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Mingalaba, Having completed our list of countries a full month earlier than expected, we were faced with the happy dilemma of filling our final weeks with something we hadn't originally planned. We had different ideas about how to spend this time; I was for returning to the Togian islands for a month of skin-diving and sun-soaked nappy-naps in the hammocks next to the water. Tatyana was up for some wandering around Bangladesh. Since we're not very good at hanging around (though I could have tried really hard), we eventually kicked the beach idea and focused on places we had not yet been. With an additional week or two, we would have had enough time to hit both Bangladesh and Myanmar, but two weeks in each seemed like a little bit of theft from both, so we had to pick one. Seeing as how Bangladesh is charging an arm and a leg for visas, and getting there would require some transit through the sweaty armpit of India--Kolkata--we instead cast our eyes to Myanmar. There is a lot of