Grand Burma Cruise: MV Pandaw IV Deck Plan

THE RV PANDAW IV SPECIFICATIONS:
Decks: 2        Max Capacity: 56 passengers         Crew: 28         Length: 180 feet        Width: 34 feet         Speed: 18 km/h
The RV Pandaw IV has 18 twin cabins on the upper deck and 10 twin cabins on the main deck. The cabins have an individual air conditioning unit, shower and wc, mini safes, robes, slippers. Bottled water is provided daily. The Pandaw IV chiefs offer a great choice of local cuisine and exotic foods. Breakfast and lunch are buffets and dinner is served at the tables. Passengers may choose European alternatives. Vegetarians dishes are offered. Finished in brass and teak, the main and upper deck Pandaw IV staterooms are very spacious at 168 square feet. Pandaw passengers usually want to escape from the tiresome features found in international business hotels so our cabins do not have mini-bars, satellite TV's, internet or phones. There is a 24 hour honesty bar on the sundeck.

BURMESE CLIMATE:
Burma has a tropical monsoon type of climate with a marked difference between a cooler, dry season from November to April and a hotter, wet season from May until September or October. The dry season is distinctly more pleasant. At this time, when the country is dominated by the dry northeast monsoon, sunshine amounts are high, averaging from seven to ten hours a day.During the rainy season the weather is much more cloudy and from June to September daily sunshine amounts average only three to four hours a day.

THE IRRAWADDY RIVER:
The Irrawaddy River bisects the country from north to south and empties through a nine armed delta into the Indian Ocean. It is Myanmar's largest river (about 1350 miles long) and its most important commercial waterway; in colonial times, before railways and automobiles, the river was known as the "Road to Mandalay". For many years, the only bridge built to cross the Ayeyarwady River was the Inwa Bridge.
The names Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) are believed to have derived either from the Sanskrit name Iravati, a sacred river and minor goddess in Indian mythology, or from her son Airavata, the elephant mount of Indra.

Come you back to Mandalay, where the old Flotilla lay:
Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay
(Rudyard Kipling)

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