Our first stop in Myanmar was Yangon, a city that still tells it's history. Everywhere you can see old British houses, which are either deserted or not taken care are off. These houses must have been amazing in the past, today they just show us how much things have changed.
We walked around the old town, where you could still find remains of the British colonialism with the old city hall and street structures. We had a break at a tea house and just watched people walking by while drinking our tea and eating some noodles. We feel in love with this country right there. Everybody smiles at you, people ask you where you are from, they are happy to see you. This honest smiles is someone that we didn't see so often in Asia in the past months, however in Myanmar we can see them everywhere. Despite Yangon being totally dirty and the poverty you can see everywhere, Myanmar got us in its ban.
On our second day we took a train ride through the outskirts of Yangon. This was one of my favorite parts of our trip. There were no tourists, only locals in the train which costs about 20 cent for 3 hours. To get to the right train we just had to cross the rails right after the train came in the station (this just feels wrong haha). Deutsche bahn does not agree! During the ride we saw markets, villages and just the normal live in Myanmar, everything feels like we are traveling back in time. The train is so old and moves so slow, the farmers working on the fields using wooden "machines", woman carrying heavy stones or vegetables on their head and just children playing in the dirt. Nobody is using a cellphone or something like it, we felt so weird with our big camera and and iPad in the bag, suddenly you are the rich person who is able to travel and see other things while all these people sitting next to us are worrying about clean water and enough food for the day. However, all these people here are so happy and you see nobody complaining. This is something we have to learn: we always complain even though we have enough of everything - just be happy and take you life easy!
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