LivenGuide

Dashboard of Zaw Thiha

Zaw Thiha

180 Credits Price: 8 USD/hr

Location:
Myanmar - Yangon
Gender:
Male
Languages:
Transports:
Bus
Car
Train
Foot
Boat
Availability:
Day
Night
Weekend
Interest:
Finding Friends
Business
Mood
In English
Health
Lifestyle

About me:

Tour driver

Friend list (16)

Contact Livenguide

France - Paris

Add Friend
Lê Trung Tĩnh

United Kingdom - London

Add Friend
Cao Xuân Hồng Lĩnh

Vietnam - Hồ Chí Minh city

Add Friend
Tina Nong

Vietnam - Hồ Chí Minh city

Add Friend
Tony Le Eurotour

United Kingdom - London

Add Friend

INFORMATION OF Zaw Thiha

Activities created by Zaw Thiha

Zaw Thiha Myanmar - Yangon 19:14 25/08/2016

Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival (end Sept-early Oct) , Inle Lake , Shan State , Myanmar

Situated in Inle Lake, one of the most dazzling and magical places in Asia. It is held on a grand scale for 18 days, usually falls in October. Four Buddha Images out of five from Phaung-daw-oo Pagoda are carried on royal barge and conveyed around 14 villages on the Lake. The barge is towed by the boats of leg -rowers and hundreds of boats follow the procession. The large crowds of people gather on the lake-shores to celebrate the occasion. It is really a splendid sight.

Contact Livenguide, Lê Trung Tĩnh and 7 others like this.

Lê Trung Tĩnh Very beautiful. These photos remind me those festival in a small town South of Vietnam where Khmer, Chinese and Kinh celebrate the harvest. Oh those old beautiful days! 20:38 25/08/2016
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0
Lê Trung Tĩnh Zaw Thiha, could you please embellish a little bit more your: add more photos, descriptions. Just take this one as an example: https://www.livenguide.com/tour/123-cotswold-beautiful-old-english-villages.html 21:09 25/08/2016
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0
Lê Trung Tĩnh Otherwise, your posts are splendid. 21:09 25/08/2016
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0

Please to comment

Zaw Thiha Myanmar - Yangon 15:10 25/08/2016

Understand Myanmar The city is an amalgamation of British, Burmese, Chinese and Indian influences, and is known for its colonial architecture, which although decaying and beyond appreciation, remains an almost unique example of a 19th-century British colonial capital. New high-rise buildings were constructed from the 1990s (and some are scarily unoccupied and left as ghost skyscrapers and hotels as seen along Upper Pansodan Rd.) as the government began to allow private investment (while former national government buildings such as the massive Secretariat Building, as the capital is shifted to Naypyidaw, have been left to rot). However, Yangon continues to be a city of the past, as seen by its longyi-wearing, betel nut chewing and spitting pedestrians, their friendly or even familial attitude towards strangers, its street vendors and its pungent smells. Take note that Yangon's former name is not the only victim of symbolic changes in this country. For one, the country's name has...See moreUnderstand Myanmar

