
Myanmar - The Country of Gold :)
Gold Country, Myanmar
Pagodas and Buddhist temples - a sort of synonym of Myanmar, the Golden, "or" Land of Pagodas ". Britain conquered Burma for 62 years (1824 - 1886) and turned it into its Indian Empire. Burma was a province of India until 1937 and then became a separate self-governing colony. Independence was won it in 1948. In general Ne Win dominated the government from 1962 to 1988, first as a military commander and then as a self-proclaimed president and political figure. Despite multiparty elections in 1990, in which the main opposition party - National League for Democracy - won, the ruling...