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Thayet Post Office  
   

Thayet Post Office

Being all timber, it's a wonder it hasn't burned down yet. Stamps were relatively very expensive at 500 kyat each. 1,000 kyat (pronounced 'chat') is about 1 USD.
Upstream to Thayet

March 11th 2015
Geo: 19.329, 95.1817Coffee and pastries at 6am for the early risers. Breakfast from 7-9am, and we leave for our shore excursion at 9:30, all very civilised!Thayet was an administrative centre under the British. We had a very quaint horse and buggy/cart tour of the markets, the colonial golf club (1887) and the colonial post office. Good fun, and our buggy driver was very talkative and keen ... read more
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