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Sunday, April 23, 2017

munich's museums

what to do on a rainy sunday in munich? well, it is always a good idea to visit one of the many munich's museums. the state owned museums provide a reduced entry fee for only 1 euro per person on sundays, so it is also not expensive, my dears :-)

bayerisches nationalmuseum (bavarian national museum):

however, i wanted to write this blog post last year as we visited the residenz museum with friends (that nice guided historical tour was a birthday gift for me) and the völkerkunde-museum with my wife + eldest daughter within few weeks. we also tried to visit the bavarian national museum with my wife, but it was a nice sunny day, so we just made many pictures from outside and continued to walk in the nearby english gardens at the river isar. today we finally managed to visit the national museum from inside, too :-)

residenz (residence of the bavarian kings) ~ pictures see below
völkerkundemuseum about nations around the world - the (only) nice parts were polynesia/micronesia and the special exhibition about myanmar, so we decided to visit myanmar this year ~ pictures see below
lange nacht der museen - at the long night of munich's museum we especially visited the beer museum and a guided historical tour through the old city center
nymphenburg castle accommodates especially paintings + the nearby educative men & nature (children) museum (mensch & natur), where we were really often with our daughters when they were small
MVG museum (public transportation) is the new home of the gold & silver show edelmetallmesse
BMW museum ~ more pictures coming soon?
bayerisches nationalmuseum (bavarian national museum), enjoy few pictures:

völkerkundemuseum (08/2016):

myanmar

polynesia / micronesia

north america

africa

residenz (08/2016)
sooooo nice and so interesting. we have had a historical guided tour with friends, i liked most the proverbs our guide explained us like (in german, of course):

auf der langen bank sitzen
tafelsilber
alles in butter
usw

more pictures here.

Monday, January 30, 2017

bagan - myanmar (burma)

our next stop after yangon? easy, it was the ancient temple city of bagan.

for us was old bagan very similar to cambodia's 1700 km far Angkor Wat because of the hot and dry climate, sands soil and also similar friendly + tolerant buddhist population. anyway, the monuments were completely different even as they were built almost in the same time (9th - 12th century a.d.)
the are 2,227 monuments right now, before the earthquake in 1975 there were 4,000+ budhist monuments (stupa vs. temple vs. pagoda)
our favorite monuments? here are few of them: manuha phaya, the biggest dhammayan gyi pagoda, the highest thatbyinnyu phaya, the hindu one, the 920 years old #1056 was probably our nicest climbing adventure, the indian style ananda temple, swezigon pagoda, the #1686 especially inside (close to the biggest temple), buphaya at the jetty and riverside restaurants, ... don't worry about these strange names, you will find for sure your own favorite temple where you spent your nice & valuable time.....
my dears, forget balloon, boat, horse, bicycle and taxi: the small chinese e-bikes are the way to explore this cultural UNESCO heritage. just don't forget the helmet for your own safety ;-). well, for the best of all wives and me it was better to take one e-bike for two as it made our communication easy and we could spontaneously decide where to stop and where to turn next.