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Myanmar (Burma): Muslims, Jews and Nazi “fashion”

On By Justin CalderonIn Myanmar, Off the Beaten Track, Southeast Asia, Travel5 Comments

Every once in a while I decide to expand on some of the more telling anecdotes born out of my travels. This happens to be one of those times. --- The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue sits on a lively corner in downtown Yangon that opens up onto an alley where merchants tinker with a miscellany of metals …

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Myanmar’s détente makes travel easier

On By Justin CalderonIn Myanmar, Off the Beaten Track, Southeast Asia, Travel, Wonton's Writings4 Comments

Poorly pasted together and full of pixelated photographs, my Myanmar Lonely Planet has been following me forlornly ever since I picked it up some four years ago from a child book hawker in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Besides my China LP (covered in brown paper to hide its entry from Chinese customs), it stood alone on …

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