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chances are you haven't been to this place. >> but chances are this is a place you've never seen. other than maybe blurry cell phone videos, old black and white newsreels from world war two. chances are bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar after 50 years of nightmare. something unexpected is happening here and it's pretty incredible. i took a

walk through this beautiful world. >> felt the cool. >> rain on my. shoulder. found something good in the air. beautiful world. i felt the rain getting colder. sha la la la la. sha la la la la la sha la la la la. sha la la la la la la. >> in yangon, capital city of myanmar. it's dark. blackouts are frequent, with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie yellow orange hue. for

almost a hundred years under british rule, this was rangoon in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections. they came and went. the results ignored opposition, punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman, where he'd first grown to despise the apparatus of a security state, became more orwellian than even he could have imagined. a nation, or even having an opinion, could be dangerous. >> i am very honored to be here at this university, and to be

the first president of the united states of america to visit your country. >> morning in yangon. to nearly everyone's surprise, there have been some huge changes in recent months. >> the most difficult time in any transition is when we think that success is in sight. >> nobel prize winning democracy champion aung san suu kyi, for nearly 15 years under house arrest, was released and has now taken an active role in politics. just as the door is opening, my crew and i are among the first to record what has been unseen for decades by most of the world. meanwhile, this southeast asian country of 80 million people is collectively holding its breath, waiting to see what's next. and will this loosening of government grip last? bill maher of course, morning in yangon has always been about

tea. it's black indian style tea, usually with a thick dollop of sweetened condensed milk. you want it sweet, less sweet, very sweet, strong, less strong. everybody's got a preference. everybody's got a preferred tea shop where they know presumably how you like yours. >> i saw only less sweet and a bit strong. >> journalist and publisher usha saw. we meet at the city's chai tea shop. >> anything can happen in a tea shop. this place means a lot of things. not just a place for breakfast and snacks for 50 years of paranoia and repression, tea houses were also the main forum for guarded and not so guarded discussions of the daily news, where you tried to piece together the real stories behind the ludicrously chopped and

censored newspapers. >> carefully, of course, because informers and secret police were also heavily represented in these hotbeds of sedition and discontent. so, given your profession, how have you managed to stay out of prison all of these years? no, how was that? >> oh, really? two times. two times? one special bond. please call me. hey, would you please come into the office? we need to talk. right? so why not? right there and then talk to us? 8 or 9 days in the prison. there was this very serious control that came with the first military government press scrutiny and registration department, so. oh, that doesn't sound good. we need to send in our copies to that office and then take a look at everything. let's say you take this off. take that out or black this out, or just take the whole story out. >> magazines that would come into the country, would they cut out, literally cut out the pieces. >> the people under this kind of tight censorship, people

become more, i think, creative. take a look. careful reading. then maybe something between the lines as it is something you were accused of sending a secret messages. >> in the back, a cauldron of salty little fish bubble over hardwood coals. fingers work. mountains of sweet bean. one of the fillings for the variety of pastries that are stuffed, shaped and put into an old stone oven. in another corner, the heartening slap of fresh bread pressed against the clay wall of a tandoori and, of course, eggs. bobbins spin in the magical hell broth of fish, spice and herb mohinga this i must have. correct me if i'm wrong. if there's a national dish, a fundamental most beloved dish, would it be? would it be this? >> yeah. for example, take a look at all these vegetables. this is indian. these are

chinese, et cetera. but then mohinga is a local thing and it's popular not in the city but also in the rural areas too, in a fish paste with some rice or noodles with. sometimes we put in some crispies like fried beans or fried guts. so these are some coriander leaves. yeah, you can make some, some limes. >> sprinkle some in here. yeah mhm. >> good textures, particularly in the light of obama's recent visit. these are interesting times. significant changes. for the first time in 50 years. yeah. >> there's one thing which is quite significant. whereas if we take a look around all kinds of people, all age groups, let's say a couple of years ago, people would be talking about politics. you you tone down, right? you whisper it. but nowadays people are displaying more or being more outspoken. so the society become much more open to life. they started relaxing the rules about censorship. august 20th we were called in to that

office. wesaid the boss. okay, 48 years in 20 days of censorship is gone. that's it feel good? yeah. that's what we've been waiting for so many years. >> i love that they answered it. it's a careful. yes. >> yeah. first people within the country we have some doubt about okay. is it real? the changes in the reforms. but as now it's about a couple of years. and then now people start believing that, oh maybe, maybe it's real. the process is still very young. it is still possible when the generals stop and think, okay, that's enough is enough, let's turn back or let's stop. i'm optimistic about the changes in the reforms, but we're still cautiously optimistic. >> in yangon, motorbikes are outlawed. why is a matter of much rumor and speculation. so it's the bus for

