Yangon

We had a pretty ordinary flight to Singapore, (cold feet, tired but couldn't sleep, 4am breakfast), but the flight from there to Yangon was better, in the daylight.
A taxi driver, Lin, snaffled us at the airport, at exorbitant cost, but it was worth it because he showed us how to get money out of the ATM, took us to a shopping centre where we bought grog and a SIM, and gave us our first look at the pagodas and Buddhas that Myanmar is famous for.

For example, the big sitting Buddha
(Nga-htat-gyi Buddha Temple)

The reclining Buddha (Chauk-htat-gyi Buddha Temple)

At the tooth relic pagoda (Swe Taw Myat Pagoda)





At the midstream Kyauktan pagoda, out of Yangon

Following that, we had an interesting bus ride for eleven hours to Bagan, which I managed without embarrassment despite an explosive case of Yangon belly. I was saved by Elna's suitcase, which is a small chemist shop,


Elna by the Irrawaddy, Bagan

So, this morning we are off on the luxury tourist section of the trip, up the Irrawaddy by boat to Mandalay.