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Yangoon – last night

Arrived to Yangoon this morning. It was raining since 36 hrs. Full moon and this means end of rain season. WTH. But the rain stopped in the afternoon and we went to buy some stuff we might need. Keep your fingers crossed that we are able to cross the border easily tomorrow.

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Beside this, we found a small food booth which serves excellent Vietnamese coffee ;)

Yangoon – lazy day

Nothing to do so far. We got our flight tickets for the 7th Nov and went for shopping to the Boyoke market. New flip flops and a longhi (traditional burmese skirt) for Mandy. Booked our bus tickets to Nyaungshwe as well as the hotel. And we had Mohinga , the traditional Burmese soup for breakfast. Very yummy :)

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A lot of shirts with the image of Aung San Su Kyi offered in the streets of Yangoon. this was never imaginable 8 years ago. But some of the food seems still the same. You love pork ? You will enjoy this :)

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For tonight we will go to see the Shwedagon pagoda again.

Yangoon – about permits and trains

Most important topic yesterday – to find out if we need a permit to leave the country in the south @ Kawthuang. Went to MTT and the formal official answer is – NO which means we can save the 200 $. Great.
We bought a train ticket for the circle line which is a train around Yangoon. It was interesting to see the way this local train is used. People buy and sell goods, load and upload stuff and exchange news among each other.

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But besides the rail road we saw people living in a wasted environment and we recognized once again that our problems are only first world luxury problems.

Our anniversary night

We arrived to Yangoon in the afternoon. Our taxi driver had some problems to find the guesthouse but at the end he made it. Nice guesthouse , friendly people and a cozy atmosphere.

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We decided to go out for dinner and choose the real burmese food which is 5 mins by car away. The food was awesome. We ordered 2 appetizers, 2 vegetable dishes and 2 main courses. Plus 2 Myanmar beer. We paid 36 $ for all what you see at the table

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It was a fantastic dinner , even we never thought 15 years ago that we will be here in Yangoon tonight.