Another 8:30 start as we left Kalaw to head towards inle lake. On the way we stopped off at Shwe Oo Min natural cave pagoda. The pagoda is situated inside a cave on a cliff face in the Myanmar hills and requires walking plenty of steps before getting a quite a decrepid elevator for the final bit. The cave contains over 8700 Buddha images of all difference shapes and sizes. Upon entering the temple complex I was stopped for the compulsory family photo with a Burme...

We left Mandalay around 8ish by bus to Kalaw an 8 hour trip away. There was several stops along the way with the first being U Bein Bridge, just outside of Mandalay. The bridge spans 1300 yards across Taungthaman Lake and isn't really fit for vehicles but you can walk across it and watch the numerous fishing boats below throwing their nets out to catch fish for the nearby markets. The trip to Kalaw went through lots of rural Myanmar before taking the windy road...

We left Bagan on Xmas eve to catch a boat to take us up river to Mandalay. The journey to Mandalay was going to take a day and half to reach, so that meant that most of Xmas day was to be on the river. The day didn't start off well as Linda, our tour guide, had come off a moped the night before and had fallen on her face. It wasn't a good sight and she had also broken one of her front teeth, she had good teeth too, which is more than I can say about most of the ...

It was an early rise to get to Bagan, we left the hotel at 4:30 to catch our flight to Bagan with Yangon "you know your safe with us" airways. The plane was tiny and was propelled by propellors, which apart from when I did a sky dive that is the only time I've been in plane with propellors. They obviously recognised Xmas and had hung a bauble from each of windows for decorations. The flight was short and only took and hour and twenty minutes and we had to fly to ...

I didn't think I would come back to SE Asia so soon after my last trip to Cambodia and Vietnam in the spring time, but I saw sense. I only had a few hours sleep the night before, not through being excited, but because iTunes was doing my head in and it was syncing correctly with my iPod so I stayed up trying to sort it out. I had a moment of a a scattiness when I arrived at the airport and decided that I should get off at terminal 3 as I recall that was the cor...