Day: April 17, 2012

  • The Golden City of Yangon

    Our first stop in Myanmar (which, by the way, was called Burma until the government changed the country’s name in 1989 when they replaced a slew of British colonial names) was Yangon (formerly called Rangoon, as in that ubiquitous crab appetizer that shows up on Chinese take out menus everywhere). We arrived in this hot sweaty…