- Guys, we're in the middle of nowhere.
We're literally taking these random dirt tracks
to
go pagoda hunting.
(relaxed guitar music)
Very nice.
I like it.
(waggon wheels creaking)
(relaxed guitar music)
(voice calling)
(birds chirping)
(engine humming)
(car horn honking)
Hours later, we've finished hot air ballooning
here in Bagan.
We're just outside our hotel room
and we're just about to hire an e-bike.
Second day here in Bagan.
Definitely....
(scooter engine roaring)
Definitely do the hot air ballooning
if you ever come to Bagan.
It's quite amazing, the views are spectacular.
You will have to get up at four-thirty in the morning
and we got picked up at five-fifteen this morning
and definitely worth every cent of it.
Great experience.
The balloon was jam-packed though,
there was 12 of us in that basket, I swear.
It was like a nightclub, that's how much room there was
in that basket.
It was shoulder to shoulder.
But yeah, definitely a great experience, come check it out.
Robs?
- Yeah, it was awesome, you gotta do it guys.
- You gotta do it. - Hot air ballooning in Bagan.
- You gotta do it.
- Yeah.
- You gotta do it. - You gotta do it.
You gotta do it, right?
- You gotta do it.
- That's right.
And again.
- You gotta do it!
- THat's right! (laughing)
Oh, he's casually, - Oh, he's a businessman!
(laughing) (scooter engine roaring)
- All right, we'll edit that out of the video.
I'm just kidding, we'll keep it in, we'll keep it in.
G'day world, we're in Myanmar
on an e-bike.
Just hired this little bike, 7,000 Kyats.
It's seven Aussie dollars,
and we're riding past these little pagodas, check them out.
Look at that.
Robsie is on the back.
Here you go Robs.
- Squished up.
- Hold the stick.
- I'm holding the stick-- - There we go.
- [Robyn] Okay, okay.
- [Brad] There we go.
- [Robs] Mine.
- This electric bike is really strange.
It doesn't make any noise.
And today there are no side mirrors on this bike.
(laughing)
Which is very frustrating.
It's really, I have a motorbike back home
and it's good to see what's behind you but, I have no idea
what's behind me. - You know that I'll be
your back mirrors today.
- You'll be my back mirrors? - How's that?
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- And, by the way, we have no idea where we're going,
we're just down this random dirt track.
We're gonna try and make it to Old Bagan.
- I think it's in the opposite direction, no?
- What?
Is it, is it really?
(laughing)
Is it?
- Well, I thought it was up.
Just keep going.
Ah, look.
(tyres crunching)
- [Brad] All right, we have no idea where we're going.
- [Robyn] Oh look, stop!
- [Brad] Look at them!
- [Robyn] (in high-pitched voice) It's like a wildlife,
it's like a wildlife safari!
- [Brad] Look at them.
- Aah, guys. - Aah, look at them.
- [Robyn] Hi puppies, hi.
(wind blowing) (tyres crunching)
- [Robyn] On the tripod.
- (indiscernible) - That's cool.
We need to see all the things.
(tyres crunching)
(kissing)
- We are
in
the middle
of nowhere.
- That is true.
I'll just turn you around and show you
the middle of nowhere.
- [Brad] We don't even know where we're going.
(mumbling) (tyres crunching)
We're just cruising around here, man.
- [Robyn] Just cruising around, who knows.
- [Brad] We're on some dirt track, here.
- [Robyn] No, we're back to the south game.
- [Brad] We're onto some dirt track.
In the middle of, - Sun, there's the sun.
- Myanmar. - Go towards the sun, honey.
- [Brad] D'you want a coconut?
- [Robyn] Yes.
- Hello, you want to go inside?
- [Brad] Coconut.
- [Stall Vendor] Okay, okay.
- [Robyn] Okay!
She's got the biggest smile.
- Okay, so we're about to have a sugar cane juice.
Robsie has never had one before,
it's her first time here in Bagan.
Check this out, I love how they make these.
(machine rattling)
- Really, really cool.
I've had them in Zanzibar.
(machine rattling)
Uh oh.
(hoofbeats trotting)
Some technical difficulties starting the engine.
(engine whirring)
The literally just get sugar cane stalks
and they push them through
and out comes the sugar cane juice.
There's your sugar cane juice.
(talking in foreign language).
- [Stall Vendor] Ice?
- [Brad] D'you want ice?
- [Robyn] Yes please.
Oh no, no, no, no.
No ice, just plain is fine, thank you.
- [Brad] I'll take it with my camera.
(talking in foreign language)
There you go, Robs.
All right I want you to taste it,
oh, you want a photo first.
- Mmmm,
oh it's nice.
- [Brad] Do you like it?
- Mmmm.
(car horn honking) (engines roaring)
- All right, quick update for everybody watching.
We're in Old Bagan in Myanmar
and we've just literally been cruising around
in our e-bike, just checking out the pagodas
and things like that.
And we've literally just stumbled across,
I've never seen, literally,
I've never seen so many puppets hanging from a tree.
Check this out.
Look at how many, look at how many puppets there are.
There's Robsie.
What do you think Robsie, lot of puppets, hey?
(engine roaring)
Look at them all.
And then every now and again you'll see
a horse and carriage just go past like this.
(hoofbeats clopping)
Robs and I, we're still at this puppet place.
