Arrived in at Heho at 9.15 as scheduled, and met our pre-arranged pick-up to take us the hour journey to our hotel (Princess Garden Hotel just out of Nyaungshwe). Nyaungshwe is a little village near Inle lake where we would be basing ourselves over the next few days. After getting ourselves together, and putting our bags in my room, as James and Fiona's room wasn't available yet, we took ourselves into the village for a look round. Nyaungshwe is a bustling commun...

Set alarm for 5.00, in order to take our pre-arranged 5.30 taxi (which would be escorting us throughout the day) to our first pre-arranged stop to watch the sunrise and walk over U'bein"s bridge. The taxi ride took around 1/2 hour, so we arrived, just as the sun had risen at around 6.00am, so we slowly meandered across the bridge, whilst watching life go by and monks going to prayer. U'bein's bridge is ........ After crossing the bridge we had a look round the ...

Mandalay hill

Mandalay

Yangon