Early in the morning, Badasang drove a large Hummer to pick up Huo Sining and the group to head to the public plate venue. The Sedona Hotel is not in the city center, so the route the business car took yesterday was on the outskirts of Yangon, merely passing by the sprawling Shwedagon Pagoda.
Huo Sining had not been as close to observe the exotic scenery of Yangon as she was today.
Yangon looks like a giant park; there is not much vegetation on the outskirts, but the city center is almost overflowing with plants, flowers, and pagodas. Many monks, with bare left shoulders wearing red kasayas, walked barefoot on the street, greeting people with clasped hands as they passed.
The buildings in Yangon also bear visible traces left from colonial times.
