曼妙细腻的光影，柔和淡雅的色彩，将内敛细腻进行表达和诠释，仿佛时间戛然而止，停留在美好的若梦境一般的时光之中。

Japanese bombing of the city in 1941 took both the British and the Burmese by surprise. The British retreated to India and the Japanese had control of the city by Spring 1942. The New Law Courts became HQ for the Japanese Imperial police and the Strand Hotel was used to stable the army’s cavalry. Yangon remained Burma’s capital when the country gained independence in 1948, and remained so until the military government relocated the seat of power to the new city of Nay Pyi Daw in 2006.

Today Yangon is a city much marked by its time as a colonial capital, most noticeably through the vast teak wood mansions hidden amongst shady side streets and broad leafy boulevards flanked by towering buildings in Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic styles. 

However, the charms of this city today is as much due to the creative and welcoming locals, with their jovial beer stations and the curious little shrines for the animistic spirit beings found in corners of foliage throughout the city. Though the British street plan remains, this is very much a Burmese city. As Norman Lewis wrote in his book Golden Earth: ‘through these European arteries now courses pure oriental blood.’ 

Like a small Bangkok free of neon lights and flocks of backpackers, like a more raucous and vibrant Vientiane, Yangon, Myanmar’s thriving treasure, is once again becoming the most alluring city in Southeast Asia.

Japanese bombing of the city in 1941 took both the British and the Burmese by surprise. The British retreated to India and the Japanese had control of the city by Spring 1942. The New Law Courts became HQ for the Japanese Imperial police and the Strand Hotel was used to stable the army’s cavalry. Yangon remained Burma’s capital when the country gained independence in 1948, and remained so until the military government relocated the seat of power to the new city of Nay Pyi Daw in 2006.

Today Yangon is a city much marked by its time as a colonial capital, most noticeably through the vast teak wood mansions hidden amongst shady side streets and broad leafy boulevards flanked by towering buildings in Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic styles. 

However, the charms of this city today is as much due to the creative and welcoming locals, with their jovial beer stations and the curious little shrines for the animistic spirit beings found in corners of foliage throughout the city. Though the British street plan remains, this is very much a Burmese city. As Norman Lewis wrote in his book Golden Earth: ‘through these European arteries now courses pure oriental blood.’ 

Like a small Bangkok free of neon lights and flocks of backpackers, like a more raucous and vibrant Vientiane, Yangon, Myanmar’s thriving treasure, is once again becoming the most alluring city in Southeast Asia.

Japanese bombing of the city in 1941 took both the British and the Burmese by surprise. The British retreated to India and the Japanese had control of the city by Spring 1942. The New Law Courts became HQ for the Japanese Imperial police and the Strand Hotel was used to stable the army’s cavalry. Yangon remained Burma’s capital when the country gained independence in 1948, and remained so until the military government relocated the seat of power to the new city of Nay Pyi Daw in 2006.

Today Yangon is a city much marked by its time as a colonial capital, most noticeably through the vast teak wood mansions hidden amongst shady side streets and broad leafy boulevards flanked by towering buildings in Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic styles. 

However, the charms of this city today is as much due to the creative and welcoming locals, with their jovial beer stations and the curious little shrines for the animistic spirit beings found in corners of foliage throughout the city. Though the British street plan remains, this is very much a Burmese city. As Norman Lewis wrote in his book Golden Earth: ‘through these European arteries now courses pure oriental blood.’ 

Like a small Bangkok free of neon lights and flocks of backpackers, like a more raucous and vibrant Vientiane, Yangon, Myanmar’s thriving treasure, is once again becoming the most alluring city in Southeast Asia.

Japanese bombing of the city in 1941 took both the British and the Burmese by surprise. The British retreated to India and the Japanese had control of the city by Spring 1942. The New Law Courts became HQ for the Japanese Imperial police and the Strand Hotel was used to stable the army’s cavalry. Yangon remained Burma’s capital when the country gained independence in 1948, and remained so until the military government relocated the seat of power to the new city of Nay Pyi Daw in 2006.

Today Yangon is a city much marked by its time as a colonial capital, most noticeably through the vast teak wood mansions hidden amongst shady side streets and broad leafy boulevards flanked by towering buildings in Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic styles. 

However, the charms of this city today is as much due to the creative and welcoming locals, with their jovial beer stations and the curious little shrines for the animistic spirit beings found in corners of foliage throughout the city. Though the British street plan remains, this is very much a Burmese city. As Norman Lewis wrote in his book Golden Earth: ‘through these European arteries now courses pure oriental blood.’ 

Like a small Bangkok free of neon lights and flocks of backpackers, like a more raucous and vibrant Vientiane, Yangon, Myanmar’s thriving treasure, is once again becoming the most alluring city in Southeast Asia.

Japanese bombing of the city in 1941 took both the British and the Burmese by surprise. The British retreated to India and the Japanese had control of the city by Spring 1942. The New Law Courts became HQ for the Japanese Imperial police and the Strand Hotel was used to stable the army’s cavalry. Yangon remained Burma’s capital when the country gained independence in 1948, and remained so until the military government relocated the seat of power to the new city of Nay Pyi Daw in 2006.

Today Yangon is a city much marked by its time as a colonial capital, most noticeably through the vast teak wood mansions hidden amongst shady side streets and broad leafy boulevards flanked by towering buildings in Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic styles. 

However, the charms of this city today is as much due to the creative and welcoming locals, with their jovial beer stations and the curious little shrines for the animistic spirit beings found in corners of foliage throughout the city. Though the British street plan remains, this is very much a Burmese city. As Norman Lewis wrote in his book Golden Earth: ‘through these European arteries now courses pure oriental blood.’ 

Like a small Bangkok free of neon lights and flocks of backpackers, like a more raucous and vibrant Vientiane, Yangon, Myanmar’s thriving treasure, is once again becoming the most alluring city in Southeast Asia.