Yangon - is a city which has a lot of similarity with Kuala Lumpur, there's a lot of cars and flood after heavy rains; how familiar those sight are to us Malaysian!
On currency, USD is widely used in Myanmar, it is even better to use USD rather than the local currency Kyat (pronounce as 'chat'). For example you will be expected to pay USD10/Kyat10,000 whereby exchange rate is at approximately USD1=Kyat971. Just do your own mathematics and you will realize there is a slight differences. It is definitely worth consideting if you are on a long trip and on very tight budget.
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| Flood scene in Yongon and KL |
The other thing we find it so familiar here is food, we stayed in a hostel near china town and there's this long stretch of night market that sells everything. We like the food here, it is simple yet tasty!
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| Seller here would carry their crops in those basket in their shoulder then sell them in the market |
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| The variety of crops, the colour make one happy, don't you agree! |
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| sweets and savory stuff |
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| We ate here twice, cos it is the only stall that at least have got a chinese menu, we have been ordering the food using picture taken either on our phone or camera |
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| Hot noodles always good for raining season |
Now, the two significant things that represent the Burmese people has got to be their longyi (wide cloth wrap around) and thanaka (yellowish comestic paste from ground bark). Men and women wear longyi all the time, whether at home or at work as official attire. Women would wear thanaka all the time, cos thanaka is their traditional version of anti wringkles that they paste all over their face, sometimes body too.
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| This is what I meant, Burmese wear longyi all the time, even when cycling, trust me, it won't be easy to cycle with that costume |
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