8400 Buddha statues. Pretty impressive. The countryside here is beautiful – almost like Tuscany. We are all squared away in a nice villa in Kelaw […]
November 2, 2013 We had another great day in Bagan. We climbed the 777 steps to the Mt. Popa shrine, enjoyed a beautiful Bagan sunset, then finished with dinner at a restaurant owned by the sweetest family you could ever meet. I think they gave us twice as much food as we ordered (but didn’t […]
November 1, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle managed to send a few photos and a report from their visit to the western part of Myanmar: “We just returned to Bagan from three amazing days in the Chin State. We stayed in a remote lodge near the town of Kanpalet and took day trips from there, […]
October 30, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports by sat phone that the team traveled west by jeep into Chin State from Bagan (near Mandalay), and now have reached the village of Kanpalet in the hillcounty. They have a couple days to explore this area, which is inhabited by the tribes of Dai, Upu, and […]
October 28, 2013 The Myanmar trek team flew north to Bagan today, the ancient city that was once the capital of the Pagan kingdom that unified Burma back in the 11th-13th centuries. There were once over 10,000 temples in Bagan and even today several thousand remain. IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports that “we visited a […]
October 28, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports that our first IMG Myanmar Trek is off to a good start. Everyone made it to Yangon, Myanmar (previously known as Rangoon, Burma) with all their luggage, and has settled in to their rooms at the Traders Hotel in the bustling downtown area.  Jenni reports “After breakfast […]
