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Astounding Shwedagon Pagoda at sunset  
   

Astounding Shwedagon Pagoda at sunset

Is This Really Yangon?!

February 13th 2017
Geo: 16.7837, 96.1568 What?! Rangoon is gone; not only in name as it is now called Yangon. We recognized nothing of the Rangoon of 1985 when we were last here. Even the Strand Hotel, where we ate a lobster after months of living on $15/day for all food, accommodation and transportation, was the same. Back then, the Burmese government allowed a one week only visa and all vi ... read more
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