Tachileik, Burma (Myanmar) - Entrance to Shwedagon Paya Branch Campus

This is Tachileik, a town in Burma (Myanmar's) Shan State as seen from the back of a tuk-tuk. The shows my trip up a hill into the grounds of Tachikeik's Shwedagon Paya. The Shwedagon Paya is a world famous Buddhist religious structure in Yangon, (Rangoon)which was Burma's capital city until a few years ago. This particular structure in Tachileik is presumably greatly inferior, (although I've never seen the main one so I wouldn't know) although it has the same name. For lack of a better term

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