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Land of the Golden Temples

"Every marble slab, a page of the Tripitaka, is housed in its own little zedi."

Picture by Otto de Voogd

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Travel story: Land of the Golden Temples

After Cambodia we traveled to Myanmar via Bangkok. Myanmar is an isolated country, ranking 154th on the list of countries surveyed in the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom 2005, beating only North Korea. Political freedoms are certainly not much better either.

Although Myanmar is now the official name of the country, the name change from Burma to Myanmar was imposed by the current unelected military government and hence has not been fully accepted, at least... More

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