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.
We arrived at 4 a.m. in Mandalay. The southern bus station is about 10 kilometers from the city. We take a taxi, which is very nice and takes us to the ET Hostel, our accommodation. We get the room and sleep for a couple of hours.
We have breakfast at the hostel, for now the simplest breakfast. We rent some bikes and make a tour that marks the Lonely that takes us to the Ayeryawadi river.
We have rented a car with a driver at the hotel as there is no bus to Kakku. But first we go up to the roof to have breakfast, you will not believe what breakfast is: a porra (delicious), a kind of giant crust, fruit, juice, coffee or tea, eggs, pancake and soup in the traditional style shan and everything spectacular, we started the day well.
We get up at 4.40 a.m., the reception has prepared breakfast for us to take away. Our boatman is waiting for us, we follow him to the canal. We get on the boat, only our engine is heard. It is cool and sparkling but in less than an hour we are in the middle of the lake and it is dawn. It's beautiful, it's surrounded by mountains. It's quite cloudy but still beautiful. The first fishermen appear, they are gathering the nets and they move the oar with their feet, they don't lose their balance while they work.
We take the 8:30 a.m. bus. It leaves from the bus station in the market, opposite Aung Chan Tha Zedi. There are several stations depending on the destination located in other parts of the city.
It's a van and it takes less than an hour to get to Shwenyaung, and here you can take a taxi or thoun bein (small truck) for the remaining 11 kilometers to Nyaungshwe.
We get up at 8.30 and come down for breakfast. The breakfast is very rich, with toast, fruit, juice, coffee and pancake.
We have to be at the station half an hour before the train leaves so we take a taxi, the man from the hostel accompanies us and gets us a good price.
When we arrive to the station we meet the Indian girl with whom we shared the potatoes yesterday in the Manhabandoola gardens, she greets us effusively, she is lovely.
We got up without hurry, had breakfast at the hostel, fruit, tea or coffee, toast and eggs, all very tasty. The family that runs it is very kind. We tell them that tomorrow we want to go to Bago by train and they tell us that we can go for a walk. The train station is very close to La Sule Paya, about 10 minutes walk. There is a pedestrian bridge on the main avenue from which to take a good picture of La Sule.
Our stopover is in Hong Kong. We arrive at seven in the morning. We have seven hours of transfer and we take the opportunity to visit a friend.
We left Burgos at half past six in the morning by car. We have a reserved parking space in a car park near terminal T4 of Madrid Barajas International Airport Adolfo Suárez, the company is Go Barajas. The car park is asphalted and has an optional car wash, although it does not have a jeans.
