Even though it took us several days of saying "ok we are leaving tomorrow," we finally left paradise. We arrived back in Bangkok this morning around 5 am and were greeted with plentiful flooded streets. Although the area we are staying in is not affected. Until this morning, we had to trek through shin deep water to gt some breakfast!
Running on 2 hours sleep we had a big day today, filed and received our visas for Myanmar and even fit in a movie at the cinema (three musketeers, horrible horrible movie don't waste your time). You should do some research about Myanmar. Although I am a bit concerned, not for our well being or anything, but the adjustment to the completely different culture. The travel itinerary we have at the moment is Yagon, to Bagan, and a 3 day trek through the jungle to Inle Lake. Also, I am pretty sure we will not have any access to internet at this time, so expect to hear back from us around the 15th or so of November!
What a cool experience. Can't wait to see the pics from Myanmar. The lake seems very cool, the jungle trek should be interesting. It is going to kill me not to hear from you for 15 days though. Someone laughed and said that will be like the 80's when we traveled in Europe. Our contact was postcards and letters home. That is, until we discovered the broken public phone on the corner near our home in Acton England. Our group was reported to have run up about $50,000 in phone calls to the States. All you had to do was plug in one or two pounds and cross your fingers that it wouldn't ask for more money so you could talk for about 20 minutes for what, back then, would have cost $3.00 per minute. Needless to say all the foreigners from the neighborhood knew about the phone too.
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