In Bagan

This post is out of order. It should be after Mandalay, Again.

From Mandalay we took the fast boat to Bagan on the Ayeyarwady River. It was about a ten hour trip. Was fascinating to see Burma go past the boat as we cruised down the river.

After we had been at our hotel for a couple of days Jim was coming back to the room and he saw a snake sunning itself on the concrete step under our door. When the snake saw Jim it beat a very hasty retreat and Jim came on into our room. An hour or so later when Jim was sitting on the porch, under which the snake had escaped, he told one of the hotel employees that he had seen a snake. The employee as "Was it a Cobra"? To which Jim replied "I don't now what it was, but it wasn't a rattlesnake". Shortly after that a search ensued for the snake, without finding it. We finally got around to trying to identify the snake, and thanks to Google, yes, it was a Cobra.