We get up without hurry, we look for a place to have breakfast but there are not many options, finally we stop in an old tea shop, the very interesting place, the tea with too much milk.
At the hostel we asked for bus tickets to go to Hpa an. There is no bus station in Taungoo but on the main street there are agencies where the buses stop. The receptionist is a charming person who doesn't speak English well but calls a man who explains to us what we have to do. We take a mototaxi and go to the main street where we buy the tickets for tonight. They are so nice that they don't charge us one of the motorbikes for being an employee of the hostel, these people are the pear.
We go back to the hostel and thank them.
Kandawgyi lake
It is unbearably hot but we still walk to the Kandawgyi lake.
We buy fruit from a street stall, hot but very tasty. We stop to browse in a mobile phone shop and the prices are similar to those in Spain.
Stree fruit stand
It is a wooded area with tables and benches overlooking the lake. It is quite crowded as it is lunchtime. We sit next to some kids who are singing and playing the guitar, they do it quite well. Some girls come to ask, they are beautiful to look at, one of them with a wool hat has been shaved recently.
Kandawgyi lake
We eat at a local restaurant in front of the main entrance, delicious Burmese food.
Then we walk towards Shwesandaw Paya and meet another travelling band begging, my mother who sings badly, we are told they have just returned from Mount Popa, another sacred pilgrimage site in Myanmar.
We stop at a cafeteria, they have air conditioning and give us life for a while.
On the way to Shwesandaw we see some kids playing chinlone, they play with a cane ball, you have to touch it with your body and pass a net without it falling on the ground. We take off our shoes and play with them, we are very bad but we have a few laughs with them.
Buddhas in Shwesandaw Paya
We arrived at Shwesandaw Paya, with its golden zedi it is the most important place of pilgrimage in the city. We rest in the shade while we admire the stupa.
We see some gardens nearby with some abandoned buildings that once had to be beautiful.
Gardens near Shwesandaw Paya
We take a trishaw to look for a super and buy towels. It is a bike with a kind of sidecar with a chair facing forward and another backward. It's a lot of fun.
We visit Myasigon Paya, it has a gold and glass stupa.
We wandered over to Stellar restaurant. A very modern and cozy place with a bar and a restaurant decorated with clothes and masks of the Second World War. Fresh beer and good food. They are very kind to give us watermelon as an aperitif with the beer.
A tremendous storm is falling, thank goodness we have time for it to blow over.
We go back to the hostel and there we are picked up by a trishaw and the three of us get on it with the big backpacks, deadly, what a laugh.
The bus arrives on time, at 10 pm we leave for Hpa an.
Breakfast: local tea shop 3.500 MMK 3 pax.
Lunch: restaurant in front of the lake 11.900 MMK 3 pax.
Bus tickets to Hpa an: 27.900 MMK 3 pax.
Motorbike taxi to the agency: 2.000 MMK per bike
Ice cream and coffee: 5.3000 MMK
Trishaw 1.500 MMK all three.
Dinner: restaurant bar Stellar 11.800 MMK 3 pax.
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