Kandawgyi is a difficult lake to walk around. There are parts you have to pay to enter (more if you want to also take photos), parts where you have to exit the lake grounds and walk on the street, and parts that make no sense and link up with nowhere. But it was still an enjoyable walk.
Hotel Esperado experienced a marked uptick in bookings once the D fell off their sign.
Also, bonus joke about the Goya room being full of dead Spaniards.
It’s unclear whether this is a day for people who love G-Shock, that just happens to be on Valentine’s Day, or if G-Shock have rebranded Valentine’s Day to “Lover Day”.Close-up duck boat.I think this is a nat shrine. For more information on nats.Shangri La from across the lake. We’re in the righthand tower on the 14th floor. Which is maybe four floors from the top.Surprise duck boat.He knows when you are sleeping.What would Kentucky know about frying chicken?I don’t think this is a whacky Alice in Wonderland themed pub, but who really knows?The lake water really is this green.
Pictures with animal.Someone likes the Flatrion Building.These orange bins are everywhere. They add a splash of colour to an otherwise incredibly colourful city.You know the old saying “you can’t jusde a motel by its terrible, falling down sign”? No, me neither.Fence.I’m pretty sure this is where one leaves their eyes for safekeeping.I’m impressed that they decided to cover up only the first word of this graffiti.The sure sign of hashers.1000Every time I walk past an LPG bottle here I realise that I’m probably going to die in a firey explosion.There’s a famous photographer of the 1930s/40s who took semi-abstract photographs of industrial machinery. And I can’t for the life of me remember their name. All of my lecturers are pretty disappointed in me right now.Pretty flowers.Yes, those piles of leaves do mean that people are sweeping the grass. Yangon – where cheap labour is really cheap.James Cook Memorial Fountain eat your heart out.Remember fitness tracks? Yangon remembers fitness tracks.Multiple hose repairs, because hoses don’t grow on tress.Esther is pretty excited about the orchid-growing potential here.There are the remains of a much more interesting pavement scattered around the lake.I can’t wait until the wet season when this is covered by a foot of water and I fall in and break my ankle.All roads lead to Shwedagon.This is the standard of repair of the boardwalk.Also this.Ribit.Water towers are some of my favourite architecture.These flowers grow a lot of places. They are lovely.
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I’m with Esther on the excitement over orchid growing potential! Thanks for all the wonderful photos.
I’m with Esther on the excitement over orchid growing potential! Thanks for all the wonderful photos.
So “duck boats” are a thing in Yangon?