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So we woke up to pumping techno amd rock beats at 09:00 – something was afoot.!!

I have noticed that the waterfedtival is on in Thailand and that ofcourse it!! Thats a major celebration in Myanmar to, lasting for 4 days.

I have never taken part in this water festival, but its big – like christmas back home. All cullumenating in the Burmese newyear. (in Thailand this is know as the sangkran – same same)

We hit the streets pretty quick after waking up, I am now without any clean clothes at all – and the hotell charges 10$ a sock for laundry.

But we soon figured out, this being a public holliday, most shops are closed and laundrys where impossible to find. – no worries.

Anyways, in Yangon the water festival is pretty much a big party. And locals drive around in pickups and stop at differet waterposts where they are hsoed down, usually to some live music – it seems. The pictures I got where yous outside our hotel, we just had a small storll to se if there was anyone up for laundry 🙂

We found som excelent breakfast! Chicken byriani. And looking on all the stalls beeing set up – we will probably taste a lot more local snaks the next days.

40c’ here today – blazing.. so staying in the nice cool pool until the sun grows a bit tired.

We just arrived in Myanmar by flight from Hanoi,. I have to say it was a pretty nice arrival and airport in general, no papers to fill out – just show visa paper and passort. Done

We got some local mkk’s – 300.000 for me, thats about 1600 NOk. (Might be MMK’s ??) 🙂

In the arrival hall we saw a familiar logo, Telenor boasting fastes 4G in the country. Again, went real smooth – just handed over the phone and they sat up everything, activated and so on.

I went for the 16.5 GB for 30 days, 20.000 MMK’s – dirt cheap.. looks like aprox 25mbps speed on average.

This is ofcourse for my ols trusted samsung phine, that shares wifi and keeps our ‘Trond&MarenPaTur’ ssid up n runnin.

20.000 MMK’s more – for the taxi dude. Pool n food in aprox 20 min !

Today we decided to go look at the Hanoi Hilton – or Hoa Lo as it is named locally. – meaning something like Hot furnace.

.. or Maison Centrale, what the fremch called Continue reading “Hanoi Hilton”

This is just desserts. The two small white ‘eggs’ there – super sticky. fried rice with banana.. That white springroll lookalike – coconut stuffing. So nice

Main course buffet, fresh springrolls, pork bbq, some sticky-stiky near translucent dumplings with pork n shrimp

Jerky.. have not tested it.. yet. But its everywhere,.

Pho ! 😀

Veg-springrolls

The green stuff there is ‘morning glory’ – they are crazy about it. Kinda like spring onion meets aspargus.

This is a somewhat shabby park, it could do with some cleaning and general freshening up. But most of all a somewhat important point of interest relating to the history of Hanoi and Vietnam.

This is a war memorial from ’47, just after the second Continue reading “Hang Dau Garden, Hanoi”

Its a bit hard to know the prices, I usually go a bit under half of asking and just see how it goes.

Lots of cats ! 🙂