Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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I was up for breakfast and Dwan said she was going to Mingun on the ferry which leaves at 9am. It looked ok so I decided to go and got my stuff together and then walked to where the boat is and got there just in time, then they were really slow and disorganised so our boat left late. Was talking to some other girls Tina from travelzoo and her friend Sonia as well as Dwan and an older Italian lady who's husband was off working. We got to Mingun after a nice ferry ride and the ferry agreed to pick us up later than normal so we all went in a group of 4 and had to pay entrance fee to the area, only for foreigners of course. We went to the big temple they have there which was never completed due to earthquake damage back in the 70's. Turns out there was more damage from the August earthquake so now we could not climb on top. Then we went to the white pagoda which was pretty nice although not nice enough to visit again which was what the Italian lady said she was here for. We went to another place which had a big bell and looked at an old people's home before leaving. Back on boat the Italian lady said she had actually gone the other way to a village and not even paid the entry fee. When we got back Sonia and Tina were taking a taxi to Mandalay hill so I joined them there to split the cost. I walked up ok but it was a fairly long way while others can use the escalator or elevator up. there was also a fee at the top but it was all shiny gold so looked good and there were also lots of temples and pagodas on the way as well, some good others not so good. I wandered around at the top looking everywhere and also did some pressups for the challenge to make the video more interesting. I got lost going down but found a different route with some nice places which was lucky. At the bottom I went round some other temples and pagodas there and as they were all close together I just carried on walking and managed to get inside the old wooden monastery place I'd heard about which frankly wasn't that special but it was old. I walked on in the direction of the hostel to the Grand palace but it was shut as it was after 5pm so went back to the hostel and had some food and drinks chatting to a Canadian called Radhika and a Chilean doctor called Valentina. Had some interesting conversations as Radhika worked as a psychologist looking after sex cases. Not many people stayed up so chatted to Sam from Tel Aviv again.
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