Around Yangon 1995 Paris Saigon Photos

Pressing sugar cane.

At the Shwedagon Pagoda.

Facilities were simple, but the smiles were abundant.

A section of the Shwedagon Pagoda, the highlight, at least for me, of Yangon.

Drink? It's filtered!

As with the rest of South East Asia, the streetside food in Myanmar provided some of the most memorable culinary experiences.

Typical central Yangon street. Lived and worked in the apartment with the yellow balcony.

Burmese style sweet and sour snacks.

Condom vendor.

Demolition by sledge hammer.

So much beautiful architecture was showing signs of neglect.

Aung San Su Kyi, "The Lady", speaking from the gate of her University Drive home. She did this every weekend for a while in 1995 and thousands came to hear her. Unfortunately the military intelligence service were also present.

I often ate at a restaurant down the road from where I lived, and became quite friendly with the family that ran it...

My Burmese teacher and her grandson.

...and was invited to a special family dinner.

Got to know some of the students studying English at my Burmese teacher's school.

It really was very good beer.

The combination of women and shopping appears universal.

I had to leave Myanmar. It was hard to say goodbye.

Water Festival April 1995