by Qaisra Shahraz | May 7, 2014 | Featured Posts, Tours, Writing Diaries
This evening- thanks to my wonderful hosts I had the pleasure and privilege of visiting two real villages. One ‘Dayt Roumi’ was a rather upmarket one, with a gorgeous lake in the middle, a café, even a hotel and houses of all sorts dotted around it. Another was a...
by Qaisra Shahraz | May 3, 2014 | Burma 2014, Miscellaneous, Writing Diaries
Writing Diaries is my current blog where you can follow how I am getting on with writing my latest novel, provisionally named The Henna Painter. I hope to be posting every so often- so you’ll be getting live updates on my progress and perhaps even a sneak peak here or...
by Web Admin | Feb 17, 2014 | Burma 2014, Miscellaneous, Tours
Day of sightseeing. Golden Monastries, Royal palaces, watch towers and the greatest of all treats on this visit. The Kuthoda ‘Book’ Pagoda. What a place! With 729 little white temples in acres of land- housing life sizes pages from the Buddhist Holy Book inscripted...
by Web Admin | Feb 17, 2014 | Burma 2014
Mandalay 3rd day. Fabulous end to the Irrawady literature festival, with more lively and enjoyable sessions, speeches, gala dinner, interactions, including the appearance of one of the sons of Burmese prince, come to attend a session about his grandfather, the former...
by Web Admin | Feb 17, 2014 | Burma 2014
We thought we’d share some of our images gathered here in Mandalay , Myanmar from Irrawaddy Literature Festival 2014. Comment, review, share and tweet (note: we love tweeting but the world of twitter can be very distracting) with all the usual social media...
