So we headed back to Yangon to catch our flight back to
Bangkok… And I can honestly say we couldn’t wait o get back there! (If you had told either of us this especially
Ems, that she would be looking forward to travelling BK, she would have told
you, you where insane!) But here we
were and we couldn’t wait to get back to the familiarity of Bangkok and clean
streets and food. So Myanmar… wow what an
incredible experience! No other country
had challenged us so much, the lack of hygiene, the spitting, parents making
their kids piss in the toilet queue, dirty streets, and houses, kitchens, the
smell of garbage and rot everywhere!
Then the people, super incredibly friendly & helpful (one man asked
as we got of the bus how can I help you in my country), and then equal measures
laziness and disinterest, the step back in time a we visited there villages and
homes, and listened to their stories. I
said at the start there was something different about Myanmar, and I think it
is the extreme isolation the country has been through, a country that is stuck
100 years in the past, with an air of a people that really want to change but
are held back by an oppressive regime that has suppressed education to the
masses for the last 20 years and therefore the countries progress. One of the most eye opening and thought
provoking countries we have had the great fortune and pleasure to visit.
So our last night in Bangkok, long 10 hour plus flight to
Sydney… probably should have a good dinner and early night, a drink to maybe
celebrate our time in Asia… or maybe instead our last meal from an Asian food
market, while listening to a live Asian rock band and putting our combined body
weight in whiskey and vodka away, while talking absolute shit into the early
hours of the morning before heading out to grab
authentic late night drunk food… McDonalds!!! Again another really fun,
unexpected night and a great way to end an incredible time in Asia.
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