Mandalay, Myanmar
The fabled 'Road to Mandalay', it turns out, (from the 8km stretch that we took from the airport to our hotel) to be a rickety potholed affair that would have taken us a whole day to drive to from Rangoon. And it was only completed a few months ago, which apparently says more for the levels of corruption in this country than the workmanship; by the time all the government officials, their brothers and their cousins had taken a cut of the road building budget the...