The Time Warp That Is Yangon

The main pagoda in Yangon is arguably the most beautiful on Earth.
Yangon, with its five million friendly, smiling people is just coming out of a 30-year time warp. The ghost of the British empire is still very strong -- the city is dotted with old mansions that were once home to administrators and planters born in London, Manchester or Edinburgh, and the colonial blueprint on the design of hospitals, customs house and government offices is unmistakable.

Having watched China's tilt towards a market economy, and the economic disasters that North Korea encountered by sticking to isolation, Myanmar's socialist military rulers have now realised that it's not so clever to cut the country off from the rest of the world. Consequently, new hotels are being constructed, most with foreign capital and expertise, and a latent tourist infrastructure is slowly emerging.

Article covers some interesting things to see and do in Myanmar, including the Shwedagon Pagoda and Kandawgyl Lakes, and also provides some background history.

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