The Horizon Club Lounge at the Sule Shangri-La Hotel has a good elevated view of Yangon's famous landmark, the Shwedagon.
Yangon around and about: The Shwedagon viewed from the 21st floor of the Sule Shangri-La Hotel.
The Lounge also offers a view of the western approaches to Yangon Central railway station. Although the western end is noticeably quieter than the eastern end, I made notes about train movements covering a period of about an hour whilst I took a leisurely breakfast.
I'd arranged to meet Eddie Teh, Belmond's General Manager in Myanmar at their distinctive hotel in Yangon 'The Governor's Residence Hotel'. After wide-ranging discussions in the morning, I stayed for a light lunch before being driven back to the Sule Shangri-La Hotel, where I worked on my laptop computer for a time.
The Governor's Residence, Yangon: The manicured gardens viewed from the Garden Terrace.
In the late afternoon, I decided to walk to the station to have another period of train movement watching during the afternoon 'rush', taking photographs for later study. I carried on until it was too dark for even half-satisfactory pictures.
Yangon Central Station 3-Oct-2017: Recent acquisition, Chinese-built DF.2082 in platform 3, waiting to work an express train. On left, note second-hand Japanese DMU in platform 4.
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