News from Myanmar - Lets see, What does a military junta do when the thrill of renaming Burma to Myanmar is gone and gets tired of old school Ragon/Yangon as the countries administrative capital. Well, first it's the name thing, so you pick a catchy new name, in this case -Naypyidaw - "Abode of the Kings".
Then from scratch, you build your new modern capital city so you will have drinkable water and electricity that stays on hours a day and best yet you build in a remote area where the land is like a blank canvas awaiting your creation. Also, it's inland, not on the coast like Ragon, so the US can't attach you from the sea and at the new place you can dig lots of tunnels in case of an air attach or maybe it was just advice from the state fortune teller.
You know how important your government is so you build a lot of impressive government buildings, for the wealthy visitors that will come you add 7 resort style 5 star hotels and some western style shopping malls. You know people like golf as much as you do and to show Myanmar always thinks of it's people,5 golf courses go in. Roads and good ones, maybe a freeway or two are all in progress.
You may be a bit short of modern construction equipment but not a problem because you have a good part of the counties population at your disposal as a labor source.
In fact this story is really a bit of old news - they started construction in 1995 and were supposed to have it all up and running in 2006. I've never visited so really don't know first hand where they are at with the project now.
It would be interesting to see first hand what is going on there. Though, visiting countries run by military junta's, especially with the human rights record of Burma, isn't high on my list. Seems, it might be a place where guys like me just disappear.
