So today was our last full day in Burma and we hoping to do a little sightseeing today. We headed down relatively early to get the included breakfast. It consisted of yum-yums, jam sandwiches and bananas accompanied with lovely sweet coffee. Everything is so sweet in Burma, the one thing that needed to sweet, the yum-yums weren't. After eating breakfast me met up with our new companions Kratos and Zdenek with all intentions to go and explore the town. I put my l...

Laura woke me up with a start as we had arrived at the bus station in Mandalay. I looked at the clock and it was 4am, how the hell had we arrived so early when we had left so late. Also at around 1am the bus stopped and we noticed some smoke coming from the back. I would of been more concerned had we not been so tired and I guess the motionless bus made me fall asleep, anyhow I guess the bus got fixed! We stumbled off the bus and there was another rugby scum o...

We woke to the sound of construction work going on outside and a single, hazy beaming light coming through the curtains. Our overnight to Mandalay was booked for 7pm so we had the whole day to our leisure. I ordered us fried eggs for breakfast whilst stocking up on toast and juicy watermelon slices. Laura joined me just as our eggs arrived which were cooked well with the bright yellow yolk really runny. Then women were hard at work outside in there large brimmed ...

We woke up in our huge room after an amazing night sleep on a very comfy bed. Amazing how you do miss these little comforts after a while. We had an early breakfast of omelet, scrambled eggs, toast and fruits. We both tucked in as we had a long day of sight seeing on the lake today. We were going to head out to Inle Lake today which is one of Burma's prime tourist destinations. As the government have shut off a large proportion of the country to tourism, people t...

Quite early in the morning we were woken by people chatting outside. I noted the time being 6:00am and I looked out the window and spotted the English girl from Hong Kong eating breakfast with three others. We both showered and I headed out to the large communal breakfast going on. Clarissa (the English girl) explained the gang sitting outside were due to get a taxi out to the temples for the sunrise but it never came. They were negotiating a jeep fare with the B...