An hour outside Mandalay, a bumpy road ends at a ferry crossing over a tributary of the Irrawaddy River.

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Now I feel a childish enthusiasm crossing Victoria Harbour on the Star Ferry.

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The ferry at the Mekong crossing of Ban Muang in Laos operates in a pretty laissez-faire sort of way.

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