So much to see and do in Myanmar!

Kawkariek to Hpa-an 94km
Wow this country is an assault on the senses. Everywhere you look there is something new to see. Just sitting having a cup of Chinese tea, (flasks of it are free in every tea house) is absolutely entertaining. The noise, the smell, it feels like we are part of the wild west.
We took a long time over breakfast with our Swiss friends, enjoying the fried bread dipped in milky sugary coffee and samosas. The tea house was busy with locals and the retired school headmaster joined us, he said he was the only local who spoke English, he was hard to understand but told us his age, 60 over!!
Traffic was pretty good, getting used to the various horn sounds, little toot, all good, longer and louder, I see you but move over, insistent blast, I am not slowing down and I am passing now... Trucks are great, buses as usual pretty inconsiderate. Arrived in Hpa-an about 4, quite a long hot dusty day but flat.  Booked a tour for the next day, found a nice place to stay for $20 and enjoyed a beer then a $1 dinner at the tea house across the road with Bea and Piet.
Breakfast next morning at the tea house, the plates of food keep coming and at the end they count the number of plates empty and charge per plate. Eggs, fried everything, sweet rice things, samosas, coffee... What you don't eat gets passed onto the next table, a lot of food sharing going on. We suspect the chance of a food related illness has increased dramatically! The tea houses often have tea boys working day and night. They are from poor families who can not afford to feed them so they are sent to be tea boys in exchange for food and board. Very young kids working very hard... Child labour seems common here.
Then off at 8.30am in the back of a small taxi truck with 4 backpackers around the area. Buddhas, pagodas and caves. 1021 Buddha's at one place...nice scenery of limestone karsts and rice paddies. We were out all day, whizzing around hanging on in the back of the truck as it bumped along the rough roads, finished watching the bats come out of cave. Back to our hotel at 7.15 exhausted.
Things we noticed over the last couple of days,
Cars drive on the right hand side of the road but most of the cars are also right side drive, over taking they seem to have the passenger calling the shots!
We saw large blocks of ice stored under sawdust to keep it from melting, not much electricity in some places.
Ox carts are normal...horse taxis too...
Trucks look like China's cast offs.
Water is communal wells or delivered by truck.
Roads are just over one lane wide and the only obvious rule is keep right.
Feels more like Java in that we have to watch what is coming towards us more than what is behind us.
The people are very friendly and their faces absolutely light up, they give a big genuine smile if we say hello or wave.