Naypyidaw
Empty Avenues
permit required
Portrait
Myanmar's government relocated from Yangon on 6 November 2005 at an hour chosen by astrologers, to a city that had been built in secret in the scrub — with a twenty-lane highway, a replica of the Shwedagon pagoda and separate zones for ministries, soldiers and hotels. It covers seven times the area of Singapore with a fraction of the people, and the empty avenues are the point rather than the flaw.
By permit Movement is monitored and several districts are closed to visitors.