Wednesday 16 February.

Up at 4.30 to get to the airport for our 7.30 flight to Mandalay.  Since the restaurant wasn’t open, the hotel provided us with picnic breakfasts, and off we went.  Another interesting experience.  We had been in a number of airports around the world, but none quite as ‘artisanal’ as the Yangon domestic airport.  Luckily Myo ushered us through the crowd to the desk, and someone took our bag. She had also explained that someone would walk through with a sign indicating which plane was boarding, so we should be sure to look out for the number of our flight.  Our plane was called and off we went.  In fact the plane was quite modern and the flight was comfortable.