Apparently Kipling never went to Mandalay but as my Dad said before we came it's one of the 3 exotic sounding places people had heard of. I've been to Kathmandu and now we are going to Mandalay, I think I'll give Timbuktu a miss. The taxi picks us up at 4.30am and it's not until we are ready for getting on the ferry from Bagan that we realise the travel agent has given us tickets for the previous day, thankfully they take the tickets from us without even looking at them. The ferry is large but there are only 20 of us on board so we have space to spread out both inside and out on deck. The boat swaps pilots at various points along the river, it's dry season and the river is at its
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