Today we actually made it out off bed early enough to have breakfast and then walk the beach towards Ngwe saung town before the sun got too high in the sky. The benefit of staying close to the ocean is that it doesn't get that hot during the day as is some of the other locations we've been to in Myanmar. But the sun is still scorching hot from 9 AM and until late in the afternoon.
So we walked down to the beach and spent the next 1½ hours walking past resorts, meeting a few people on the beach which mainly was deserted - empty - ours alone. Except for a couple of places serving drinks on the beach it is an untouched beach packed with resorts. Nice resorts it looks like. We stopped at the only place on the beach with a PADI flag and asked for trips and prices. Seems like USD 80-100 is the level here depending on how many dives you want to do on your day trip but since we knew were weren't going we didn't try to negotiate. They only offered two dive sites but we've have done so much diving in Thailand last month.
We made it to Ngwe saung town which is surprisingly big, lots of shops and only a single ATM and this morning no power. We stocked up on Coca cola, Myanmar Rum, a few mixers and some snacks and had a guy on a scooter driving us back to the resort. Then we went to the beach, relaxed, read our books, took a couple of swims in the ocean and headed back to our patio for sunset drinks. This is just what we needed and looked for.
So we walked down to the beach and spent the next 1½ hours walking past resorts, meeting a few people on the beach which mainly was deserted - empty - ours alone. Except for a couple of places serving drinks on the beach it is an untouched beach packed with resorts. Nice resorts it looks like. We stopped at the only place on the beach with a PADI flag and asked for trips and prices. Seems like USD 80-100 is the level here depending on how many dives you want to do on your day trip but since we knew were weren't going we didn't try to negotiate. They only offered two dive sites but we've have done so much diving in Thailand last month.
We made it to Ngwe saung town which is surprisingly big, lots of shops and only a single ATM and this morning no power. We stocked up on Coca cola, Myanmar Rum, a few mixers and some snacks and had a guy on a scooter driving us back to the resort. Then we went to the beach, relaxed, read our books, took a couple of swims in the ocean and headed back to our patio for sunset drinks. This is just what we needed and looked for.
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| Breakfast on the patio |
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| Small rock temple on the beach |
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| Seems to be an OK place to eat |
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| Untouched beach - almost |
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| Local market in Ngwe saung town |
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| Ready for sunset drinks |
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| Can never have too much of this |
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