Today I decided to visit the south and center areas. I saw one pagoda which was filled with so many paintings all over the walls. I saw another that had an example of a double arch construction. I saw a lot of cows and sheep along the trails where I rode my bike. Farmers were moving the animals.
After reaching the farthest south point, I had some fresh sugar cane juice. They have machines here that will squeeze any juice out of the raw sugar cane and tastes pretty good.
I treated myself with some pizza today. There is an Italian restaurant here. For $3.33 I got a Italian style pizza and it wasn’t too bad.
Then I decided to go see the sunset, since everyone likes to do that. I had some trouble finding a spot to view. The first place I tried didn’t have much of a view, the second place the stairs were gated shut, and the third place I finally climbed up with a bunch of other foreign tourists. It was ok. But too bad I discovered another flat tire when I returned to my bicycle.
I rode it back to town and found a guy to repair it. While I waited I decided to try some food at a Myanmar restaurant. I ordered a vegetable dish and some rice. The waitress asked if I wanted some curry, like chicken or pork or vegetable. She said she had a lot of vegetable. I said I’ll try a vegetable curry, but I was kind of shocked when all was finished there were 16 plates on my table! There were 10 plates of different curries, soup, a second soup because I finished half of my first soup, salad, fresh vegetables, rice, and the original dish I ordered.
I was panicking because I just ate an entire pizza three hours ago. I was thinking now it is my turn to get scammed. I asked the waitress if I have to pay for all of this or only what I eat. She said all. I tried to eat as much as I could , tried everything. I wish I was with someone else to share this meal and the whole time I was fearing the final price.
When I asked, she said 1500 kyat. I was shocked. That’s $1.25 and there’s 16 plates on my table? Well, it wasn’t a scam, I got the local price. They even gave me some small dessert snacks.
I got my bike back and rested in my room.