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Myanmar🇲🇲Just arrived, but where did the capital go?

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Johan Kruseman


I seem to have found here an unprotected access to internet so let’s connect to the world for a small travel update from Myanmar. Started in Yangon of which i thought it was the capital, only to find out that the government had decided a few years ago to promote some arbitrarily small town in the middle of nowhere to be the new capital (Nay Pyi Taw for the wannabe smartasses at their next game of Trivial Pursuit).

Traveled route: Yangon, Inle Lake, Lashio, Mandalay, Monywa, Bagan
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