Say goodbye to Yangon!

City hall again, with Sule Paya on the left.



The other view from the park

More from around the park.

I believe this is Yangon Region Court, but I'm not 100%

I believe this is Yangon Region Court.

Near or at the Strand Hotel, I cant remember, nice home for a bird!

Sunset from outside the Strand Hotel.

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.)

Lokanat Gallery Building. This is Italian style colonial and was constructed by a Jewish-Baghdadi Isaac A. Sofaer.

The scene from inside the building.

and more.....

And one final picture from inside. The tiles were imported from Manchester. This is actually a really common looking building interior for downtown Yangon.

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.

The park with Sule Paya in the background.

The bus stop outside Sule Paya.

More from Yangon

a random alley in downtown Yangon

reminds me of our two rivers in Chongqing.

The scene outside of the train station

The train station in downtown Yangon.

Inside the train station. Judging by the guys with the guns, we're guessing the guys sitting on the floor are prisoners, but who really knows?

Municipal Corporation of Rangoon, very old!

Independence Monument in downtown Yangon. It's a beautiful park right in the center of downtown.

Same park, looking at City Hall. Sule Paya is right next to it.

Street Eats of Yangon

We got our first lunch from this lady

This guy is carrying his portable food stand to somewhere.

Most people eat some kind of noodles or noodle soup for breakfast or lunch. We got lunch from this lady's stand outside of the train station. She had four or five different kinds of noodles to choose from(on the right.)

The big green thing is for crushing and juicing sugar cane. The sugar cane is cut and skinned and in the blue bucket on the right.

This is some kind of juice/dessert place that was on the corner of our block. It was quite the happening night spot.

Yangon at Night....

There is tons of street food in Yangon. There are rather few restaurants and eating on the street seems to be the most popular options for the urbanites as well as the lower class.

This is the dock where we found what seems to be the poorest workers returning home on small boats after a long days work. At about 8 or 9 at night this place is slammed with people crowding on to boats to go to the basically unlit other side of the river. who knows what it's like over there.

Our favorite street food stand. This guy makes two awesome dishes. One is fish tacos without the taco. It's exactly that, fried fish, cabbage, chili, some onion and lemon juice.... just no tortilla. The second is very similar but inside a doughy tofu pocket, kinda like the sushi rice pocket thing(not sure what that is called.)

People like getting funny pieces of meat on sticks. Watch out for tiny bites of pig ears!

The post office. The building on the left is the very famous Strand Hotel, where basically every colonial European stayed in the Burma days. This is just across the street from the waterfront and dock where all the boats come and go.

By the dock.

Ah, baseball.... wait, what? people like baseball in Myanmar(or India?), who knew?