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Myanmar’s former capital, Yangon, boasts one of the most spectacular early-20th century urban landscapes in Asia.
A century ago the country’s former capital was one of the world's great trading cities and the legacy of that cosmopolitan past remains today.
Saved from the fate of other Asian cities due to the country's isolation under military rule, Yangon’s downtown area is a unique blend of cultural and imperial architecture, considered to be the last surviving colonial core in Asia.
But as the country opens up, this unique heritage is under threat. Decades of neglect have left once grand buildings a crumbling mess and they are at grave risk of being demolished in favour of hastily built towers and condominiums.
Some of the damage has already been done as developers race to cash in on the country’s rapid pace of change.
Myanmar historian and scholar, Thant Myint U, is leading the charge to preserve Yangon’s heritage and return many buildings to their former glory.
He has founded the Yangon Heritage Trust, a group pushing for a cohesive urban plan for the city. The stories of the buildings and the people who lived - and still live in them today, are truly unique in the world.
101 East was granted rare access inside the famous Secretariat building, the site of Myanmar's independence ceremony in 1948 and the assassination of national hero, General Aung San, the father of pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi.
This immense building, which housed the parliament from 1948-1962 has been closed to the public behind razor wire for more than half a century and few have ever seen inside it. Its greatest challenge may yet be surviving the modern era as Yangon embarks on its dramatic transition into a modern Asian city.
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Road to Burma
This video follows the journey made by my partner and I to Burma in 2010 from Yangon to Mandalay. We took a variety of trains and buses to get to our destinations. The video only shows our train travel. Along the way, we visit: Yangon, Kalaw, Inle Lake, Mandalay and Bagan. (travelman56@me.com)
The second leg of our journey begins in Kalaw and ends at Inle Lake. We wanted to hike the trail down to the lake, but I was a little concerned about my partner's health at that point. Needless to say, our time was nothing short of magical there. I really loved watching the fisherman on the boats manipulate the oar with one leg while casting the nets with their free hands. This is done nowhere else in the world!
The third part of my Journey to Burma begins in Mandalay where we do a river journey to the ancient site of Bagan and its many hundreds of temples. From there we eventually returned to Yangon and the Shwedagon Pagoda, where we end the day watching thousands of bats (thanks to a friendly monk) stream out of the stupas from the less touristed side.
Myanmar (Burma) Circular train Yangon 2008
This video was made in the circular train in Yangon (2008), a ride of 3 hours. Originally designed during the British time, the tracks are today in a very bad condition. It's is a very nice experience to discover a multitude facets of the Burmese culture.
1 Nov Yangon 1ª parte Ultimo día por Yangón
Pues eso, un breve resumen de lo que voy a hacer los próximos días y las próximas horas, sin ser consciente de como iba a acabar el día en Yangón, fue brutal, pero bueno, no voy a hacer spolier. Aparte os cuento un par de curiosidades sobre el USDP y un asesinato por parte de los militares en la revolución azafrán... Compartid y suscribiros al canal, canallas!!!
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A Day In Yangon, Myanmar
Experience a day in the bustling city of Yangon in Myanmar
Myanmar and Burma Tour with Alexander+Roberts
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Witness waterfront scenes of village life on a sunset cruise on the Irrawaddy. Journey by pony cart across the golden temple-studded plain of Bagan and ascend an ancient pagoda for a magnificent sunset over this remarkable landscape. Enjoy an unhurried stay on Inle Lake, set on a mountain-ringed plateau... Mingle with tribal villagers, dine with a local family and explore its villages and temples.
Burma 2015
This is my recent trip to Burma! First off is my time in the capital Yangon, followed by a trek to Inle Lake from Kalaw and finally a day in the Temples of Bagan.
Open Road to Burma | Full Documentary | TRACKS
Also known as Myanmar. Guided by the insights of a Buddhist monk, we explore the lives of the Burmese intertwined with the reconstruction of the road and the environmental effects it will have on one of Southeast Asia's last remaining wildernesses.