The city is an amalgamation of British, Burmese, Chinese and Indian influences, and is known for its colonial architecture, which although decaying and beyond appreciation, remains an almost unique example of a 19th-century British colonial capital. New high-rise buildings were constructed from the 1990s (and some are scarily unoccupied and left as ghost skyscrapers and hotels as seen along Upper Pansodan Rd.) as the government began to allow private investment (while former national government buildings such as the massive Secretariat Building, as the capital is shifted to Naypyidaw, have been left to rot). However, Yangon continues to be a city of the past, as seen by its longyi-wearing, betel nut chewing and spitting pedestrians, their friendly or even familial attitude towards strangers, its street vendors and its pungent smells.
Take note that Yangon's former name is not the only victim of symbolic changes in this country. For one, the country's name has been changed. To add up to this identity crisis going on in this country, this city has been stripped of its capital status, the capital relocated to a secluded new site called Naypyidaw built from scratch. The flag too has been changed, recently redesigned in 2010, replacing the old one which replaced another one slightly more than a decade ago.
One noticeable observation is seen along Yangon's southern streets perpendicular to the river. Diagonal parking is set off against the traffic direction in these one-way streets.
Time also is an oddity. Usually countries set their time in one-hour increments from GMT. This country set it in 30-minute increment difference.
Maybe because Myanmar had traumatic encounters with foreigners as far back as the Mongol invasion when it sacked the city of Bagan, the treacherous colonization by the British and the Japanese as well as the brutal cruelties inflicted by them - it developed its idiosyncrasy and to the point isolationist behaviour towards foreigners, but it is not totally xenophobic as North Korea. As Buddhists, Myanmar people are kind and welcoming to any stranger as any guest. As long as that guest-stranger does not impose something to his lifestyle, it's OK. Somehow, they don't want to fully and sweepingly adapt to any foreign idea.
Their bit of contempt is manifested in condoning the government to practice impositions on foreigners such as a tight grip on the internet as well as the hotel TV - indispensable gadgets by tourists to the outside world in their everyday lives here and in their hometown; requiring foreigners to register and log their particulars every step of the way from every hotel down to the museum they've been, and in every mode of transport they use. Not to mention that any local who billeted a foreigner in his house overnight was long perceived by the community as an indiscretion and subject to imprisonment. Attitudes are changing rapidly, however, as a result of the government's increasing openness to foreign trade and movements towards democracy.
Yangon is the most exotic of all Southeast Asian cities. A walk down a typical street, the sights show noticeable commercial and traffic signs written mostly in local alphabet, not to mention the appearance of wandering monks in burgundy robes and the gilded pagodas as this is expected in this Buddhist country, and down to the locals keeping up their appearances. Here, everyone seemed to be comfortable with walking barefoot - indoors or outdoors; with faces applied with sun protection cream from the extracts of a three branch called Thanaka; smiles reddened by bloody red juice from chewing betel nut; as well as being used to images of men wearing a sarong-like garment, the longyi.
The Longyi - in Myanmar men wear either trousers or a Longyi, a tubular piece of cloth similar to a sarong.
The Ubiquitous Help-Yourselves Water Station - This image is noticeable in hot Laos and Cambodia but they pervade more here in devout Buddhist Myanmar installed at every five or so home or establishment.

Contact Livenguide, Lê Trung Tĩnh and 10 others like this.

Lê Trung Tĩnh Excellent. I will take time to study your tour very carefully and hopefully that we can travel together. Cheers! 18:00 25/08/2016
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0
Zaw Thiha Thank for your comment 18:40 25/08/2016
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0

Please to comment

Zaw Thiha Myanmar - Yangon 14:39 25/08/2016

Taunggyi Balloon Festival, Shan State, Myanmar .

Planning on going to Taunggyi Balloon Festival this year?

The 2016 dates for Taunggyi Balloon Festival are as yet unannounced, however they look to be the 8th November – 14th November 2016 to coincide with the first full moon after Buddhist lent end.

Contact Livenguide, Lê Trung Tĩnh and 8 others like this.

Lê Trung Tĩnh Thank you for marvellous photos. We have never known that before. 18:01 25/08/2016
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0
Tony Le Eurotour Beautiful photos! Thank you Zaw Thiha! 06:30 01/03/2017
- Likes 0
- Dislikes 0
- Thank you 0

Please to comment

Zaw Thiha

180 Credits Price: 8 USD/hr

Location:
Myanmar - Yangon
Gender:
Male
Languages:
Transports:
Bus
Car
Train
Foot
Boat
Availability:
Day
Night
Weekend
Interest:
Finding Friends
Business
Mood
In English
Health
Lifestyle

About me:

Tour driver

Friend list (16)

Contact Livenguide

France - Paris

Add Friend
Lê Trung Tĩnh

United Kingdom - London

Add Friend
Cao Xuân Hồng Lĩnh

Vietnam - Hồ Chí Minh city

Add Friend
Tina Nong

Vietnam - Hồ Chí Minh city

Add Friend
Tony Le Eurotour

United Kingdom - London

Add Friend