Well I’ve left Laos for the rest of my travels. Roxy made me a lovely take-away breakfast with a fresh baguette, avocado and a chocolate croissant. I made friends with the French man sitting next to me on the bus, he was a chain smoker but had been to Myanmar before so I decided he was worth talking to.

I got the VIP treatment at the Udon Thani airport for some reason – me and a girl from San Francisco. We were the only 2 in customs and were escorted to the plane and greeted in Bangkok by Air Asia staff who took us the quick way through to the transit lounge. I had plenty of time to wait so for a budget airline – I reckon that’s pretty good service. Was a bit weird but I wasn’t complaining – I definitely didn’t pay for that.

I caught an overnight train last night from Yangon to Bagan. They are always an adventure…….a 21 hour bumpy adventure in fact. I saw some lovely scenery of farmlands and waved to a lot of people. The train was pretty rickety but we did stay in the upper class sleepers. At times it felt like I was riding a bucking bull in the rodeo – made squatting over the toilet a challenge 😀