The following were taken during my three weeks roaming across Burma last month. Click here to see my set of photos from Naypyidaw, the Burmese junta’s remote new capital city.
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- Colonial-era apartments in central Rangoon
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- Pulp fiction for sale in the streets of Rangoon, a heaven for the dedicated book collector
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- Rangoon’s hallowed Shwedagon pagoda, as dusk falls over the city
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- A colonial-era building in Mandalay
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- Propaganda sign along the moat of the former Royal Palace, Mandalay
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- A clutch of Buddha statuettes at a small pagoda in Mandalay
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- Souvenir sellers at a nineteenth century monastery in Mandalay
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- The central market in Lashio, Shan State
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- Novice Buddhist monks leave a pagoda in Hsipaw, Shan State
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- Ceramic pots holding fresh drinking water at a pagoda in Hsipaw
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- A cheroot-smoking Buddhist monk watches the scenery roll by on the train between Hsipaw and Pyin U Lwin
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- The train station at Gokteik, en route from Hsipaw to Pyin U Lwin
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- A serene spot: the botanic gardens in Pyin U Lwin (formerly Maymyo)
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- The Chinese temple in Pyin U Lwin
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- Swastika pattern on the floor of a temple in Mandalay. Note clockwise orientation and Hitlerian colour scheme
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- Tiny statuettes at a Buddhist pagoda in Mandalay
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- Ubiquitous Burmese tea shop, Mandalay
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- A Buddha sits serenely in the guano-strewn interior of a small temple in Bagan
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- Crystal-tipped “hti” topping a temple in Bagan
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- The flowing longyi of a souvenir seller stalking visitors to the vast temple plain at Bagan
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- One of hundreds of Buddhist temples in Bagan
