Video of Crepe/Dosa street food on Maha Bandulu Road, Yangon
Video of traffic at sunset on Maha Bandulu Road, Yangon
Maha Bandulu Street, Yangon
Maha Bandulu Road, Yangon
Maha Bandulu Road, Yangon
Maha Bandulu Road, Yangon
BEFORE THE COLONIAL ERA this busy street was a stretch of mud flats and the actual community was to the North. Today Maha Bandula Road is a dense traffic thoroughfare that reflects the changing fortunes of Myanmar. Vehicles clog the streets and the crowded sidewalks are an obstacle course of stalls selling everything from food through fruit to flashlights. Here you can experience bustle and activity with the accompanying symphony of dissonant sounds and the aromas of unfamiliar food smells and dense traffic exhaust.
It was the Royal Bengal Engineers who created Dalhousie Road. After independence, in 1948, it was renamed in honour of General Maha Bandula. He was a national hero who defeated the British, in the early 19th Century. In later battles it was the British however who became the victors. The Burmese General fought however courageously but died on the battlefield. After that the region became a colony and was absorbed into the British Raj.
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