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Mawlaymine

MY MONTH IN BURMA, PART V: GO SOUTH YOUNG MAN!

PART V:  GO SOUTH YOUNG MAN!   with apologies to Horace Greeley Leaving the tourist trail– Mawlamyine Bound–  Dateline: 1/23/13–Yangon, Myanmar I have been in Yangon three days now.  It seems longer mainly because I have mostly run out of things to do. It is taking me all this time to get my bearings in Myanmar […]

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Shwedagon Paya

Night Falls on Shwedagon Paya

Shwedagon Paya, sometimes referred to in English as the Golden Pagoda, is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese with relics of the past four Buddhas enshrined within.  Buddhists from all of Myanmar, and for that matter the world, make pilgramage there.  The central pagoda, at 99  meters (325 feet) dominates the skyline of Yangon (formerly Rangoon), in […]

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