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Sept 27, 2010 John Paskey

A Word of Caution...

We were stuck with around $2000.00 USD in unusable bills. Oh yeah, no ATM's and
the only place credit cards can be used is Yangon.
Foreign currency needs to be spotless, creaseless, and in "mint" condition.
Oh yes, and the local currency, Kyat, is almost always in worse shape
than the sign your looking at...

One more thing. Taking this picture is "illegal" and most probably warrants either
a nice fine (in new notes of course) and/or a bit of jail time.

Mandalay, Myanmar

Nikon D5000 ,Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX ,ISO 400
F/2.8, 1/500 sec., 35mm full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
C.Mirene19-Nov-2010 01:15
Wow. That's crazy...
lou_rozensteins17-Nov-2010 22:26
Amazing! Always interesting to see the other side of some of these places. The workers are the ones that get the worst of it here. Nice work!
Raymond17-Nov-2010 12:33
Geez ... Myanmar should be happy to have "any" foreign money they can get ! But I sure can understand the people at the "bottom" who have to bear the brunt. What a world ... !
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