Shwedagon Paya
May 24th 2006 Shwedagon Paya (pagoda) is the main landmark anywhere in Myanmar and so it should be considering it is covered with sixty tons of gold, which at today's prices is something over a billion dollars. Not bad for one of the poorest countries in the world.
I arrived at the Shwedagon Paya. I was pleasantly surprised to do so given the number of tricky left hand turns and resulting near misses; t
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