Mandalay

Yangon

Having arrived in on schedule at 10.05 and gone through immigration, I was met by a representative of the Ocean Pearl Inn who took two other people (a British guy by the name of Dave, aged 29 who worked for parliament and was taking time off to travel round Asia, and a Burmese gentleman who now lives in New York). The journey took around 40 minutes to reach the hotel. Fiona and James were not due to arrive at the hotel till around 3.00pm, so I decided to do a re...