Going to Myanmar is like time-travelling back 50 years or more. Men wear skirt-like longyi, women and kids blot thanaka (powdered bark make-up) on their faces to protect against the sun and insects and spat-out betel juice congeals into blood-like pools on sidewalks. All these these traditions are well maintained.
Yangon is Myanmar's biggest city and it is as modern as Myanmar gets. I also took the chance to visit the country's most famous Buddhist landmark - the gilded multimillennia-old Shwedagon Paya, 2500 years old! I was very lucky as it was the full moon night and for buddhists the lunar festival. Everybody tries to go to the temples. As a ritual they throw water to the holy banyan trees and donate flowers and foods to the buddhas. It was a fantastic experience even though there were thousands of people in the massive temple area. Take a look at the pictures, they speak for themselves.
Yangon is Myanmar's biggest city and it is as modern as Myanmar gets. I also took the chance to visit the country's most famous Buddhist landmark - the gilded multimillennia-old Shwedagon Paya, 2500 years old! I was very lucky as it was the full moon night and for buddhists the lunar festival. Everybody tries to go to the temples. As a ritual they throw water to the holy banyan trees and donate flowers and foods to the buddhas. It was a fantastic experience even though there were thousands of people in the massive temple area. Take a look at the pictures, they speak for themselves.
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