Joko and Nicki go to Myawaddy - Part 3

You know there’s one thing about walking down a city street with Nicki Rangoon, my 6’0” TG gf, is that if she’s walking in front of me, nobody is looking at me. And that’s just fine. You see, pale-skinned foreigners are a rare sight outside of the tourist areas of Myanmar, and so the people here naturally watch me wherever I go. Stare at me, even. This somewhat provincial behavior doesn’t really bother me. You wouldn’t last long being a foreigner anywhere in SE Asia if it did.

Having Venus-like, full-hipped, wavy-haired goddess sauntering through the crowded street market in front of me – every head turns. Even though I was in a dusty little border town, somehow, nobody was interested in the white guy following behind.  

Other than the casino (returning there while the day was still young seemed inappropriate), there wasn’t much left to see or do there in Myawaddy by day 3. That said, one place you can always turn to for a full sensory experience anywhere in SE Asia is the open-air market. Turned out, Nicki had some business to conduct there as well – imported things are remarkable less expensive there on the border than they are back in Yangon. 

Eventually, we headed out for a final evening at the casinos. Mind you, I had done some of research on the town beforehand, and whereas Myawaddy Complex was by far the most mentioned and visited gaming establishment there on the river, there were others. A place called the Sun City Casino looked interesting. I’d seen it on Google maps. There were pictures of it, although I couldn’t identify how to get there from the Myanmar side of the river. Like Myawaddy Complex, this place specifically targeted Thai customers via a short boat-ride across the border. No passport stamps or visas or anything like that. After going entirely the wrong way, we eventually ended up in the area of Sun City; I even saw it at one point down the river a ways. It was a weird district filled with junk shops.

Used Thai merchandise, broken and ready for recycling, makes its way across the border to be sold on the cheap in Myanmar. Although the journey was interesting, we never did find a land route to Sun City. I concluded it was only accessible by boat from the river. 

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