26th January Yesterday it was 32degrees, today it's 18, wet and feeling rather chilly. We're spending the day in the hotel room watching movies, sorting photos and updating the blog. Today we finally managed to withdraw our first lot of kyat since arriving two days ago. There are four cash machines in town. These were only introduced to Myanmar in 2012 and are frequently broken. Sure enough, here in Dawei, two are broken and they don't know when they will be ...

Our first land border crossing since Africa! We've not exactly been frugal with the cash and have flown our way around Asia! This border crossing isn't even in Lonely Planet, we only know about it from someone else who did it and she told us she had a nice van with a lovely driver who dropped them at their chosen hotel. It didn't quite work out like that for us. We caught a mini van from Kanchanaburi to Phunamron at the border. Us two, seventeen locals and all ...