So we got the bus which left at 4pm and was due to take 16-20 hours according to lonely planet. As we left Yangon to surroundings started to become more and more sparse and we could see small wooden huts in the fields, men working with oxen and a layer of smoke that drifted from the fields. We were on the road that ended up in Mandalay and this was strange in itself. The entire journey until we turned off the road was straight, no bends for miles, as if the gover...

As we are on a really tight budget for our Asian trip we worked out we could only afford to be in Myanmar for 10 days - and as you can only fly in and out we had to make a decision that 10 days would have to do :-( The accommodation is much more expensive than other neighbouring countries and you have to pay for many government entrance fees. So we planned a whistlestop tour from Yangon to Inle Lake, then to Bagan and finish off in Mandalay........ We didn't rea...

So we booked a taxi from our hotel to clark airport in angeles. They were filming something as there were actresses dress as flight attendents. We checked into our air asia flight and passed through security. Our flight was first to kuala lumpar where we waited for our connection to bangkok. We were both sad to leave philippines as its been so good to us. Our flight left slightly late and we arrived in kuala lumpar where we had visions of yummy food that we c...

We said goodbye to Jessica and got our return flight from Puerto Princesca to Manila and went to the Mall of Asia with Claire and Dee as we only had a few hours left with them. We took advantage of the 99 peso lunch time deal at Pizza Hut and then cried as they sailed off in their taxi to the airport :-( Me and Kam were back on our own again and both felt a bit sad but we made our way to the victory liner terminal in Pasay to catch a bus to Baguio which is a city...

The journey to El Nido was a lot better than to Sabang. It took about 5 hours and we had to change once at the main junction. When we arrived we had to look for a room again, it took a while - Kam and Claire found the best one, another family room for the 5 of us it was very near the beach. We dumped our bags and then went to look at the beach, it was quite polluted and it was very overcast so we didn't get a good first impression of it! We ate in a bar called Se...