{"id":8259,"date":"2004-05-27T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T02:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:45:21","slug":"welcome-to-myanmar-with-a-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2004\/05\/27\/welcome-to-myanmar-with-a-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Myanmar (with a passport)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Made it out of the Hong Kong airport after convincing the airline attendants we had a visa waiting for us (that took an hour and a half) and left us fearful of what we&#8217;d find here.\u00a0 Fortunately, when we got to Myanmar, the visa was indeed waiting, and we&#8217;re in the country.\u00a0 It&#8217;s raining and evening, but the ride in revealed some interestingly colorful pagodas; the B<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9274 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2004\/05\/burma-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>uddhism here is very different than the Chinese\/East Asian style.<\/p>\n<p>David Hoyt&#8211;you may remember that we saw a Burmese pagoda in Penang 7 years ago.\u00a0 That was my first incling that it might be interesting to come here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made it out of the Hong Kong airport after convincing the airline attendants we had a visa waiting for us (that took an hour and a half) and left us fearful of what we&#8217;d find here.\u00a0 Fortunately, when we got to Myanmar, the visa was indeed waiting, and we&#8217;re in the country.\u00a0 It&#8217;s raining and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2004\/05\/27\/welcome-to-myanmar-with-a-passport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to Myanmar (with a passport)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burmese-days-with-jr-in-2004"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}