I got lucky and the hotel I am staying in is really nice. $15 per night including breakfast and veeerrryyy low internet. I walked around town this morning and I think I can name the buildings in the pics but some may be wrong. Everything here is so cheap. Accommodation is overpriced for what you get but everything else is cheap. Lunch yesterday was chicken curry and rice and 1ltr water for $1.30. Dinner was something and rice and bottle of soda at $1.40. The mark...

It has been an epic trip to get here. I could have done it easier on a bus but I wanted the train. Yangon to Shwenyaung for Nyaungshwe and the Inle lake. I tried to book the tickets in Yangon a few days ago and they said I could only book them 3 days in advance. (this is at the ticket office at the train station) I came back a few days later to book for tomorrow and they said come back tomorrow. Eventually I booked 5hr before the train was to leave. I could only ...

Im back in Yangon again and I did a walk around today and I can put some names to the buildings. I did a couple of loops, one round the old colonial section and one through china town and little india. China town smells like poo, little india smells like curried poo. I really love the old colonial architecture here. I gotta catch a train to Thazi this arvo then try to get to Inle Lake. I will go as far as I can on the train. Apparently the train from Thazi to Ka...

In case I didn't cover this before, in Burma/Myanmar if there is H in front you done say it so this is Pa-an and they say paa-arn. Hsipaw is seepaw. I got a taxi to the bus station, which is really a collection of puddles with some poo between to step on. I was a bit of a spectacle, being the only white person there and I don't think they see too many. Lucky I bought my ticket yesterday in town cos otherwise I would be at the mercy of the touts, there is no sign ...

I stayed in the hotel this morning and did some heavy research on Burma. Looking for somewhere to stay tonight was proving a little hard. I had a couple of choices that were close together so I didn't spend a fortune on taxi looking all around. It started to rain just before the plane took off so I was glad to be leaving just in time. When I arrived in Yangon it is pissin down and hasn't stopped since I got here. I took my chances in monsoon season. When we lande...