Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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I was awake early not surprisingly but didn't feel so great so had a lie in until close to 8 when I got up for breakfast. Sat at a table on my own but was soon joined by other people including a Spanish guy who'd been around Dawei and recommended 2 places which were $10 a night instead of the $26 I'd found so far on Agoda which made me want to get a night bus to Dawei. There was also an Aussie, a Canadian, a Dutch girl and finally a Kiwi called Craig. I was talking to Craig about things and we just carried on talking after breakfast for over an hour about world politics and the Mauri in his Country. After that we made plans to walk around but I had to pack my case away and shower etc so when I met him it was too hot outside so he just wanted to chill and so I headed out on my own and phoned one of the places in Dawei that the guy had stayed in but they didn't have any single rooms so it was $18 for a double and then I'd have to work out how to travel to Bangkok from there so I decided to skip some hassle and just head back to Thailand and better wifi. I picked up my suitcase and walked to the bus place and I was on the 12.30 bus so I had some time before and the guy who sold me the ticket helped me get a fish curry for 1,000 before putting my big suitcase in the truck and insisting that I didn't need to pay extra for it. I got to sit in the front for the short journey and then transitioned to the proper bus to Hpa an where I fell asleep for quite a bit of the journey.
Arrived near to the bus station but it was a few hundred metres away which was confusing but I walked that way deciding not to go to a supermarket for fruit as I wanted the bus sorted first. I got to the right area but the bookmark was in the middle of a block and then I realised that was the bookmark for the city and I'd missed bookmarking the bus station for some reason. I had a quick look at a temple nearby which wasn't worth it and then made my way back to the bus station and asked at the first place if the woman there had a bus to Mywaddy. She told me to wait while she phoned around and I looked at the poster she had and Mywaddy was not listed but she hung up and said yes for 8,000 there was the 3.30 bus which was good as I wouldn't have to wait long. Of course the bus was late so I sat for a while in the shelter while some guys chatted what seemed rubbish to me, spat a lot and didn't really seem to be doing anything in particular. Anyway the bus came and the woman asked me for my ticket as I made my way across the road to where the bus stopped in front of another ticket office. The woman spoke to the guy loading the bags so mine was put on and then to the driver and I asked for my ticket back and she said no ticket so I think she'd just done some dodgy deal and overcharged me for another companies bus especially when I saw the condition, but at least it was daytime so I could read until the sun set and then I had a couple of hours in the dark listening to music. We got to Myawaddy later than I expected, after 8pm and I didn't have any Thai Bhat so I was worried I'd get across and then not be able to get the taxi, but when I got to the border it was shut so I had dinner at a place showing the football. Myawaddy was a lot different from the last time I was here just because most of the shops and places were open this time and its actually quite a big place. My sim card had run out of credit which was annoying as I expected more but I think the one phone call I did used quite a bit. So I topped up my sim card so I could check for hotels in the area and none were nearby but I'd walked past one so I went back there and stayed at the Myawaddy hotel. It was $30 for the night so after all that messing around trying to avoid expensive places I'd been stung at the last place. I also noticed they had the same list of room prices written in Burmese but they paid 30,000 instead of 39,000 which is one of the things I didn't like about Myanmar was the constant extra charges for being a foreigner and its not like they really check its just if you look foreign. The room was ok and had a TV so I watched the next football match and went to sleep.
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