Downtown Yangon is designed in a grid with 5 long main roads intersected with about 57 shorter streets.
Bo Yar Nyunt Street is home.
Today my morning camera walk was to 18th Street, about 20mins from home. That's if I walk directly without stopping to make the most of photo opportunities.
These teen numbered streets are part of Chinatown.
This is a bustling street with much of it set up as a fresh produce market. Items mostly sold from stalls at foot level. The buildings are a hotch potch of ages from the 1920s, 1960s and some new construction today.
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| Young monk on his alms round |
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| Apartments galore |
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| Chicken anyone? |
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| More fish? |
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| Or, perhaps fish? |
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| The purple and white vegetables are varieties of eggplant. |
The man in the check shirt delivers large blocks of ice, by hand. From where, I don't know. But it's very drippy when he drops it into the ceramic pot. The vendor then uses a very large pestle to pound and crush the ice so it can be added to drinks.
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| The gas bottle delivery guy |
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| Some new friends that giggled their way alongside me. |
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| New construction squeezed in between some much older buildings. |
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| Believe it or not, a school. |
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| Trishaw and washing line above. |
Kheng Hock Temple
Dedicated to the sea goddess, Mazu. Built in 1903, replacing a wooden temple erected in 1861.
