Travel Update: How did I get to Myanmar?

I have only posted some photos from past travels in the last few days, but in fact, I have been on the road again for almost a week - time for a travel update from Yangon, Myanmar!

I spent my birthday today exploring this amazing city. The best birthday present I could have wished for reached me one day early when I checked my emails yesterday and found a mail from @sndbox telling me that I was accepted into their new cohort that starts today! I am really grateful for this opportunity and am working on some posts about my recent travels. I still can't believe that within one week, I got from living in a small student apartment in Germany to seeing so many amazing places and ending up here in Myanmar - so how did I get here?

Copenhagen

When I was looking for flights to Asia, due to the peak holiday season all flights from Germany were heavily overpriced, even flights with a 12 hour layover didn't start below 380€. Luckily though, I found a cheap direct flight from Copenhagen to Bangkok with Norwegian for only 245€. Since on eBay they sell vouchers for any Europe-wide trip with the German bus line Flixbus for only 17€, I took the 16 hour bus to Copenhagen and enjoyed an afternoon in the city. I have already visited Copenhagen last year on my roadtrip from Norway to Germany, but back then, I could hardly take any photos since it was raining the whole time. With the current heat wave in Europe, I got lucky this time and was able to take my new Sigma 18-35 mm F1.8 lens for a walk around this beautiful city.

Two nights in Bangkok

On Sunday morning, I arrived in Bangkok and the same day, I had an awesome Steemit meet-up with @worldcapture and @travelling-two! We went to a night market and had a few beers and some really interesting conversations.
Sam aka @travelling-two has made a great video that you should check out where you can watch me capturing this shot:

My flight didn't make it...

No, just kidding, this is a photo I took at the airplane graveyard in Bangkok where I ended up the next day thanks to a combination of pure luck and a #travelfeed post about this place that I read a couple of months ago! Although I got there in the last light of the day, this place is a photographer's dream and I will make a separate post about it soon!

Arriving in Myanmar

Last night I arrived in Yangon and today I spent my birthday wandering the streets of Yangon and exploring the beautiful Shwedagon pagoda (top photo). So far, I totally love Myanmar and can't wait to see what this country will offer me in the next weeks!

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