If you drive about 5 hours directly north of Myanmar’s old capital Yangon, you will find a large city which appears abandoned. You have now arrived at the country’s new capital, Naypyidaw. And it isn’t abandoned, because it was never inhabited in the first place.
Having rented a private car with a driver for a weekend, my travel companions and I are eager to visit the ghost town, we have read so much about.
At first, our driver doesn’t even care to stop and simply drives right past the city, however. This results in a 45-minute detour, because highway exits are scarce in Myanmar. He simply didn’t believe that we actually wanted to see a place that no one wanted to live in.
We insist it’s…
