Yesterday we met a Spanish girl who is living in Australia and will be a month in Myanmar, we coincide with her again doing the check out. She agrees with us that in the hotel they are not as nice as in other areas.
We have breakfast at the hostel, it's buffet but we don't like it very much. Today we changed our room to a triple room, it's much cleaner and very spacious.
After breakfast at the hostel, we rent some motorcycles, we want to climb the Zwegabin mountain.
It is the highest limestone mountain in the area, about eleven kilometers from Hpa An. It is easy to get there, just take the road next to the river about ten kilometers until you take the detour, it stands out among the countryside.
We arrived at Hpa An at 6 in the morning. The journey took about 8 hours, and we stopped at the door of the Little Hpa An Boutique Hostel. We can't enter the room because it's busy and we're allowed to rest in the breakfast room, we curse until eight o'clock when people arrive for breakfast. The hostel is nice, our bathroom gets very wet. The breakfast is buffet. There are not many options for accommodation and our hostel is quite full.
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.
Last breakfast overlooking Bagan. We pay, they don't take dollars but they do take credit cards and kyats. We pick up the laundry, it's quite expensive almost three times more than at Inle Lake.
Nathlaung Kyaung in Bagan
We have breakfast again on the rooftop, we rent the motorcycles again in the hotel but they don't give us the same ones as yesterday, as soon as one of them goes out it lowers a line of battery, we return to the hotel and we ask them for another one. The problem with the electric motorcycles is that as they consume little and yesterday we returned them without lowering any line, we believe that they do not recharge.
Breakfast on the hotel rooftop, buffet breakfast, the incredible views. We rented two electric motorcycles at the hotel, they don't give us helmets they say it's not necessary, in short the Asian security. The bikes have a range of about forty kilometers, they work quite well.
We get up early and leave in search of a tuk tuk that will take us to Shwe In Bin Kyaung Monastery and then take us to the pier, we have to arrive before nine o'clock when the boat leaves for Mingun.
The monastery is beautiful, well worth a visit, built of teak on huge stilts. The monks are in the adjacent pavilions doing their homework.
We rent a tuk tuk at the hotel to visit the imperial cities, our driver is called Ningy. At 8.30, we are expected on time.
First stop Mahamuni Paya, a seated Buddha of almost two thousand years old covered with hundreds of layers of gold leaf that the devotees deposit and are deforming, much revered by Burmese Buddhists. In the temple there is a painting gallery and a collection of Khmer bronze figures. Only men are allowed to glue the gold leaf, there are cameras everywhere. Entrance fee included in the combination ticket.
