Andrea Hearts Traveling

Bagan... the place that absolutely everybody visits when coming to Myanmar!

I arrived in Bagan at 5am from Yangon and half asleep got off the night bus. It was pitched dark and I knew I had to get a taxi to the hotel and I also knew it would be a struggle to get one at a fair price given it was 5am.

I grabbed my backpack and stopped to look at what was going on, people were already pulled aside by taxi drivers and deals were in the making. I went straight to a girl who was alone and already talking to a cab driver and asked to share, then I saw a couple from my bus and asked to joined us and work together on getting a taxi. The funny thing about the taxi struggle is that there was a banner that read TAXI 7,000kyats but guess what?!?! These cheeky drivers started telling us that it was 7,000 kyats per person... are you kidding me?!? For a 10km ride? It was crazy to pay $5.20 PER PERSON, a total of $21 for a less than 10 minute drive in Myanmar!!

Welcome to Yangon!!!!!!

(I'm singing it to the tune of "Welcome to New York" by Taylor Swift)

It's been five months since I started my trip and in a way I didn't really think much about what was going to happen after Sri Lanka since all my excitement focused on that one country.

Now SL is part of the past and although I loved it, the last couple of days there stressed me out and once I was dropped off at the airport I was glad to be leaving.

After SL I spent two days back in KL doing absolutely nothing (other than laundry and repairing my cracked iPhone screen) and then took a plane to Yangon, Myanmar (previously Burma.)

So... the visit to Anuradhapura started by me telling Jonathan that I had to pay $25 to enter Pollonaruwa and him saying that I was wrong and that pretty much only stupid people pay the fees. I said that before there were ways to avoid paying the fees but not anymore and since all the entrance fees were so high I had only picked to visit Pollonaruwa. He took this information as a challenge and told me he would show me that I didn’t have to pay.

Once we had explored Jaffna Jonathan took me on a road trip on his motorbike to the North of Sri Lanka!.

My journey to Jaffna started with an hour and a half wait for a “luxury” express bus to Colombo that supposedly ran every 20 minutes… Could it be possible that 5 busses were late right when I needed them? I have learned to be more patient in Sri Lanka as things just work in their own time over here.

Sunrise(s) in Bagan!

Welcome to Yangon!

Anuradhapura

The north of Sri Lanka

Jaffna

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