Myanmar 79 Yangon Just a short stroll

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Myanmar
Yangon
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Just taking a stroll
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Downtown Yangon is a dilapidated mixture of
broken sidewalks, crumbling colonial era
buildings and food vendors. Merchant Street is
particularly crowded with vendors selling
anything from spicy cherries to savory crepe-like
pancakes filled with goodness. Burmese food is
neither Indian nor Thai, but a delicious flavor
palate of its own. The city is an amalgamation of
British, Burmese, Chinese and Indian influences,
known for its colonial architecture, which
although decaying and beyond appreciation,
remains an almost unique example of a 19th
century British colonial capital.
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All Myanmar traffic goes on the right-hand side
of the road. This wasnt always so. In an effort
to distance itself from the British colonial
period, the military government instigated an
overnight-switch from the left to the right in
1970. By far, most cars either date from before
1970, or are low-cost Japanese models, so
steering wheels are perilously found on the
right-hand side this becomes particularly dicey
when a driver blindly zooms to the left to pass a
car!
Mango trees
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Central Business District (Downtown)
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Foreigners are permitted to buy bus tickets of
any class, using kyat, to any destination within
or near the main YangonBaganMandalayTaunggyi
quadrangle. Some sites require government fees,
but the following areas are only accessible via
previously arranged government permits from the
MTT office in Yangon or a government-run trip.
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New high-rise buildings were constructed from the
1990s (and some are eerily unoccupied and left as
ghost skyscrapers as seen along Upper Pansodan
Rd) as the government began to allow private
investment. Meanwhile, former government
buildings such as the massive Secretariat
Building, have been left to rot as the capital is
shifted to Naypyidaw.
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From Hotel window
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Yangon Panorama hotel
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Yangon Panorama hotel
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Yangon Panorama hotel
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Yangon Panorama hotel
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Yangon Panorama hotel
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City Hall
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Centrally located in downtown Yangon, Yangon City
Hall is next to several important landmarks such
as Sule Pagoda, Maha Bandula Park, High Court,
and the Main Post Office. The building is
considered a fine example of syncretic Burmese
architecture, featuring traditional tiered roofs
called pyatthat, and was designed by Burmese
architect U Tin, who also designed Central
Railway Station
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The city hall has been the focal point of several
major political demonstrations
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The city hall has been the focal point of several
major political demonstrations, including a 1964
People's Peace Committee rally supported by
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, which attracted 200,000
people and was subsequently clamped down by the
Socialist regime and the site of several
bombings, including one in 2000, 2008, and 2009
Immanuel Baptist Church is located in the center
of Yagon just next to the Mahabandoola Garden
near city hall. Founded in 1885 but destroyed
during the World War II the present Church was
rebuilt in 1952
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Sule Pagoda
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Sule Pagoda
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Mango tree
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Supreme Court Justice of Myanmar
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The Yangon Sakura Tower
The Yangon Region Court building on Strand Road
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Strand Hotel
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Declared the finest hostelry East of Suez by
John Murray in his Handbook for Travellers
written in the early 20th century, Strand Hotel,
the 1901-built three storey building remains one
of Southeast Asias grand colonial hotel and one
of its most awe inspiring as it was in the early
20th Century
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The Strand (also known as Strand Hotel) is a
Victorian-style hotel built in 1896 by Aviet and
Tigran Sarkie, two of the Sarkies Brothers. The
hotel, which opened in 1901, which faces the
Hlaing or Yangon River to its south, is one
of the most famous hotels in Yangon and Southeast
Asia, and is managed by the General Hotel
Management. The hotel is named after its address,
at 92 Strand Road.
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on the way to the airport
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