Myanmar

Hello all!

After two months of traveling throughout Thailand, it is my last day in the country as I prepare to fly to Yangon, Myanmar this evening. Thailand has been a wonderful experience filled with memorable moments, wonderful people, and overall great times.
As I move to my second country, I expect and welcome a difference in culture, infrastructure, and experiences.  Since Myanmar is still developing as a nation, I expect to post a lot fewer posts in the 3.5 weeks I travel here as blackouts are common and WiFi is horrendously slow. Hopefully I will at least be able to post pictures as those are easier to get online than the huge GoPro movie files.
My general plan is to avoid the beaches in the south of the country and move north from Yangon to the cooler temperatures of the more mountainous areas around and north of Mandalay. Over my time in Thailand I have found that I enjoy finding the more rural and off the beaten paths, so I plan to seek out these places for more authentic experiences.
While each year they are lessening, there are still many areas tourists are restricted from entering. While this is preventing me from traveling to the most eastern parts of the Himalayan mountains on the northern border, I plan on traveling up to the far north to where tourists rarely get to. I have heard Myanmar called, "Thailand 20-40 years ago", which excites me enormously, as I am itching to find myself lost in a remote area as the only westerner, which is much harder to find here in Thailand.

Later!