After 19 hours from Helsinki, with a long layover in Bangkok, I finally arrived in Mandalay super beat.

The travel from the airport to the hostel, the friendly Yo Yo Lei hostel, is around 30 minutes and it does not give the entire idea of what is to come since the landscape is very dry and not so many people are around on the way. I did not have much time, or energy, to go around on the city so the best way was to head to the restaurant close to the hotel.