Beautiful Koh Samet with Mum - well earned beach time!!

Quiet and laid back Kanchanaburi with Mum; Bridge over the River Kwai and Hellfire Pass. Unfortunately we didn't make it to Erawan National Park

Our two weeks in Myanmar are almost at an end, and I unfortunately have picked up some form of bug which forced us to postpone our boat trip on Inle Lake yesterday until today…something to tire us out before we get the bus back to Yangon - another 12 hour overnight delight. Myanmar so far has been good, although exhausting and slightly underwhelming in parts. I think we're both feeling the distances we've been covering over the last 6 weeks or so and its t...

Our stay at the HInthar guest house wasn't the best we've had, but it served a purpose. It's almost like they took one giant big room and stuck up a load of thin walls to make rooms - which was fine, except for the great big gap they'd left at the top…so when they turned the lights in the corridor on at 5am, it made things a bit brighter! Not to mention, some people don't have a concept of walking without stamping their feet down…we were awake quite early. Ne...

It was time to go to Myanmar, our first over ground border crossing! We had a vague idea of how long it would take us to get to our first stop Hpa-an, so we were up early and after a quick breakfast, headed off in the general direction of the town where we hoped to pick up a local songatheaw (taxi) that would take us to the border. Part 1 was completed relatively easy, following the map in the guide book, we aimed for roughly where it said the pick up p...