Why Right Now Is the Easiest Time to Travel
| April 4, 2016
2. Technology Is Everywhere
When I arrived in Myanmar a month later and saw the amount of people staring endlessly into their smartphones, I wondered if I had gone to the right country! It’s opened the borders to the world recently and you can already see the consequences, both good and bad.
The internet in Myanmar is extremely bad compared to Thailand, but it exists and you can still do nearly everything you need to do — apart from video calls and heavy downloads/uploads. You’re never completely cut off from the world, and if you need to contact someone, it takes seconds.
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