In Myanmar! Sacrebleu!

First of all, sorry for not posting as often as our last blog. Our sporadic posting has been due to the hectic schedule of Bangkok, and the lure of hammocks in Ko Chang. Also, Angel has had a cold the past few days, so she hasn't been very mobile (she first thought it was malaria, but now says it's luxury spa deprivation).

Anyway, on to current news: we are in the golden land of Myanmar! And, we are not political prisoners (yet)! We are currently staying at:

Teakwood Inn, room 303
Nyaungshwe, Myanmar

We kinda skipped the rest of our Bangkok highlights, because we thought the city sucked. So I'll finish the Bangkok stuff here.

We took a train to Ayuthaya, which was the old capital of Siam. It used to be one of the best cities in Asia before the Burmese sacked it. Unfortunately, the Burmese didn't leave much. After being to Cambodia, we couldn't help but think Ayuthaya was dull by comparison.

We then went to a Muay Thai fight in Bangkok. Muay Thai has the rep of being the most effective martial arts style, so I was very interested in watching. Angel was bored to tears though- I guess two men beating the crap out of each other isn't appealing to everybody. She went out to the Night Market to run an errand, where she met lots of Cantonese people. For those who don't know, Cantonese is a Chinese dialect that involves people screaming at each other.

Then we got the heck out of Bangkok and to Ko Chang. Not much more to say about Ko Chang, other than we spent lots of time reading, and we both got bad sunburns. Being the two whitest people at the beach can do that. All I can say is that we should never have kids, for the sake of the gene pool.

Angel will be blogging about Myanmar, so I'll turn it over to her.

- Mike