Myanmar (Burma) — Carpeting the street in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma) — why?
It will need a lot of hoovering
March 2015
On one of my evenings out wandering around Yangon, I came across a very odd scene in the middle of a closed-off street.
I was not at all sure what was going on.
At one end of the street, there was a stage.
![Photo by Author — A stage in the street — Yangon, Burma](https://www.nickswanderings.com/content/images/2024/05/1_aaZKiS8mxuJFDj4_91Ln5A.jpeg)
A little odd, maybe, but then I noticed the carpeting.
![Photo by Author — Carpeting a street in Yangon](https://www.nickswanderings.com/content/images/2024/05/1_YKyc2pqGZkyAPQNOfBMRsA.jpeg)
The carpeting almost ran the entire length of the street.
![Photo by Author — Carpeting a street in Yangon](https://www.nickswanderings.com/content/images/2024/05/1_jM2Nks8k-aK1Y-kGkDkWQQ.jpeg)
![Photo by Author — Carpeting a street in Yangon](https://www.nickswanderings.com/content/images/2024/05/1__yvp_KQGp-38_EMMaiCNRA.jpeg)
All a bit odd.
Why was the street carpeted? What was going on? A wedding?