Having just arrived in Myanmar we had no local money yet. The banks here will give less than half of what you get on the black market. So we asked the driver about exchanging money. No problem. He drove deep into a labyrinth of downtown alleyways. Half an hour later he stopped in front of an apartment building and he said ‘give me the money and you stay in the car’. We did feel just a tad worried after he left us parked in an old downtown neighborhood and disappeared…..