Out from the abyss it is 6:25 am here in Myanmar. Now in Mandalay. This is quite in amazing country. I keep thinking I am going to wake up with Bos Mo knocking at my door. I arrived in Mandalay from Lake Inle with is the really, I believe, the lost city of Atlantis. The whole place... city, not village, sits on a lake. There are over 200 monastaries. My room was in island in itself... I walked across a bridge to get there. It had water on all four sides and below (I woke up having to pee every 15 minutes.. which I am sure went right down into the lake... nothing like ecotourism) Every morning (2) I woke up to students paddling across the lake in their green uniforms and men fishing by
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