I must say, I'm not into puppets personally,
but I am impressed by just the sheer number of puppets
that are hanging off the trees here
with umbrellas, like Japanese-looking umbrellas.
But like, the intricate detail of the puppets here,
and this is just on the side of the road here in Old Bagan.
And we've just found this swing,
Robs is sitting on this swing,
which is a little bit of a running theme
with our journey where we met on the swings
in the Philippines in April this year.
(calm piano music)
- [Brad] How are you?
- [Robyn] (indiscernible)
- How good is it?
- [Robyn] It's amazing!
- Is it like Boracay or what?
- [Robyn] (laughing) It's crazy!
Did you see my unicorn escape?
- No way.
(calm piano music)
And everywhere we go in the world
we see swings like this or some version of where we met.
And it's just a constant reminder of when we met.
So, in Myanmar we found a swing and this is it,
and there's only enough room for one person, so.
Hey Robs, hey?
I might break it.
- (laughing) You always say that.
- [Brad] It's always true.
- You always say that.
- [Brad] It's always true.
(engine roaring)
Like, pagodas everywhere, look at them all.
(zipper zipping)
(laughing)
That one's getting renovations.
Take a photo of that, that's a cool little restaurant.
Guys, we're in the middle of nowhere.
We're literally taking these random dirt tracks
to
go pagoda hunting, really.
(laughing) (bike rattling)
Going off the beaten track here guys!
What I love about this place is,
literally you can just be riding along,
then all of a sudden out of nowhere,
seven pagodas show up.
You see the pointy tops first.
(engine roaring)
Good afternoon everybody,
two o'clock in the afternoon.
We've just finished at the restaurant, Royal Restaurant.
Amazing food, we were just on the side of the road here
and we just stopped at one temple.
We actually went to this temple yesterday.
We walked inside, took our shoes off, walked inside
and walked inside the temple
which is really, really amazing.
This is the name of it, so maybe just write this one down
so if you come here, definietly come
and check out this temple.
I'll just walk around the other side.
Big red sign, can't miss it.
Right there. (engine roaring)
And that's where the temple is.
SO you drive up this driveway,
and on the way out yesterday,
I actually bought some paintings for
15,000
MMK;
so 15 Australian dollars,
just to support the artist that was there yesterday
selling her painitngs.
So, yeah, but anyway,
and literally just across the road,
it's proably going to very hard to see this;
there's another temple that has scaffolding on it.
We were there just a moment ago
before we went to the Indian restaurant, just there.
(enigine roaring)
Anyway, so we're now heading back to the old,
what they call Old Bagan.
So there's New Bagan and Old Bagan,
so we're heading back to Old Bagan
to go and check out some temples there.
Look at this.
(laughing) (wind blowing)
- [Robyn] Of course.
- [Brad] What?
Of course.
(wind blowing)
Oh up there, we're going up there Robs, look.
(engine roaring)
So this guy is taking us,
the guy that we bought the umbrella from,
he's taking us to a pagoda where we can watch the sunset.
Ah, look at that.
Woohoo!
All right, we're here.
(feet crunching)
Here we go.
Oh, look at this.
Oh, wow! - Look there.
- Where are we going? - Look at those colours
of whatever that is.
- [Brad] Keep walking Robs.
- [Robyn] See that?
- [Brad] Which colours?
Ah, yeah.
(speaking in foreign language)
Ah, yeah.
So we have to climb up a very steep staircase.
All right, so I'm using the flashlight on my phone.
Oh, this is very narrow.
(laughing) Robs! - Yeah?
- [Brad] So we're clmbing through a temple
to get to the roof--
- [Robyn] Oh, there's a spider!
- [Brad] Is there?
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Robyn] No, I think spider I've seen.
- [Brad] I'm literally holding a phone and a camera
and a second camera.
- [Guide] Okay?
- [Robyn] Yeah.
You okay?
- [Brad] Yeah.
(heavy breathing)
- [Robyn] You can do it, Bradsie.
(heavy breathing)
- [Brad] Okay.
- [Robyn] Take shoes off.
(heavy breathing)
- [Brad] Oh, we're here.
- (speaking in foreign language)
- [Brad] Oh, yes.
- We are sitting in Myanmar, Bagan.
Bagan or Bagan?
And we are sitting on the top of a temple, pagoda,
and we are watching the sunset.
And it's absolutely spectacular.
It's really beautiful.
And once we've finished this, once the sun goes down
we're gonna go and grab a beer and some lovely local food
in a restaurant we found when we saw
the long-necked lady who was weaving scarves,
the scarf that I have bought.
So that's our plan,
so right now, we are wathcing the sun go down.
It's really special. - It's not a bad idea
to actually find out the sunset time so you don't miss it.
So it's about twenty-past-five now.
Google said the sunset's about five-thirty,
and we've been here for about 30 minutes now,
and literally in the last couple of minutes
10 people have showed up.
So it's probably not a bad idea to get here early
and secure a spot.
So I'll quickly turn you around,
this is what it looks like.
(engine roaring)
(camera shutter clicking)
- And all looking at the temples,
all the temples behind us.
They change colour when they're lit up by the sun.
- All you can hear now are literally cameras.
(laughing) - (indiscernible)
- Chaching!
Ching!
That's it gone.
- Boom.
- Gone, gone now.
(soothing guitar music)