As some of you might remember I had lost my alarm clock. Not much of a problem in this country as you go to bed so early you couldn't possibly oversleep but I had an early call the next morning and needed to replace my lost friend. I thought that this was a perfect time to visit a market! How I haven't done that in a few days and now with the perfect reason.
The market for lack of a better word was complete crap. I mean literal crap. I have never seen such an unispiring pile of crap for sale. I am pleased to say that I was able buy the coolest alarm clock and learn how to work it. IT is small, square and pink. Every time you turn it on a new side it does something different. One side is a clock, next an alarm, temperature and finally timer. All this for a big two dollars. I think I found a winner. Now the challenge is to not leave it behind.
Though feeling tired and sick I felt that as it was my last day in Mandalay I needed to see Mandalay hill. I took a treshaw, seat connected to a bike, out to the hill and got hiking. It is a horrible time of year to try and see the view of pagodas and temples as it is before rainy season and there was loads and loads of dust in the air. However, it wasn't a lost cause. I found some super duper cute kids to play with and it was pretty priceless to see how excited they were to see me come back down the mountain.
Later that night I met up with the Canadian Guy, J, and a few traveleres from Hong Kong for dinner and a Marionette show. Dinner was pretty nice. We went to a foreign restaurant and ordered burgers and fry. I say fry because there was one or two per plate. The show was fun to watch but was pretty confusing. There was a story, none of us knew what was going on.....but still it was pretty interesting. A great way to end Mandalay as I leave early in the morning for Bagan.
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