we are back once more from Burma/Myanmar with fresh visas, valid for 14 more days.
This morning we also applied for visas at the Indian Consulate.
Sadly they will only give us 3 month visas now. Collecting on the 19th.
Full sentences and more later. Running out of internet time.
x
========= ========= =========
[you can click on any photo here and it should open a larger view for you]
setting off in the morning, catching the 8.30am bus to Mae Sai, the border town to Burma.
While standing waiting for the bus, look at the scaffolding...
on the way to Northern Thailand, to the border with Myanmar/Burma, view from the bus window, behind those hills is Burma..
Jason at the Myanmar border.
the temporary entry permit we were given in exchange for leaving our passports with the border guards.. Passports to be collected on the way out of Myanmar/Burma.. always a funny feeling..
having a coffee in a coffee shop in Burma, serving Thai coffee. Jason looking a little french/bohemian..
in Burma, a pretty poor country, which becomes apparent as soon as you step across the border. Everything changes, sewers are open, people dressed often in what clearly is from a limited selection of clothes, material often shabby and worn. But we found a fair few friendly, if weary of life, faces.
You can tell by the state of the dogs how well a country is, in Burma as in Cambodia the dogs are pretty rough, often patches of fur missing... People's main priority is to feed themselves first before sharing with the four legged friend.
a wall we traced an old drawing on:
the shared bus back to Mae Sai Bus station where we caught the bus for the 5 hour journey to Chiang Mai.. 5 hours on winding roads through jungle, serious jungle, and more open areas with views of paddy fields and more urban places... (no pictures of the journey as most of it was in the dark)
===========
Back in Chiang Mai (the previous day)
we went and bought a little present / souvenir here:
the woman makes everything herself and really well.
No comments:
Post a Comment