Kandawgyi Lake
The Sun rises over the lake. Yangon is full of parks, and we looked into this...
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Downtown
Is it mold from the permanent humidity (especially during the rainy...
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Downtown
But in any case, the future promises to be better--for a few.
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Street scene
Next to all this, life pulsed through the rain--young monks inspecting a used...
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Street scene
And the unstoppable abundance of food, from little stalls, booths, trays,...
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Betel Chew Roller
He is rolling the leaves for the betel chew, at Scott's Market.
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Betel Chew Roller
Or here at Mahabandoola Rd in downtown.
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More Food
Mangos at Scott's market.
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Young monk
This young monk made his morning rounds begging for alms.
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Old Monk
This old monk spends his day in a "retirement" house in the monastery...
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Chaukhtatgyi Paya
The Buddha, immediately before he died. This statue is simply enormous.
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Ngahtatgyi Paya
Across the Street, the Buddha rises five or so storeys high.
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Mahabandoola Road
Sule Paya, the oldest (although many times rebuilt), sits in the center of...
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Bus at Mahabandoola Rd
It was the rainy seaon, and in many faces I found a slightly melancholy...
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Fish market
The cab driver asked three times, incredulous that we wanted to go to the...
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Fish market
Shrimp, heaps of it.
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Fish market
You need ice with the fish, but you may not quite want to leave it...
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Fish market
... to be carted to the ice crushing machine, a primordial monster...
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Fish market
Once crushed, the ice is combined with the fish, both are wrapped in Banana...
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Fish market
... carried off in old-fashioned manner and ...
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Fish market
... heaved onto a truck by three men and put into its proper place by two more.
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Fish market
Some, however, just get their supplies without any packaging and little ice.
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Shwedagon
And now for something different: the world-famous Shwedagon Paya.
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Shwedagon
You've seen the big stupa elsewhere (and you will again soon). Here are a...
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Shwedagon
These small stupas surround the big chedi/stupa.
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Shwedagon
The Chedi: top ...
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Shwedagon
... bottom, and ...
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Shwedagon
... the very top, which has numerous gems and jewels, which you cannot really...
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Shwedagon
It is an architectural marvel, though not a structurally unified...
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Shwedagon
This is the main entrance, from the side, which reveals the lush setting of...
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Shwedagon
What really animates Shwedagon, however, are the people and their almost...
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Shwedagon
The collection of unusual figures (even by Yangon standards) is one thing, ...
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Shwedagon
.. and here is one more of them ...
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Shwedagon Tiles
.. but the other thing are the many people who come here for a mixture of...
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Shwedagon
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Schwedagon
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Shwedagon
The source of the excitement remains unkown.
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Shwedagon
While his mother prayed, this boy excitedly kept pulling the pookah to...
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Rice fields
We left by train to Mandalay, a 15h or so train journey. Otuside Yangon, the...
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Countryside
This lone man is dwarfed by his land and its sky.
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Thazi
It was perhaps 4:30 a.m. when the train stopped in Thazi. This little vendor...
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Thazi
And Argentina lost. Now you know what date this was. These are the boy's...
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Countryside
Wooden plows are charming only as long as you don't have to employ them...
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Asia
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