The night bus was horrible to say the least it took about an hour and a half picking us up and I had bought some street food that was gross so we were starving after the massive hike from a couple of hours ago. When the bus eventually did arrive people were sat all in the aisles and for some reason all night EVERYONE was throwing up into tiny little carrier bags not pleasant for a 10 hours journey. When we arrived back at Yangon again very early all we wanted to ...

We flew from Bagan to heho which is about 45 min from inle lake. The plane we got on was tiny and consequently since then it is a 50:50 chance the plane we went on was the plane that crashed at Christmas as they only have two aircrafts. We had already arranged for our hostel to pick us up as we'd heard That they really rip people off to get to the lake. The hostel itself was really nice we even got a room upgrade to a room made out of bamboo because we had book...

We arrived at about 5.30am when we were supposed to get in at around 9/10 am. This bus station was also way out of town and the only way to get in was by horse and carriage that was actually more like a cart with some bedding on top. We met a Burmese girl from London on the coach who actually helped us talk to the men with the horses to get them down from their extortionate prices. And she also rang the hotel for us to see if we would be able to check in so early...

We arrived early in Yangon . Burma is definitely off the beaten track which was noticeable on the flight as there were only 8 other white people and they all had dreadlocks. The Air Asia flight wasn't bad but for some reason they had seated us separately?! I (Grainne) was sat next to a German couple and Dan had a spare seat next to him so I just moved. They seem to have a habit of doing this as on our flight back we were sat next to each other but you could tell ...