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Rangoon, Burma in 1930. Film 6440
Rangoon in 1930. Amateur home movie. Various shots of the areas around Rangoon, Burma, Asia. Yangon, Myanmar
Scenes at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda on Water Festival morning. People waiting. Shot of top of Pagoda above the trees. Buddhist monk with parked cars in background. Indian children posing for camera. Kokine Lakes in Burma. Four European adults standing and posing for the camera. Woman is offered cigarette which she accepts. They look wealthy and happy. Woman swimming. Men and women walk towards camera dressed in swimwear of the 1930s. En route to Hwawbi Bazaar. A busy market / bazaar. Children putting baskets on their heads. Man smoking, looking at camera while carrying things on a stick over his shoulder. Lots of children standing in a line. Indian woman smoking an enormous cigarette while sitting on the floor. Europeans eating sandwiches while standing next to car. Burmese man with bow. Males of a Burmese family standing in height order. Girls preparing food around a bowl. Band playing drums while a man dances in a traditional way before them. Young women, medium close-up of man's face (damaged). Musicians performing again and the man is still dancing. Mrs Stockland edges into shot. Washing drying on a line. Shiny British car in Burmese village. English man and woman talk. Kemmendine: elephant attempting to pull an enormous teak log to which it is attached by chains. The man riding it kicks and hits it in order to get it to do the things required of it. Man in pith helmets and white suits walk towards the camera. Woman in white dress. Enormous amount of baggage on carts being taken away from hotel. SS Leicestershire moored in harbour. Sampan being rowed by native male as European man sits under umbrella. Europeans on the SS Leicestershire (shot from on board the ship.) Shots of Colombo, Ceylon harbour: large ships with masts. Street scenes of Colombo: cars, bicycles, a ladder being pushed along road, a large wagon crossing road, a tram with people boarding. A policeman directing traffic.
Burma OAT Trip
12 minute movie covering 3 week trip to Laos and Myanmar. Family and friends we hope this New Year finds you happy and well. Hope you enjoy this video.
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India Matters: Road to Rangoon
India Matters: Road to Rangoon
Building the Burma Road
The Burma Road (Chinese: 滇缅公路) is a road linking Burma (also called Myanmar) with the southwest of China. Its terminals are Kunming, Yunnan, and Lashio, Burma. When it was built, Burma was a British colony
The road is 717 miles (1,154 km) long and runs through rough mountain country.[1] The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built by 200,000 Burmese and Chinese laborers during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed by 1938.[2] It had a role in World War II, when the British used the Burma Road to transport materiel to China before Japan was at war with the British. Supplies would be landed at Rangoon (now Yangon) and moved by rail to Lashio, where the road started in Burma. In 1940 the British government yielded to Japanese diplomatic pressure to close down the Burma Road to supplies to China for a period of three months. After the Japanese overran Burma in 1942, the Allies were forced to supply Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist Chinese by air. They flew these supplies from airfields in Assam, India, over the hump, the eastern end of the Himalaya uplift. At the insistence of the United States, and much to the chagrin of Winston Churchill, the wartime leader of Britain, British forces were given, as their primary goal in the war against Japan, the task of recapturing Burma and reopening land communication with China. Under British command Indian, British, Chinese, and American forces, the latter led by Vinegar Joe Stilwell, defeated a Japanese attempt to capture Assam and recaptured northern Burma. In this area they built a new road, the Ledo Road which ran from Ledo Assam, through Myitkyina and connected to the old Burma Road at Wandingzhen, Yunnan, China. The first trucks reached the Chinese frontier by this route on January 28, 1945.
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Our trip to Myanmar!
Myanmar Road to Freedom -Yangon,Myanmar Night Street Busker
Journey Log Yangon,Myanmar May 2012.
On the eve of Road to Freedom
ミャンマーの旅 - まとめ My trip memory in Burma
旅は基本的に1人たび。
なるべく現地の言葉で話し、現地のものを食べる。
旅先で出会った人は目的地でお別れ。
また、地球のどこかで会えたらいいね。
Gearing Up for the Trip to Myanmar (Burma)...Two Days and Counting
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As an expat living in Thailand since 1996, Scott Mallon has worked as a photojournalist for the past twelve years, been inside both Bang Kwang and Klong Prem Prisons (as a journalist), lost months at a time partying the days and nights away, been hospitalized several times, been near death once, fought in Muay Thai, managed a world-rated championship boxer, trained professional boxers, been thrown in jail, and fathered two children. Somehow, through it all, he's managed to remain married to the same Thai woman.
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