Anawrahta Road in Yangon

This is one of the main roads crossing Yangon from east to west.

The British made a grid layout when they rebuilt the city during colonial times. This was one of their best actions they ever have done in the country because otherwise it probably would look like chaotic Bangkok where nothing has ever being planned.

A walk through the street could be the best to somehow understand the city since everything relevant to Yangon (Rangoon) is reflected here. That means the organisation of the town which is just the medieval way they had in Europe and still today in India and similar. Where the book printers are clusters around 3x Street. The small clinics and pharmacies right before. 

Flower shops in between, shoe repair and opticians around 38 Street and City Hall plus Mahabandoola Park open up the whole around 100 meters north of the Yangon River banks where the ferries leave to cross the wide waterway and the Pazungtaung Creek is to the east.    

This is the center of the city and great Buddhist shrines are around here such as the Sule and Botataung Pagoda. A bit to west General Electric installed in 2013 a big electricity generation power unit which brought the long missing spark to the city.

Many street markets along one of the most attractive is the "flower market".

  A avalanche of stinky buses and cars moves through.

Here is the real city beat by any means with hundreds of stores one after the other, but only a few restaurants. The boardwalk is is full with fast food vendors who usually sell all kind of skewer, there are open air fruit and flower stalls and a plenty of cheap Chinese stuff including clothes, shoes and household items is sold over the counter. 

This is somehow a horizontal mall over several kilometers. When the sub disappears fishes and other seafood is just presented just on the street piled up on large plates.

All this food stuff is laid out without any ice, which is quite dangerous considering the immense tropical heat.

Day and night street market