Pagoda, Pagoda, Pagoda - Bagan

The ruins were plentiful & very beautiful.. sadly the only down side was the weather... with temperatures at 42C in the shade getting around by the preferred course (bicycle) was pretty tiring, hard still were the bikes themselves, as I had 3 flat tires out of 4 bikes.

The pagodas were extremely beautiful and almost untouched by tourists, there were too many to pick a favourite but a favourite moment was messing around with local kids on the top of one of the more famous pagodas during sunset. One of the plus points of Bagan was interaction with local kids... they are always looking to practise their English and very keen to flog an array of postcards and paintings.

After 2 half-days of sightseeing Mark and I decided to chill-ax by our hotel swimming pool all day as we felt we had earnt our break, that evening we bumped into a local we had met at one of the pagodas the previous day and were invited to a local coffee house to watch some English football, it was certainly a good way to finish the Burmese trip....

For anyone that is thinking of visiting Burma I would say go for it as the beer is ridiculously cheap, we mananged to buy a beer for 25 US cents and the sights to see are top notch.

Coming up next is Laos, where we currently are, Emilia will be joint-blogging to ease the burden for me.. woo hoo!

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written by  Michael Russell on May 3, 2009 from Taungtha, Myanmar (Burma)
from the travel blog: Escape from Blighty
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