Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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We were all up early at the monastery which had noises for morning prayer and were having breakfast around 6.30 of fruit and a type of pancake. After that we all packed up but were the last group to leave. The weather was much better without any rain and some sun as well. We went through some more villages and again stopped for a tea break and toilet stop and were the last group there. After that we all stopped later at a big tree for climbing so a few people like Max, Hannah and the French guy went up the tree. There were still muddy places but we made it to the lunch stop around 12.30 and the French group were already starting dinner but we didn't have to wait too long and again it was good food, one of the positives of Myanmar. I remember there being a tomato salad and some curry with rice, meanwhile the weather had decided that it was going to rain and poured it down while we were eating. After that it thankfully stopped in time for our boat ride and someone suggested Hannah, Cindy and I do the circus act on shoulders but it was still wet and maybe slippery so I said no its too dangerous. The small French trekking group of 3 people turned up then and were pretty drenched as they had walked further to somewhere else and then got a motorbike to the restaurant. We all got on 2 boats apart from Cindy who left us there to go back home. The boat was nice, but very loud and there were loads of other boats all over the lake. The sun was out and it was a nice thing to do so I put some music on which was better than listening to the boat engine and just enjoyed it since we were all sitting one after the other so it was hard to talk anyway.
We crossed the lake and moored up on a wooden pier and walked a bit into town to a hotel where some peoples bags were. Max and Hannah didn't have rooms so Marcus suggested their hostel and we all walked to our hostels to do our thing and arranged to meet up later for dinner. My hostel (Manu Thaw) wwas really a hotel where I was in probably the only dorm room available whcih was very crowded with luggage all over the floor. I got my things sorted and changed my shoes throwing my old trekking shoes out as they had had their day, then I borrowed a bike at the hotel (one of the perks of the place, they also had water to fill up your bottles). Took the bike south to a cave I saw on the map which was ok but nothing special and it got a bit scary as it was dark and my phone battery was running low and it was just me there, but the battery lasted and I got out ok so headed round to Marcus's hostel to see who was there and the others were all busy but I saw Marcus who said he had asked around and there was a pickup truck going to the lantern festival in Thonggui that night but he decided since we had arranged to do dinner that we should stick to that. I headed off again and looked up Iris's hostel called Song of travel which was a nice place run by backpackers, then I went round a few other places like temples before heading back to meet the others for dinner. We went out and looked at the BBQ place Marcus had seen but it didn't look great especially for vegetarians so we found another place which looked ok and fairly cheap and got a big table which was good as Hannah and Max turned up with an extra Brazilian guy and a German girl called Laura. The food was ok but they only had bottled beer and when the bill was a bit more than we expected. After we were looking for somewhere to drink but Hannah and the Brazilian left and later Lotte and Iris went back as well so it was just Marcus, Max, Laura and me and we got some cheap drinks from a shop and I tried to find a hill I'd seen earlier but couldn't find it in the dark so we sat by the canal and played Never have I ever for a bit. It got late and Max and Laura looked like they might like each other and we all went our separate ways to bed.
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