Myanmar's largest and most-populated city has changed at breakneck speed since the country started opening up to visitors around 2012. Since the democratic elections in 2015, sanctions have been lifted, shopping malls have been built, and smartphone shops have sprung up all over the city-although Myanmar only got its first internet connections in 2000. For decades closed to outsiders, the former colonial capital has become a jump-off point for traveling to other parts of the country.

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