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Yangon holidays

The latest travel news and comment on Yangon, capital of Myanmar

May 2017

  • Mohinga rice noodle and fish soup from Myanmar.

    The foodie traveller
    In search of Burmese fish noodle soup in Yangon

    Myanmar’s unofficial dish, mohinga, is going upmarket – and nowadays you don’t even have to get up early to find it

May 2016

  • Authors, poets, and cartoonists meet for a weekly discussion at the Khan tea-house on Merchant Street in downtown Yangon. Literary scholars have been gathering here every Tuesday and Friday mornings for the past 16 years to discuss and share their ideas and thoughts.
These people do not like to be considered a 'group' or to be taking part in an official 'meeting', because under the previous military regime in Myanmar such groups would have been considered subversive. 

On Thursday 31st March, Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD (National League for Democracy) party will officially take over power in Myanmar following their landslide victory over the ruling Union Solidarity and Development led by President Thein Sein.

Yangon
Myanmar

Photograph by David Levene
25/3/16

    Street life in Yangon: from roadside eateries to ear-cleaning stalls – in pictures

  • Pansodan Books

    Public Streets by Public Books
    A postcard from Yangon: Pansodan Road's famous second-hand book market

June 2011

  • Dhammayangyi Temple, Bagan, Burma

    Burma tour operators: who's offering what?

    A handful of companies cover Burma – and visitor numbers are increasing all the time since the tourism boycott was lifted, says Gemma Bowes

February 2010

  • Hidden treasure: a statue of Buddha

    Should tourists return to Burma?

    Ruled by the world's last military junta, Burma is shunned by both governments and tourists. Yet its people are crying out for contact. So what's the ethical traveller to do?

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