Later today, we fly to Yangon (Rangoon). On our Burmese tour, we'll follow essentially the route we took last year: the Golden Rock shrine (an enormous boulder balanced on a single hair of the Buddha), two monasteries, Malamyine (Moulmein); then Bagan, Mandalay and Inle Lake. We'll have roughly the same mix of guided private tours and time to range around on our own. We'll have the same guides as before; both are people we became fond of. One is now a high-school teacher, and he agreed to come back and serve as our guide for three days. We're doing it this way partly because we want to see who and what has changed.
Our plan is for me to return to Bangkok March 25 to work more on the Strachey book, and for Joe to remain in Myanmar for up to a week longer to do some hill-tribe-area trekking. When we tried to book my MAI (Myanmar Airways International) return to Bangkok, the travel agent said I'd have to do the booking in Myanmar in a week or so for the March 25 flight. MAI doesn't plan that far ahead.
We have received conflicting information on internet in Myanmar. So we might or might not be able to blog from there. If we do it, it will be discreet, maybe to the point of pointlessness. You'll know.
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