poorly maintained track. fly back to new york for breakfast. i haven t had time. what s yours? potato. how do you make good look at this, a bouquet of fish. indeed. this is the plain of bagan. out the window, the modern world seems to fade away, then disappear all together, like the last century never happened, or even the century before that. we re traveling across the largest mainland nation in southeast asia. but it should be pointed out
so you heard the sleeping call of the whale? and the dining car? no, we lost the dining car, i hear. but even our car of the wheel. we just have to hope for the best. the night express to bagan. 600 kilometers of what will turn out to be kidney-softening travel by rail, but bagan, myanmar s ancient capital, i m told, is a must see. the true old english experience. the engine is a french engine from the 70s. we ve been told it s a somewhat uncomfortable ten-hour trip. so really the question on this end of the journey is come back
.and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. yeah. so you heard the sleeping call of the whale? and the dining car? no, we lost the dining car, i hear. but even our car of the wheel. we just have to hope for the best. the night express to bagan. 600 kilometers of what will turn out to be kidney-softening travel by rail, but bagan, myanmar s ancient capital, i m told, is a must see.
all right. bagan, here we come. a thousand years ago bagan was the capital for a long line of kings. it s the sort of place where the old coexists with the even older. as elsewhere in this part of the world. in many of the buddhist temples here more spirit-based beliefs coexist with buddhism. and in myanmar, worship of the gnats are wore shipped, they re gods, obvious with human
1,000? 1,000. done. now, this is breakfast. nearly 19 hours into our ten-hour trip in the night express to bagan lurches and bounces onward over old and poorly maintained track. fly back to new york for breakfast. i haven t had time. what s yours? arrowroot. potato. how do you make good look at this, a bouquet of fish. indeed. this is the plain of bagan. out the window, the modern world seems to fade away, then disappear all together, like the last century never happened, or