Yangon - Myanmar.

 Asia-Myanmar-Yangon Showing the famous Pagoda . It is even more impressive in reality. One of those sights you never forget. This is a World Heritage Site. 

This card is in fact from October 2022. When I visited Myanmar , all the Post Offices only had limited mail outside the country. After Covid a lot of the Postal agreements with airlines were not renewed and so no way to get the post out to other countries. So , all my postcards were hand postmarked. However, this card was sent to a friend of a friend in Malaysia , as they had a postal service from Myanmar. 

Bagan- Myanmar - World Heritage Site.

 Asia-Myanmar-Bagan Showing the Shwezegone Pagoda . Bagan has so many temples and pagodas. It is breathtaking and was amazed how good condition they were all in. Bagan is a World Heritage Site. 

As per the rest of Myanmar this is postmarked and handed back to me. In fact the post office here did not know that there was a limited postal service to international countries. So I did mail a postcard back to Ireland. I dont expect to get it though .. Lets see. 

Mandalay - Myanmar

 Asia-Myanmar-Mandalay Showing statures at a temple -Mandalay Hill. The city itself was not interesting but had many temples and worth visiting . 

Due to lack of international services I had to get this card stamped at the post office . It did not go in the mail. 

Yangon - Myanmar

 Asia-Myanmar-Yangon It is very rare here to have a postcard from a new country . In fact this is my last set of postcards from new countries and they are all in Asia . Organising a trip to Myanmar was not easy with special insurance and waiting on covid rules to be relaxed to visit. However that being said it was well worth it. The Shwedagon Pagoda is amazing . Photos do not do this justice . A unique pagoda for sure. 

The Post office in Yangon was a bit of a disaster to say the least. The Post office from the early 1900s has seen better days. The stamp counter was just at the entrance and they had a few stamps as above that was it. No philatelic counter. To make matters worse there is currently only postal service to 5 surrounding countries in Asia. Apparently there is an ongoing issue with the airlines contacts since covid. So this card joins Guatemala, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia  and Somaliland that was handed back to me. I did send a card via Malaysia and fingers crossed lets see if that gets through.