Breakfast of Toast, boiled egg and coffee (this was included in the price of the room) We have seen a total of 1 Japanese bloke in our hostel and 2 Japanese girls in the other hostel up the road (Where we ate food, called Seesar)
Have decided to jump on the "mini bus" that takes you most of the way up the mountain. We got to the area where we wait and waited and waited and waited. All the kids keep coming up to us and just shout HELLO and run and then come back and shout HELLO and then run and then, you get the idea :-) We handed out some pencils to some of the kids. Had to wait about 2 hours but had fun watching the babies and toddlers being passed around to what I guess were family members. If the baby\toddler started to cry or want to go back to whoever was holding them they got a pinch. Yep you read that correctly they got a pinch to give them a reason for crying ! I now know what my Mum was doing when I was little and got smacked for crying. I was being given something to cry about and it must come from being burmese :-)
We had to wait for 2 hours for the truck to fill up and off we went, Obviously filled up does not mean full it means CRAMMED ! the truck had about 4 blanks of wood made into bench seats where everyone tried sitting down with their bags, babies and rats ! The truck starts to move up and the hill just forces you to fall back. Everyone takes great delight in Mrs PF and I struggling to stay on the seat. I had my arms wrapped around the bench seat in front and was hanging on so I never fell into the poor young woman behind me. We had an old man chatting away to us both using his hands and we think we got the message you must be mad to go up the hill !
We got dropped off at a midway point after about 20 mins of driving up the hill. Nice to get out of truck and stretch. WHAT A VIEW ! but sod that I'm just looking up to the heavens and a vast steep hill to get up, did I mention it was steep well just to say it again IT'S STEEP. Out of breath rather sweaty we finally make it up the mountain. mountain or hill who knows.
We register with the government people at the top, you have to register a few times as you go around Burma with your name and passport and pay our $6 to enter. Still a bit more of trek to get there but in 5 minutes we are there.
Its incredible to see, a huge bolder with a pagoda on top just hanging there and it should be falling and held with nothing but, according to beliefs, A lock of Buddha's hair. It has been covered in 22 caret gold leaf and you can only touch or place gold on it if you are man ! I never managed to get to touch the rock though.
We stayed and just chilled getting engulfed by the clouds and they came up it was very tranquil just sitting.
Headed back down and I decided to walk down for a bit so that I could get a couple of photos if the waterfalls on way down
luckily we were picked up after a while and paid a guy some money to take us all the way back to the base camp.
That evening we went to the Seesar and discovered that a bottle of Rum at 1000k is cheaper then a large beer 1300k the night got better and better after that :-) and get this we even watch the English football ! Managed to watch Wolves get thrashed by Chelsea 5-0. We got some good luck from the owners and had a great night.
Baby news - Now in week 18 and the chosen one is really starting to show. Keep getting asked about names but we are not going to tell anyone our names at the moment.
Footie news - Loyality is not a word that Kevin Phillips knows about. I would be gutted to be a Saints fan and have someone that you been paying his wages say he never wanted to be there
Todays Fact - The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001
Let you know tomorrow how many I do. Elbow is still playing up though :-)
On this day - 1936
Publication of Margaret Mitchell's novel: Gone With The Wind.
Frankly my dear I dont give a damn :-)
Todays Joke - Kevin Phillips
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Nice to know you're back blogging, Palace. Burma - you lucky thing! And there's me looking at good deals for Bognor Regis.
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