This article is a bit inside baseball. For the majority of you who will not be familiar with this national capital, it really is quite an unusual place. There a

This article is a bit inside baseball. For the majority of you who will not be familiar with this national capital, it really is quite an unusual place. There are dozens of sprawling luxury resorts (and a dearth of budget accommodation, unlike most of Myanmar). And a huge western style shopping mall with, of all things, a fancy wine shoppe at the front (this is not scandalous but it sure is conspicuous). Hillary Clinton visited exactly five years ago. She almost certainly saw little of the country apart from the luxe interior of some government buildings not accessible to regular folks. How can I know this? Because in the new capital there is simply nothing to see, unless you count the capital itself. A paved road of 20 lanes is a must-see in every guidebook but Hillary might have assumed it was completely empty because it was closed for her motorcade. But those 20 lanes are always empty. It's a beautiful country anyway.