1. Off to Myanmar
1. Off to Myanmar After a long flight via Bangkok and a night largely lost due to a 6.5 hour time difference we were met by our guide Tun (call me Tom) and were driven into the ex capital city of Myanmar, Yangon. The capricious military government here has done some odd things such as suddenly changing which side of the road the country drives on when 99% of the cars have the steering wheel on the wrong side, the logic of the change being that the right side is lucky. Similarly the capital has been moved many times, most recently to Naypyidaw in 2005, apparently on the advice of an astrologer and changing the name of the country seems similarly random. Anyway the locals seem to ignore it and still refer to “ Burma” and “Rangoon” and so shall we in this, our 7th trip Blog. Rangoon The capital, well, at least the modern capital is very forgettable and with appalling traffic, despite the fact that motorbikes and bicycles are banned from the central area. We stayed at