Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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I got up before 8 and again it was a good breakfast, but not really anyone to talk to, I decided to start with the most important thing of the day so I walked to get bus ticket and chose a different route past the Martyrs monument, which looked shut but I saw someone inside so I went round and found the other entrance was open and the charge was just 200 MKK to locals but 3,000 to foreigners like myself, I didn't even know what it was about so I walked on and went to the Temple from 2 days ago when I had shorts on and it was quite nice. I'd seen a place on maps/me which was an information centre so I took a different road to get there but it didn't look like the place existed at all. Got to the bus place and went to a couple of desks and booked the same bus as Damien to Bagan, since going to Muarak Au was a 24 hour journey. when I left the train station with Jeremy and Lily I had seen quite a large cathedral so I crossed the same bridge we had done and could see the cathedral again so I headed across to it and had a look round, after I went to an Islamic cemetary and a man there wouldn't let me walk somewhere for some reason so I went a slightly different route and still saw most of the place, I found a few other places as well from the map like a church of st Anthony (also Catholic) before going to the large park and wandering round to the part I didn't make last time where I had to pay entry fee and get another sticker. There was an impressive building which was also a very large picture on a paper map I had but when I got there it was just a closed floating restaurant, only open for dinner buffet. I headed back to the main attraction but was a bit tired so I stopped in a Temple to rest and someone else had the same idea as he was lying down snoring on a bench. after that I felt up for the big deal and went and paid to get into the Shwedagon Paya, all 8,000 kyats but it was impressive and I used the free wifi there to check in on facebook, before wandering around it a few times and finally deciding to head back. The one thing I did notice was that my corner based on when I was born was Wednesday morning and it had 2 corners, more than any other, so not only did I only have to share it with one 14th of the population but I also had 2 corners to worship at. I went back to hostel and had to rest to recover from heat slowly and then ordered dinner thinking we had ages to get the bus but the girl on reception said we should leave now as it take 90 minutes to get there so I rushed and then the 2 dutch girls, Damien and me all left together in a taxi we flagged down.
the journey was not long however and we arrived bus station before 8.30, with the bus due to leave at 9.30 so we sat there a while and they had some football on the screen including Real Madrid, a Lazio game and Everton playing West Ham but they kept flicking between the games. When the bus came I sat down in seat written on my ticket next to someone but after they told me I should be sitting one row behind but I didn't see much point in moving and the guy next to me had been quite friendly so I stayed, but then the guy next to me snored a bit and also spread himself out so it wasn't so comfortable, later when I tried to sleep there were bells ringing on the bus and it was really cold as the a/c was on full blast and I remember trying to watch a film on the individual screen on my seat (Ghost ship - for some reason they were heavy on horror in the selection) when the guy next to me from under his blanket took a phone call then after hanging up was almost immediately straight back to sleep and snoring. I had asked the girl conductor earlier if I could move seats and she had said no, but there were a few seats free near the back so I just climbed over the guy and moved there and later on the girl even made space for me by moving some other things so she wasn't too upset and finally I got some sleep before waking up early and finishing the ghost ship film, then a bit more sleep before people just got too loud I couldn't sleep anymore.
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