myanmaronthego – 1

Inspired by the amazing channel that is mumbaipaused, I had started my own Instagram account – myanmaronthego. It was quite simply this – Myanmar On The Go is a visual documentation of the country as seen from a taxi, bus or when on foot.

This is when I was in Yangon back in 2018/2019. I traveled around the city and other parts of Myanmar a fair bit and took a metric ton of photos with my phone. Some with my camera too, but the Instagram account was all phone photographs. 

The Instagram account has been inactive since late 2019 and now shut. I wanted to give those photographs a new home and also share some new/old work from Myanmar in future posts. 

Early 2020 was my last trip to Yangon (the last photo in the myanmaronthego series is from March of 2020). I remember chatting with the Air India duty manager while waiting to catch my flight back home. I saw one of the flight announcement boards behind her and asked her, “Hey. I thought there was some outbreak. I still see you have a flight landing from Wuhan in a couple of hours”. She says yes, but it’s nothing serious at the moment. We chatted a bit more and I left to catch my flight. 

Boy o’ boy. Who could have predicted what was to come. I was supposed to head back to Yangon on work somewhere around March 2020, if I remember correctly. But the pandemic and coup took care of any plans I, or anyone else, had. 

I’ve been meaning to make my way back there for a few years now. Beautiful country and amazing people. If I do go, there will be lots of bird watching and photography. Fingers crossed. For now, enjoy some glimpses from the past. 

Links to the other parts of this series – 

Part 2
Part 3