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...