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Traveling My-an-mar through P eyes I Many thanks to P for consent to blog these ‘shxt’ e-letters (hoho, sure, after my censorship and just excerpts). So good to feel on the road thru another person’s eyes and senses, but only provided when/where there is internet access and it seems only available in Yangon. Hence, some highlighted moments in no-internet places you cannot see and feel but I can unfold all later back in Macau. And way to keep our memory alive. (Abt my traveller - of 1970s, a realist/surrealist...) Myanmarrrrrrrrrr ‒ On Arrival in Yangon Sunny day today...got myself inside Burma without any visa problem. i was lucky to have a lady in a good mood for the immigration procedure but not until i have lost my 7 o’clock flight and some extra 4000bht but i am finally here...my mood is great…it seems that communication here is a little problem - i was told that a sim card costs usd3000!!! and that sounds really crazy...now, i am insane...i feel like doing many different things at the same time...gonna take a bath then some sleep...i guess people and circumstances can alter my everything, but let me tell you i feel much relieved to be here...i only have to worry now about those young Burmese boys trying to mess with me in a good way...They are horne?y and look carefree... nevertheless, they are very happy with big smiles and naughty assumptions...i had got used to it by now...i remember last time i was in Burma for a day with ZL,and at 5 in the afternoon we found ourselves watching the sun-set, drinking coffee with 5 boys sitting on our table...Honestly, i had no idea where they did come from but they all looked safe and confident in our company eating the icecream we offered them...i guess reality here is somewhat different from what we are used to...hardly understandable from what we know and are used to...we just had some small bombings in Bangkok, you can wait until they finish those American casinos over there in Macau,then you will see what a big one looks like!!! Now time is precious, time is gold and i gotta run, with or without energy...u say Burma is dangerous for traveling...i ‘d judge myself …well, Laos was crazy and i did love it more for that particular reason, i like the places where life makes a completely different sense, even it is absurd to some...i guess danger is like the chilly that spices up your life and i got so much used to it that i dont call it danger, i call it life and living life full life...i can actually laugh insanely at it as it comes my way... a month is like a week in here, never enough to me and for me... bombolay mandalay bom shankar ps- thats the 1970s hippie greetings based on the places, the scenes,the culture, happenings, u know? In those days like you said before there was more hope and more dreams, some people they had their own world with their own language like groovy, hipp, and their own ideas like the citizen of the world, people without possessions, religion and country, people that went as rebels from the so called civilized world to unify it with the 3 world making the world as one...there was timothy leary,oner of the gurus and leaders about that liberation movement of the expansion of the mind and the opening of the doors of perception... gratefull dead(rock band),and that large hippie community that used to cross south east asia by land, settling in the remote nice places in between and one of them was this mythical northen burmese city hidden in the mountain and clouds mist called Mandalay...Shangrila is another one, Goa another and so many others in between...then there is that holly Tibetan plateau and of course the highest mountain range in the world where you have the highest border cross in the world (India-Nepal)not to mention the religious and cultural diversity in that place that not only attracted our ancestors but still is attracting our descendants...and that quiet and magical, blessed and holly stone cold mountain range goes from Yunnan up until Iran...so i guess no matter how i feel the magic of that bliss takes over all things like the total spiritual power of God... 
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