Elephant museum opens in Myanmar’s Yangon
Elephant museum opens in Myanmar’s Yangon Myanmar’s first elephant museum has been opened in Yangon to mark the World Wildlife Day. Aiming to raise people’s awareness on the [...]
Myanmar to burn seized wildlife parts at Yangon Zoo
Myanmar to burn seized wildlife parts at Yangon Zoo The government will burn elephant tusks and other wildlife parts worth US$1.1 million (K1.66 billion) that were seized over the past year, a [...]
Thousands chase the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ book sale in Yangon
Thousands chase the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ book sale in Yangon Lovers of all kinds of books in English in Myanmar can finally break their piggy-banks and spend it like Beckham, but on books of course. [...]
Motorbikes are oddly absent from Myanmar’s biggest city
Motorbikes are oddly absent from Myanmar’s biggest city In most other cities in South-East Asia motorbikes are ubiquitous. Rising incomes have made them attainable. Shoddy public-transport [...]
Yangon’s beautiful bodies of water
Yangon’s beautiful bodies of water Yangon is home to two beautiful gardens surrounding man-made lakes – Kandawgyi Lake and the Inya Lake – that provide a welcome respite to the hustle and bustle [...]
Pegu Club: An eerie abandoned gentlemen’s club
Pegu Club: An eerie abandoned gentlemen’s club This deteriorating Victorian-style clubhouse was built in 1882 just outside of what was then Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar). It was [...]
Yangon Buddhist temple: a nirvana for snakes
Yangon Buddhist temple: a nirvana for snakes Crossing a bridge to the middle of a lake in Myanmar’s Yangon region, pilgrims arrive at a temple to pin their hopes on the pythons slinking [...]
A Must Place to visit: Taukkyan War Cemetery
A Must Place to visit: Taukkyan War Cemetery About an hour or so’s drive from central Rangoon, this cemetery appears suddenly, and is seemingly in the middle of nowhere, surrounded only by a few [...]
Yangon Zoo’s Carnivora House gets ‘Blue Plaque’
Yangon Zoo’s Carnivora House gets ‘Blue Plaque’ The Carnivora House in Yangon Zoological Gardens compound was officially proclaimed a heritage building and was installed with a commemorative Blue [...]
