The Beginning of Rama

Around 4am I was up to catch a bus to the ancient capital of Bagan.  This is Myanmar’s equivalent of Cambodia’s Angkor.  I was fortunate to share a taxi with Rama, an Argentinean (the second I’d met in more than a year of travelling) who had travelled to many of the same places I had.  Before that he was working in Barcelona.  We share a similar laziness (as I see it) and travelling style and so became good friends very quickly.  I enjoyed his company immensely over the 12 days that we travelled together.

We arrived in Bagan and met an Andorran couple (the first Andorran I had ever met) and Simona, an Italian lady who does a lot of good in this world.  She is an inspiration.  We sorta formed a posy for a few days in Bagan.  That evening we went to see the sunset from a quiet temple.