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Yangoon from above showing an old colonial building.
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Henrik walking the streets for Yangon.
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ARAK Dubai apparently have som kind of weird love for the late Osama Bin Laden
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Yangon street vendors selling various food. Yangon is a busteling city, and most of the citys shopping can be done at street level. The city turns into a ghost town at 21.00 every night, when shops and restaurants close.
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A street vendor in Yangon downtown.
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The Areca nut is widely used as a mild stimulant in South East Asia. The nut is packed in a Betle leaf, and mixed with lime. Chewing the nut results in the characteristic red teeth that can be seen among the people using it on a dailey basis.
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Telephone boots in Myanmar is pretty basic. A booth. A operator. Phones.
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Yangon Taxi. Transport is pretty expensive in Myanmar due to the heavy governmental taxes on fuel.
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Remote controls
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Young boys playing football at a open field in front of a church in central Yangon.
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Bamboo scaffolding on an old church in central Yangon.
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Bicycle in central Yangon. A bicycle can be the best way of transporting yourself around the traffic mess in downtown Yangon.
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Yandon domestic ariport. The Go-To-Gate signs for all flights are acctually people walking around the departure hall making sure everybody gets on the right flights.
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Myanmar has several domestic airliners. Flying from Yangon to Bagan, we got to fly with Yangon Airways. Interessting.
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Yangon street life. Pretty much every aspect of life plays out in various ways on the sidewalks.
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The Strand is a Victorian-style hotel located in Yangon, Myanmar. The hotel is built in 1896, and is still very expensive. The cheapest room we found was 400 USD for a night. Needless to say. We opted for a hostel instead.
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Enjoying life at The Strand Hotel in Yangon.
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Henrik is also enjoying The Strand, reading a one week old edition of Dagbladet.
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Yangon buildings range from beautiful victorian style colonial houses to concret dumps like this one.
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Boys playing "Sepak takraw" in the streets of Yangon. The game can best be described as a sort of volleyball played with your feet. The ball is made made out of a bamboo like palm called Rattan.
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Girls at a local Yangon bus. The girls are dressed in pink nun costumes
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Girl making a phone calls in one of Yangons many telephone boots.
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The Shwedagon Pagoda in central Yangon.
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Public TVs can be found all over Yangon, often showing two different TV-shows simultaneously.
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Yangon has a open sewer system, making it a paradise for rats.
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The Hotel we stayed at in Yangon had a pretty interesting pipe system for the shower. Beats me.
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Yangon pharmacy.
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Young boy collecting garbage in the streets of Yangon.
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A Yangon telephone boot up close.
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A Yangon street vendor wearing the traditional Thanaka make up. The Thanaka is used both as a protection for the sun, and for estethic reasons.
