The
next stop was the capital…. well… if you can call Nay Pyi Taw as such or even a
city. People in Myanmar saw their capital relocated from coastal (and therefore
more vulnerable?) Yangon to an inland green field called Nay Pyi Taw in
November 2005. In 2009, the city was said to be the third largest in Myanmar
with a population of 900 000. Well, these facts seemed strange to us. From our
point of view, Nay Pyi Taw is a huge field with a lot of large roads (going
from nowhere to nowhere), hotels, a zoo, a gem museum …. and of course a Pagoda
(copy of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon). Apart from this, there is literally
nothing: almost no cars, no motorbikes,
no street stalls and simply no people.
To
us it appeared like a ghost city (still under construction) out of nothing –
somewhere on a map. The merely one million citizens seem to hide quite well,
because we didn’t see many.
As
you see from the pictures below, in comparison Luxembourg-City is a crowded
capital full of life. :-)
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