Friends on a Friendship Bridge Roadtripping To a Place Called Mawlamyine
The driver is pussyfooting over the bumps in the road, I’ve just found a way to sit so my foot doesn’t go numb, and there is a guy seated in the middle of the two of us contorted in some way that I’m not able to comprehend. I’m trying to cut the guy some slack, crawling down this shitty road, the car packed full of things probably coming from the Thai border, and no lights except from cars. I’ve been traveling all day, and I’m ready to be at my hotel in Mawlamyine (colonial spelling: Moulmein).
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December 25, 2014 | Categories: Asia, Myanmar, Thailand, Travel | Tags: asia, beer, border crossing, Burmese food, Food stalls, Kayin State, Mae Sot, Mawlamyine, Mon State, Moulmein, Myanmar, Myanmar food, Myawaddy, off the beaten path, Pagodas, Thailand, Thanwlin River, tourism, travel, vegetarian | Leave a comment