Daily Photo (Feature): Shwedagon Pagoda: The Most Astonishing Place I’d Barely Heard Of

Thanks to the computer game Civilization 4 and a short video narrated by Leonard Nimoy, I had a vague idea of the existence of the Shwedagon Pagoda before I took off my shoes and socks at its entrance and handed them over for safe keeping.

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Daily Photo (Feature): Charmed By Yangon, Myanmar

Yangon was our introduction to Myanmar. Though it is a decent sized city of over four million and until recently Myanmar’s capital city - until the government relocated elsewhere, much to the populace’s joy - our drive through its darkening streets from the airport to our accommodation told us the city was going to be very different to the in-your-faceness of Bangkok.

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