Brief Burma!

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Hello Everyone from Burma/Myanmar!

Haha yes thats right we are not in Thailand well not for the next hour or 2 anyway, were in Tachileik in far north eastern Myanmar! We are on our way from Northern Thailand to the Laos border at Chang Kong so we thought it would be amusing to go to Mae Sai and cross the border to Burma for an afternoon! Yes we are sad but it has been quite amusing and a visa for Myanmar only costs 10 dollars.

We thought that it would be pretty much the same, as we are about 100 yds from our hotel in Thailand on the other side of the river! But to be honest its really different, its like a weird 50/50 mix of India and Thailand waaaaay more beggars and touts than in Thailand (lots of wandering guys selling cigarrettes, viagra and playing cards with saddam husseins face on them) and also poverty in general just seems worse. It has got an amusing character and we have stopped long enough for me to have a Myanmar Beer (very nice it was too) due to the the fact there dont appear to be any decent restaurants we are going to pop over to Thailand again for dinner.

Oh and weve bought a gong, god knows what we will use it for or where it will go!

Speak/annoy you all again soon,

Dean & Sarah

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