So even though I'm not the biggest fan of Kathmandu, I'd decided to stick around longer than planned as I wanted to be in the capital for a big upcoming festival - Holi! What can I say? What an awesome festival! It is quite literally a riot of colour and water! And it seems tourists get particular attention. Holi is a Hindu religious festival to celebrate the coming of spring, which is symbolised by random strangers rubbing bright spring coloured dust in your...

After two and a half hours in immigration queues I finally entered Nepal! On the short, bumpy and very dusty taxi ride into the tourist area of Thamel, I quickly realised that Kathmandu is like a little slice of Delhi. It's a maze of tiny streets that were definitely not designed for two way traffic and herds of tourists. There is a constant tooting of horns, vendors trying to get you in their shops and taxi drivers or rickshaw drivers trying to get you into ...

I boarded the VIP bus back to Yangon, expecting the same amazing experience as the bus to Bagan, unfortunately the driver was under the impression that tourists couldn't handle the heat here (fair assumption) and had the A.C on full blast the full 16 hours. After pestering him a number of times I gave up and resigned myself to travelling in a fridge and was actually glad to arrive in the hot and sticky Aung Mingalar station. But no rest for the wicked as I hopp...

At Ngyshwe a village on the banks of Inle lake we said goodbye to our Jomaine, Pou Pou and one member of the group. However after sleeping side by side for the last few nights the rest of us had bonded and so decided to stick together a bit longer. Matt (AUS) Matilde (FR) and me in one room and the German girls in another. Inle lake is beautiful but huge at over 13 miles long and 7 miles wide, so we did the necessary hiring a boat for the day and went off expl...

Note: Well as I'm currently about 6 weeks behind on my blog- I'm going to summarise quite a bit- sorry! I was really lucky managing to get a place on one of the group treks as they were actually full, but they decided to squeeze me in and allow a group of 7, so we were 2 German girls, a Swiss Girl (travelling together) a Dutch guy, an Australian guy, a French girl and me. And leading the troops we had Jomaine our really sweet young Burmese guide and our savio...