Those of you who have been reading since the early days will remember when we visited Jasper in Canada we visited an abundance of lakes. So this here is the South East Asia version featuring more temples than we could possibly get round in 48 hours! A 4am alarm and we were up and at 'em, ready to be collected. We were joined by 2 young Mexican guys and headed to the airport at 5am for our flight to Bagan - an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site with 3822 temples and pagodas. Thankfully it was a nice, quick flight and we were in Bagan just over an hour later. After being greeted by our guide for the next couple days, George, we paid our 25,000kyat (£12.50) each to allow us to enter the archeological zone for the duration of our stay and headed off.
Our first stop was to Bagan Market in Nyang-U. Now we must say, neither of us are big fans of markets, not least because we're rubbish at haggling. As soon as the door of the minivan opened, we were accosted by women trying the sell us postcards, magnets, make-up, traditional Burmese sun screen the lot! We managed to escape relatively unscathed other than some strange paste being put onto Katy's face. The obligatory once over confirmed we still don't like markets. Once we had reaffirmed our epiphany (especially this one, as Craig was too tall and kept banging his head) we found ourselves a little tea room and waited for the rest of our group with a green tea - much more peaceful!
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