Myanmar (Burma) is a southeast Asian country of over 50,000,000 people. Like a lot of southeast Asia, sustenance agriculture is by far the staple of life.
Unique to Myanmar is it's very serious military rule. Different but similar to North Korea, Myanmar chooses to trust no outsiders. None. Just like any of us, Myanmar wishes to avoid affairs they do not understand or may lead to a more unpredictable future. Instead of reaching out to the world to learn, the military government remains quite insular. In one manner or another, every business has a military based business partner. Ranking military are paid modestly and it is expected that one advances himself by doing business deals to, 'advance the country'.
Last week I spent several days in the Myanmar capital, Yangon. The purpose of my visit was to explore the city and get a feel for the people in this very tightly managed country. Also, being Myanmar is a country difficult to explore, at will, I wanted to establish relationships to help me with future trips to more fully explore this very mysterious country.
Here is a small video including some of my experiences in and around Yangon, Myanmar.
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