Pigeons @ Botataung

I saw a young handsome Burmese Baller (i.e. rich guy) literally buy-out all the corn that the vendors were selling, just so he could feed the bucket-load or so to the frenzied pigeons, before being driven away from his cycle-rickshaw chauffeur. Definitely ballin' Buddhist Burmese style. Oh, and yea, that's the Botataung Pagoda in the background.

Yangon (18-19 Jun 12)

June 18th 2012
And I'm back on the road! It was great being back in Singapore for a week, and definitely after much travelling one just appreciates even more the familiarity of home... It sure doesn't hurt either to be from Singapore, where it truly is very clean, and where things just...work! But the adventure continues, and I'm now in Yangon, Myanmar. What a difference six years make. I was ... read more

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Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886) and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth wa... ... read more

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