Last night I arrived in Yangon with Air Asia.  Customs and immigration were easy as I already had a visa issued.  Apparently they are testing visa on arrival, but right now it is only avaliable if you fly in on the national airline, Myanmar Air International and they only have one scheduled flight from Kunming in China right now.

There is a mixture of old and new (or not quite as old) architecture in Yangon.  A lot of the buildings have great architecture but require a lot of maintenance.  Traffic is a serious problem both if you are in a taxi or if you are walking, as crossing the street requires some frogger like work!

Many streets are quite wide with many pagodas scattered throughout town.  The most famous one, and Yangon’s top attraction is Shwedagon pagoda.

Inside the stupa is said to contain 8 strands of Bhudda’s hair.  There is also a replica of a tooth from Bhudda inside as well.  The while thing is huge with many other images and statues of Bhudda throughout the grounds.

The weather is quite hot here, but it is the start of the wet season, so I did get a little rain this afternoon.  It was nice to break the humidity!