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| City hall again, with Sule Paya on the left. |
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| The other view from the park |
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| More from around the park. |
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| I believe this is Yangon Region Court, but I'm not 100% |
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| I believe this is Yangon Region Court. |
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| Near or at the Strand Hotel, I cant remember, nice home for a bird! |
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| Sunset from outside the Strand Hotel. |
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| Port Authority Building. Check out the cool little ship shields above the columns. These are all the old, amazing colonial buildings from the Yangon waterfront(which is now facing a big road, seen in the sunset picture.) |
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| Lokanat Gallery Building. This is Italian style colonial and was constructed by a Jewish-Baghdadi Isaac A. Sofaer. |
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| The scene from inside the building. |
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| and more..... |
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| And one final picture from inside. The tiles were imported from Manchester. This is actually a really common looking building interior for downtown Yangon. |
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| Electricity in Myanmar is really spotty. There are power outages constantly. every building in Myanmar has a little power setup in the lobby where there are all kinds of machines, regulators, etc. This is one of the most antiquated ones I saw. |
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| The park with Sule Paya in the background. |
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| The bus stop outside Sule Paya. |
sule pay always enchanted me.
ReplyDeletei once met a thai artist named montein boonma who had slides of yangon and the pagodas.
do you think an old guy like me might find a home there in myanmar.
i'm falling in love with the world i've only know through rumor, art and literature.
be safe
big love
dad