Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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Breakfast was pretty good at the hostel and I was chatting to a couple the guy called James was from London the girl called Colleen was from France. I went to get some flip flops to make it easier to visit temples and then we headed out together with me mostly leading from the map and we visited a couple of local temples and then walked back near the hostel and I said maybe James would want some sun cream as he's a bit pale but he thought he was ok so we went to People's park which had a funfair. After we saw an old airplane and then went round to an area where they were charging entry of 300 kyats to the park. I refused to pay and walked around to the next entrance while James and Colleen looked for money as they didn't take dollars which is what they had having just flown in. Got to the next gate and they were charging as well and the couple caught me up as they couldn't pay the entrance fee. I decided to lend them the money until they got change and we went through the park which had some nice features and we found some people doing tug of war. We tried to join as a team of 3 but couldn't so we carried on and saw a pagoda which had scaffolding on. Then we looked at the national museum which Colleen decided was not worth the entry and we separated soon after as they wanted to go downtown and I had already been and was planning on going to the Shwedagon Paya. There was a mixup where I miscalculated how much I had lent them in dollars but James gave me their Myanmar money which was 200 less instead which meant they had no Kyats at all so couldn't buy anything from a street seller for example.
My next destination was a military history museum and I walked in the door and was told to use the other entrance. I argued for a bit then tried other entrances but ended up walking round the whole block and back in the first entrance where this time the security explained that the museum had shut and moved to Mandalay which would have helped if they explained at first. I carried on walking to a pagoda, City market shop and the Football stadium before getting to the Bus ticket place and checked out some prices. By now it had been a few hours and the sun was pretty strong so I felt like I was going to get sunburnt so I decided to go on the train loop which I'd heard about to get in some shade. So I bought my ticket at the station for just 200 Kyats and started chatting to a guy called Jeremy who was English but worked at Brisbane university. The train arrived a bit late and Jeremy started talking to a girl called Lily who was moving back to California having taught English in China. We sat together and had some interesting conversations on the 3 hour journey which was good as it would have been pretty boring otherwise. The three of us went to a place nearby for some food and beer but I had to leave soon after to make a Skype call home so went back to the hostel. Afterwards I joined some people outside for drinks including Damien from New Zealand, 2 Dutch girls and a German. Turned out the Dutch and Damien had been at the bus ticket place and seen me there.
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