Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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I woke up fairly early and it was raining that morning, I went to get some money out but the only bank in town was shut so I went back to the hostel, showered and had breakfast. I tried to finish reading my book and finally managed so I could leave it at the hotel. Marcus and Nina came down for breakfast so I joined them at their table and the girl serving breakfast gave us all breakfast so I shared out the extra one I had got. After I managed to get cash out I needed for the Inle lake fee (12,500) finished packing with final decisions on what to take and joined the others at the hotel reception. We went to the Jungle king trekking office with all of our bags, Cindy joined us and we had our tour group of Marcus, Nina, Hannah, her friend Max from Radofzell , two people from France, me and Cindy as our guide. It took a while before we left but less than the other groups, and off we went in the rain. I was talking to Hannah as we left town behind and she had a lot of information on the country having lived there for 10 months which was interesting. The path started to get muddy and Max and Hannah decided to take their shoes off although the lack of grip helped Hannah slip and fall, so she soon had her shoes back on, Max meanwhile kept his shoes off the whole day. We continued walking along muddy and dry paths until lunch by which time it had stopped raining and where we were met with a decent meal of noodles and soup. Some of us played chinlon after and it was then that the other 2 tour groups of mostly French people turned up, one group was just 3 people and had paid more possibly for a slightly different trek. We carried on walking and went through lots of fields with different crops, Hannah also collected an avocado from a tree which she hoped would ripen during the trek but never did. We had some more light rain and certainly more muddy paths before stopping for tea and a toilet break. Again the other groups joined us at the tea stop before we left, we stopped each time for quite a long time and our walking was also slow with lots of stops for Cindy to describe plants and such so I took off my pack and sat on it like I learnt for the Torres del paine walk. Because of the slow place we only got to the village after sunset but there was no real sunset anyway as the hills were in the way. Some of us had showers which was from a large well like basin with a small buckets to pour water over yourself, and there was no wall so you couldn't properly undress but it was ok, not too cold, the toilet was pretty basic as well.
We settled down for dinner which was good and the afterwards Hannah tried to do a magic trick with a cup and string but couldn't remember so Cindy who Hannah may have originally taught went over it many times before Hannah and maybe some others knew how to do it. As Cindy was tired she went off to bed and we played president with a limited Russian/German deck of cards that meant not all could play. The beds were ok and we had a plan of 6am up and 6.30 breakfast so we had an early night. I did my pressups for the challenge and Marcus videod and did a joke count (which you can probably hear on the Facebook post soon). Nina did a few pressups as well and at some point Marcus and Nina had a bet that she had to do 22 times 22 pressups (484) in one 24 hour day with the winner getting dinner and drinks paid for. We played president card game afterwards (also known as the last place person in the game) before we all went to bed in one room on mattresses on the floor.
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