Thursday, May 24, 2012

Night Market in the new capital of Burma


Bangkok

Once we had been there for a few days, we decided that we ought to check out Burma. We went to their embassy, but it was clear that they weren't *overjoyed about Americans visiting there, (my friend had an official passport) and they did their best to do everything as slowly as possible. So, we just left and enjoyed Bangkok some more. We had understood that there was one good English hotel in Rangoon where all that they had was gin and no girls, but we wanted to visit anyway.

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This is the new capital of Myanmar, which was built from scratch in an open field. The government and the elite of the country all moved here. The city is very different from the rest of Burma . Instead, houses are palaces, and the roads are wide and deserted, as in North Korea . The only thing that looks like the capital to the rest of the country - a market ...

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