The room was so stuffy when we woke up to the aroma of unwashed clothes and stale beer that normally follows unhygienic men. I escaped as soon as possible downstairs to make a cup of coffee and breathe some fresh air.... Well more humid then anything but fresh all the same. You forget how humid it is in Bangkok compared to the dry, intense heat of Burma. Just sitting out of air conditioning for five minutes made me feel the sweat forming on my brow. I was more ...

So it was our last morning in Burma, it would be sad to leave but we both knew expense prevented us from staying longer. We met up with Kratos outside and enjoyed breakfast in the already quite stifling heat. Zdenek eventually joined us being fashionably late as always. Before our departure from Mandalay airport we wanted to stop off at the U Bein Bridge, one of Mandalay's premier tourist attractions. The bridge is officially the world's longest teak wood bridge ...

So today was our last full day in Burma and we hoping to do a little sightseeing today. We headed down relatively early to get the included breakfast. It consisted of yum-yums, jam sandwiches and bananas accompanied with lovely sweet coffee. Everything is so sweet in Burma, the one thing that needed to sweet, the yum-yums weren't. After eating breakfast me met up with our new companions Kratos and Zdenek with all intentions to go and explore the town. I put my l...

Laura woke me up with a start as we had arrived at the bus station in Mandalay. I looked at the clock and it was 4am, how the hell had we arrived so early when we had left so late. Also at around 1am the bus stopped and we noticed some smoke coming from the back. I would of been more concerned had we not been so tired and I guess the motionless bus made me fall asleep, anyhow I guess the bus got fixed! We stumbled off the bus and there was another rugby scum o...

We woke to the sound of construction work going on outside and a single, hazy beaming light coming through the curtains. Our overnight to Mandalay was booked for 7pm so we had the whole day to our leisure. I ordered us fried eggs for breakfast whilst stocking up on toast and juicy watermelon slices. Laura joined me just as our eggs arrived which were cooked well with the bright yellow yolk really runny. Then women were hard at work outside in there large brimmed ...