We took an overnight bus to a place called  Nyaungshwe which is the local town where you stay for a visit to Inle Lake.  We were expecting a cold journey as we knew about their love of air conditioning, so we came prepared.  We broke down half an hour -cont reading>

We set out on the road to Mandalay early in the morning and travelled for 8 hours with a couple of food stops.   We were offered tea, coffee and bats…  fried and wrapped in paper.  No thanks. -cont reading…>

We wanted to sail to Myanmar but it worked out to be seriously expensive, so we looked into flying there instead, so for $47 we decided it was a much better option.  In fact the visas to get there were more expensive @ $50!

Myanmar formerly Burma is still very unspoiled -cont reading…>