A visit to Myanmar is like traveling back in time. Some aspects of life here compare to that of 100 years ago in England. My memories of Myanmar include pagodas, monks, stray dogs and cats, dusty bumpy potholed roads, cyclists, packed pick-up trucks, beetle juice, more pagodas, sunsets, petrol fumes, walking past pigs and chickens to reach a squat toilet at the back of a restaurant, egg and fruit breakfasts, cute kids, oxen, breaking down, more pagodas, feeling like a celebrity, football, farming, seeing rivers used for bathing and washing clothes and as a toilet, manual workshops, more monks and even more pagodas. Also, the Burmese people are the sweetest people you are ever likely to meet. And now for a boring day by day account. After arriving in Yangon on Saturday 16th Dec, we soon
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