Burma

Before the memories fade away from the cascading workload that follows, I suppose highlights of the 8-day Myanmmar trip is worth penning down.

Alyssa and I began our journey at Yangon savouring our first Burmese local eateries. I find the food dubious initially and rather afraid to try.

After which we visited the grant shwewadagon, which was pretty much the grandest whoch we lay foot on. A worthy note is that Yangon has been developing rather quickly. While many visitors reviews complained about the lack of Atm and slow or non exisitent internet, it was far fROM the truth. Atm sprouted all throughout the city and internet was reasonably accessable. I took a lazy afternoon nap at one of the halls, not something one does in the awe of Buddha, I know. And we proceed to indulge in narccisim once more.

We have also visited the reclining Buddha, you will be familiar with if you have ever visited Thailand or Penang. I suppose the Burmese as staunch as they may be, takes these trips to the temples as part of dating excursions too.

For the second day, we flew off to Bagan to be greeted at our comfy resort. The stupas are the highlights, not to mention the horse cart riding which ferries us to most of our attractions. 

At first sight you may be wondering why men goes spitting intermittently and how they may be vampy looking with their bloody red gums. Soon we found out about the country obssession with betal leaves. 

So Bagan was where I am tested again on my phobia of heights. 

The stunning sunset and short walk was my personal favourite. 

Other than that Bagan has nothing much to offer, so we hid in our comfortable resort room, the cool enclave to the sweltering heat. 

Following which we did an overnight bus to Nyuang Shwe, which unfortunately was pretty much of an adventure. We alighted t the wrong plaCE in the middle of the night, and possibly had to take a two hour ride to our destination. Luckily a tour bus passes by and we hopped on. We finally got to swap to a tour bus which goE's to our destination during our pit stop and the driver did not even intend to make us pay.

Speaking of which, I find myanmmar People generally kind, honest and down to earth. My Nike shoes had not once been stolen as they were left outside the pagodas we visited. (Probably also because most of them were not brand conscious and finDS no need in theft)

All the taxis ride taken brings UA directly to our destination, we never once felt insecure with handling cash. So I would say it is pretty scam free as opposed to other south east Asian countries.

We continued with our trip in Inle Lake, following an aborted hike because of the heat, my upset stomach and Alyssa menses.

Inle was a boat cruISE hopping on and off din between visiting markets, some factories and pagodas.

We had a hard time trying to spend away our kyats. Because, there is simply nothing to buy except food.

Finally, another long 10 hoilur overnight bus back to yangon where we indulGED in some fine dinning.

So to conclude, it was really an underwhelming trip. I suppose there is alot of potential after foreign companies infurtriate and bring along more developments. Scenery wise, so so. Food wise, pretty uninspring too. 

Perhaps one thing yo rave? We kindda underspent, with a large amount of USD left. This is the city yet to be consumed by consumerism, I say.