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Fire in the Building

Who would have thought that I  experienced fire in the building.  This is my first time living in an appartement. Of course I never chose appartement when living in Indonesia because it’s a real high risk when the earthquake happen. But here we are placed in an appartement. What got me relieved the first time that we are in the lowest floor so if something happen we will be quickly evacuated.  That’s what I thought.  Until it really happened.  We slept around midnight and abruptly woken up by the noise outside. I thought it was the drunk people just got back from night club or the restaurant next door was doing some deep cleaning. So loud that I had to wake up. My husband peeked outside and immediately said “fire brigade outside, you wait here!” I was just “am I dreaming or what?” I put on clothes, checked outside and saw a few of fire trucks. I checked the other side of the appartement and saw a few of police cars and ambulances.  “Oh no, something serious...

Bogyoke Market

 

Masih tentang Yangon kemarin, ngomong-ngomong, Yangon ini kota yang ketika dikunjungi tuh rada susah nyari yang namanya souvenir. Gw bukan tipe orang yang suka beli-beli souvenir buat orang sekampung sih tapi gw selalu usahain beli buat orangtua gw dan juga om gw. Udah itu berdua doang, gw bahkan jarang banget beli buat gw sendiri kecuali kalo butuh dan unik. Cuma di Bangkok kemarin aja sih yang gila-gilaan belanjanya gw. Pertama kali khilaf 😁

 

Karena kegiatan belanja, beli-beli, liat-liat souvenir ini selalu nggak ada di agenda suami gw, jadilah gw slalu curi-curi waktu buat nginguk toko souvenir. Ini pertama kalinya rada susah nemuin toko souvenir ya di Yangon ini. Nggak ada tuh yang pinggir jalan toko souvenir berantakan gitu. Waktu coba cari, nemu satu yang menurut orang banyak ini pusatnya belanja barang-barang dari Myanmar.


Bogyoke Market namanya.

Pasar ini, yang kusuka tentu bangunannya dong. Bangunannya ala Inggris karena memang dibangun di masa kolonialisasi Inggris. Dulunya juga dipakai untuk pasar tapi ketika terjadi transisi kekuasaan ke Myanmar, pasar ini ganti nama jadi Bogyoke (baca : Bo cho).

 
lacquerware

Yang jadi andalan pasar ini adalah batuannya. Batu batu dari yang KW 1,2, Super hingga yang asli ada. Tapi bisa dilihat lah ya, kalo asli harus ada lisensi resminya. Dan itu, yaaa agak susah kalau belum cari yang sudah direkomendasikan. Selain batu-batuan ada juga lacquerware, ada juga longyi, banyak lah. Untuk harga lacquerware menurutku agak mahal sih, harganya sekitar 50 ribu sampai ratusan ribu tergantung besar kecil barangnya. Tapi lacquerware ini lucu gambarnya.

 


Nah gw juga dapet longyi sepasang, harganya 14ribu Kyat atau setara dengan 140ribu rupiah. Cantik longyi nya, gw bakal pake buat kondangan LOL.

Kalo mau yang lebih gampang lagi buat belanja, bisa mampir di New Bogyoke Market yang ada di seberangnya pas. Tapi disitu lebih banyak baju-baju aja sih. Gw lebih suka yang pasar lama, karena lebih krasa tuanya 😀 Lebih dapet feel heritage nya.

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  1. Kok aku ndelok bangunane koyok Kota Lama Semarang yah. Bagus bangunan tuanya tapi gak terawat

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    1. persis!!! bangunannya bagus2 di yangon itu, ya bangunan kolonial kan slalu lucu asik gt kan cm krg perawatan kayak masih blm ada yang restorasi gt. jadie yaaaa agak rusuh ga elok gt di liak

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