Myanmar- Day 9

Yangoon- February 3, 2014

It's the last day of our trip so we went around Chinatown early in the morning and packed our stuff before
heading to the shopping mall for lunch and to have my nails done. As usual, they charge higher since I am a foreigner. Mitchell wanted to buy a bag at around 3 when I was done with the cleaning but from another shopping mall so we went there. Unfortunately, the money changer was already closed at 4 and the banks don't have any money to change into kyats so she went further away just to change money. Eventually we bought the bag rushed back to the hotel to collect our bags and arrived at the airport. The worse thing happened, we we're late for check in so the staff did not allow us to get on board anymore. No matter how much we pleaded, it was of no use. Just because of the freaking bag. Now we've learned our lesson, as a tourist we need to have emergency money. Like what happened to us, the airline can provide us a change of flight but only going to Saigon. It was peak season so flights to Hanoi are fully booked. We had to pool our resources to go to another hotel for a night and to buy tickets going to Bangkok then to Hanoi. We had to sleep at the airport the next night because we arrived at 11 in the evening then our flight was 7 a.m the next morning. Thank God, budget airlines we're available or else our vacation would have been so ruined. Nevertheless, it was a fun holiday and the mistakes we made we're lessons learned. So next trip, we'll try to remember them and  plan our vacation well.