.....including a marathon run at the Bagan Temple complex and another at the Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia.
We'll be flying into the capitol, Yangon on November 24, spending a day in the modern capital then will fly north to the old historical capital at Mandalay to visit some temples there. After a day in Mandalay, we'll fly to the the massive World Heritage Site at Bagan.
Of what was once a religious complex of over 5,000 temples--some over a thousand years old--some 2,000 still remain today and we'll spend a couple of days sightseeing at Bagan. On the third day we'll be running the Bagan Temple Marathon on November 28. Alida, Jon and I will be doing the half and Devin, of course, the full. The course runs through the temple complex and several small villages.
It's not my first time to visit Southeast Asia--I worked several times in Thailand, one of my favorite destination places in the world--but this will be the first where I won't have to get up in the mornings and go to work.
...and it will be the first where I have my family with me. Devin, Alida, and I will be flying Houston to Moscow to Singapore to Myanmar--28 hours. At Singapore, we'll meet up with Jon who is a member of our Houston Dynamo supporter group and the four of us will do the trip together.
We'll be joining a running group that we've traveled to Iceland, Turkey and Costa Rica with before so we may know some others. The Bagan Temple Marathon promises to be a fantastic experience:
The day after the marathon, we'll be flying to Inle Lake which features a quaint fishing village entirely built on stilts. We'll spend three days exploring there then will separate from the group and the four of us will fly to Bangkok--arriving in the evening. Alida has us booked in a centrally-located hotel and the next day we plan to see the Reclining Buddha, the Royal Palace and maybe do a water taxi on the Chao Prya River. Almost 24 hours after arriving, we'll fly to Cambodia.
At Siem Reap, we'll visit the World Heritage Site at Angkor Wat. I visited there about a decade ago and know it to be a fantastic place. We'll have three days there and, in the middle, they are having a half marathon! We're all signed up and since I'm in this for the medals and they offer one for the 10K, I'm going to slack off and do the 6.2 mile race. This should be really interesting since it is also run within the Temple complex.
For me, this will be a return to the Thailand/Cambodia area that I worked in and so enjoyed. From Cambodia, Jon will head back to Singapore and the rest of us will fly back to Bangkok then back to Houston on December 8--making it a circumnavigation flight leaving east from Houston and arriving back from the west.
We'll be flying into the capitol, Yangon on November 24, spending a day in the modern capital then will fly north to the old historical capital at Mandalay to visit some temples there. After a day in Mandalay, we'll fly to the the massive World Heritage Site at Bagan.
Of what was once a religious complex of over 5,000 temples--some over a thousand years old--some 2,000 still remain today and we'll spend a couple of days sightseeing at Bagan. On the third day we'll be running the Bagan Temple Marathon on November 28. Alida, Jon and I will be doing the half and Devin, of course, the full. The course runs through the temple complex and several small villages.
It's not my first time to visit Southeast Asia--I worked several times in Thailand, one of my favorite destination places in the world--but this will be the first where I won't have to get up in the mornings and go to work.
...and it will be the first where I have my family with me. Devin, Alida, and I will be flying Houston to Moscow to Singapore to Myanmar--28 hours. At Singapore, we'll meet up with Jon who is a member of our Houston Dynamo supporter group and the four of us will do the trip together.
We'll be joining a running group that we've traveled to Iceland, Turkey and Costa Rica with before so we may know some others. The Bagan Temple Marathon promises to be a fantastic experience:
The day after the marathon, we'll be flying to Inle Lake which features a quaint fishing village entirely built on stilts. We'll spend three days exploring there then will separate from the group and the four of us will fly to Bangkok--arriving in the evening. Alida has us booked in a centrally-located hotel and the next day we plan to see the Reclining Buddha, the Royal Palace and maybe do a water taxi on the Chao Prya River. Almost 24 hours after arriving, we'll fly to Cambodia.
At Siem Reap, we'll visit the World Heritage Site at Angkor Wat. I visited there about a decade ago and know it to be a fantastic place. We'll have three days there and, in the middle, they are having a half marathon! We're all signed up and since I'm in this for the medals and they offer one for the 10K, I'm going to slack off and do the 6.2 mile race. This should be really interesting since it is also run within the Temple complex.
For me, this will be a return to the Thailand/Cambodia area that I worked in and so enjoyed. From Cambodia, Jon will head back to Singapore and the rest of us will fly back to Bangkok then back to Houston on December 8--making it a circumnavigation flight leaving east from Houston and arriving back from the west.
Angkor Wat:
