After we spent a few days in Yangon, we took the train to Mandalay--the night "express train", which took from 5p.m. to 9 a.m. to travel at speeds of around 40km/h. For long streches, the land was completely black, after the candles and hearth fires had been extinguished: no electricty. In the stations, people watched the soccer game Germany:Argentina. We sometimes feared for our lives, because the train jolted up and down and, even scarier, left-to-right. The monk next to us smiled, whenever an especially violent kick made ... (more)