Random weekend part 1

Last weekend we enjoyed some random activities. We have perhaps mostly exhausted Yangon’s tourist attractions at this point.

First up was the planetarium. It is located directly outside our hotel so we had to go. It was built about 20 years ago with money from Japan and I suspect has not been changed much in that time. It was in beautiful condition, preserved in all its ‘80s wonder. It was not an automated show, and because Ant and I were the only people there they decided to do the “English” version. Although apparently the compare was speaking in English it was fairly impossible to understand anything he said apart from the repeated use of “on our way home” which he said about 20 times as we navigated from deep space back “on our way home” to Yangon… passing dinosaurs (I have no idea why dinosaurs would be in a planetarium) “on our way home”… whilst listening to ABBA “on our way home”…   

  

After that we headed off to the love park in front of Shwedagon… which was full of all things love.

 

In Myanmar you can easily spot happy couples when out and about because they are normally sitting on the floor under a discretely positioned umbrella. Being the love park there were a lot of umbrellas. My favourite was the couple crammed under an umbrella in the jaws of a giant concrete crocodile. See far right hand photo where you can just about make out the umbrella under the crocodiles teeth.

    

After all that love (and wilting temperatures outside) we had to go to J’s doughnuts and enjoy the AC, drink strawberry milk and eat doughnuts. Ant’s had a banana filling, and mine was of course orange.