The trip to Bagan was on the ferry cos I wanted to try a different way of travel. It was a 6am start and the hotel was late starting breakfast so I missed out again. The ride to the ferry on a motor bike taxi with my pack on my back wasn't easy. The extra weight was a bit hard to handle. We managed alright. There are soo many ferries, some go up and some down river. My driver had a little problem finding the right one but eventually made it and we were a bit earl...

U Bein's bridge is the worlds longest teak bridge. (1300mttr) LP lists it as the No1 thing to do here "Join the dawn monk parade crossing the worlds longest teak bridge" I asked the girls at reception what time is best to get there and they said "leave here at 4.30". So this morning I downloaded some pics for you to look at and headed off at 4.30. It was only about 1/2km to the corner to get a motorbike taxi. The markets were starting to open, they were selling t...

Lets get it out of the way right now. I'm on the road to Mandalay. There you go I said it. Even though Rudyard Kipling wrote it he did not go to Mandalay. The only place in Burma that he went was Moulmein, down south near Hpa an where I was a couple of weeks ago. The taxi ride here was OK and he delivered me to the door. If I had taken the bus I would have had to pay more for a taxi from the bus station so it really was a good deal. The driver was delivering milk...

I came all this way to take the train over the Goktiek Viaduct and there has been a landslide and the train line is closed. I will wait here for a couple of days cos there is a chance they clear it and I can take a train that way and back again. Miss Lily organized a bus for me and a girl from Hong Kong to come down to Pyin Oo Lwin. It had already left Lashio so they had to ring the driver and get him to come and pick us up. It was an OK trip, just 4 hours and he...

this morning I decided I was going to check out the town. A couple were trying to decide to go trekking and asked me if I was trekking. I said "No I can afford the bus fare", jeez yesterday I paid $1.50 and it would take me 3 days to walk that far. It was ******* down as usual and I left to check out town and I think they did go trekking. Later in the day the rain went and the sun came out and it was really hot and steamy, glad I didn't go trekking. Down near the...