An overnight bus ride North of Yangon is Nyaung Shwe, Inle Lake area. Generally the next stop on any tourist's list and well recorded by the Burmese military. They try, or at least request your passport everywhere you go- for bus tickets, guest houses, check points... Anyway, at Inle I found a bicycle, a farm run by a small family w/ two beautiful twin girls, a hilltop temple, a canoe, lots of tomatoes, and "Larry". Larry speaks great (sometimes hilarious) english. He takes tourists on hikes he himself doesn't like. And he longs for the peaks around the city of Kalaw, a small town further nw of Nyaung shwe. Business is business, but he seemed to much prefer living simply in the hill country. He was more than happy to speak of all these things with
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