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Rangoon and Temple

from a visit in January, 1999

The Myanmar government posts these billboards -- in English, mind you -- prominently around Myanmar.

A temple lies at a major crossroads in downtown Rangoon.

Looking down on central Rangoon.

Apartments in downtown Rangoon.

A colonial building in Rangoon.

Myanmar is full of these bell shaped temples, but most of the ones we saw were covered with bamboo matting, having their gold leaf restored. The gold turns black in a few years and needs to be redone.

At the gates of a large reclining buddha in Myanmar.

I was ready to call this buddha gold, but our guide assured me it was brass.

A porter carries tourists' bags up to Golden Rock.

Women pray at the Golden Rock -- Kyaikto -- in Myanmar.

A monk pours water over a buddha at the Golden Rock.

The holiest spot on Kyaikto, where men only may pray and affix tiny pages of gold to the already gilt rock.