me. something seems almost out of sync. not too long ago, even filming here officially is an open, professional western film crew would have been unthinkable. in 2007, a japanese journalist was shot point blank and killed filming a street demonstration. be seen talking to anybody with a camera and they would likely be a knock on your door in the middle of the night. yet so far. confronted with our cameras, a few smiles and mostly indifference, at worst shocking considering how recently the government has started to relax its grip we love to eat. >> and don't forget, for 50 years we were under two dictatorships and especially under the socialist era. not a lot of things to do, but you know, cook and share food and,

you know, this is mathangi, a famous and very controversial figure in public life, myanmar or burma, myanmar, because that's the original name. since the 13th century, mathangi, like utsa, has also spent time in prison. >> but on emerging after three years, she became, in the minds of many, an apologist for the regime. fairly or not, i leave to others. >> sometimes outsiders act as if you know it's only after the military junta went away that you know things happen first. we were sort of like in the frozen state, like snow white dead. >> but her many well-known books on the culinary traditions of myanmar make her a compelling advocate for burmese cuisine. so you're very passionate about the cooking and the cuisine here. >> and, well, it's just that i like to eat, and i eat like a pig. >> this is yangon's feel

restaurant. >> houthis, i think are the the best of our food. i'm going to order a lot of salads. you haven't had, you know, it's going to be like a sort of a tasting thing. >> there's pig head salad with kaffir lime leaf, long beans, salad with sesame and fish sauce, penny leaf salad. even this salad of india style samosa. everything's out there at the same time. >> yes. >> no. first course, second course. >> no no no no. >> if i'm invited to a friend's house, the table would be covered with dishes right? >> covered. and it's really about the interaction between a lot of colors, textures and flavors in one dish or different? different. yeah. wow. i'm in love. that's good. yes, it is. and of course, there's the maddeningly delicious condiments and pickles with which to make each dish your own. >> you make a lot of different combinations with each mouthful. >> ah, this is something very confusing in general. in this part of the world, everybody eats everything differently to very much to their taste.

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are wi-fi, internet rare 3g. you got to be kidding. if you need to exchange money here, only crisp. absolutely new hundred dollar bills accepted in myanmar. it's another older world. oh, and what's up with this? with all the kissing sounds that's smooching. kissing. you know, sound that you're hearing all over the place? my wife would have been in, like, ten fights so far. sorry. were you smooching at? this is how you summon a waiter in myanmar. i know, i know. try that at hooters and you will be rightly ejected. it takes some getting used to for sure. min lane is a big, noisy seafood house where fish is prepared in the style of yicai, the coastal province to the west. named for the rakhine people, one of over 135 distinct ethnic groups

around here. see, now we're talking. prawn curry is one of those one of those things everybody tells you you got to eat here. prawns from the river, the tomato curry. hey, there's good sauce. oh that's good. that is some good, my friends. we shall know them by the number of their dead. early morning in yangon, among the crush of commuters, shoppers, people trying to make a living rise up. the last remnants of empire faded, often crumbling, but still there. after all these years. these are the offices, businesses and public buildings of the british colonials. the seafarer building was once one of the swankiest department

stores in rangoon. a century ago, when kipling's poem mandalay was beckoning, the overheated imaginations of a generation of young englishmen. here you could buy fine egyptian cigarettes, french liqueurs. the floor tiles were shipped over from manchester. now people live here. a half century. is a pariah state. has left very few of these buildings in good repair, and there are divergent views on whether to preserve them. for many, a reminder of colonial subjugation, for others, a vestige of a golden time. these days in myanmar, in the streets, on the docks, it's all about moving forward. in an economy ripe to explode. if things continue trending in their current direction, the busy hustle and bustle of

yangon's port appears even busier today as workers prepare for the oncoming holiday. >> hey chef, how are you doing? >> it figures, doesn't it? >> yeah, it does. welcome to myanmar, philippe lazzarini, owner proprietor of my old restaurant lol. >> it seems only natural that you'd be in burma myanmar at the same time as me. back before anything. before i wrote the book that changed my life from broke utility grade chef to whatever it is i am today. i'd never been to asia until this guy sent me to japan and got me hooked on a continent. >> wait, there we go. >> oh, nice chicken head. >> yeah, that is the perfect mood. awakener. oh, yeah. >> philippe travels constantly. he's been bouncing around asia for decades. like all good travelers, he's relentlessly curious and without fear or prejudice. >> it's fantastic. >> it makes perfect sense,

then, that over cold brew and chicken necks in the port of yangon, philippe is the one joining me to explore this particular moment in myanmar. >> that's the monetary no. >> it is going to be a party. >> yeah. untz untz untz untz untz untz full moon party tonight. full moon party. >> that's what that means. we have no idea. >> we don't know. there's only one way to find out. i suppose. no big meal. >> mohammed tawfeeq nabil abu rudeineh. >> ciao, saliva, saliva. >> what? sounds like a bottle. >> gets crazy from now on. it's tuesday, full moon day. a holiday marking the end of the rainy season. and today marks the beginning of three days of break out. the crazy. giant speakers compete for attention, everybody cheerfully oblivious

to the distortion. cotton candy, trinkets, tube socks. just like a new york street fair, but with infinitely better food. oh, these are the little birds. yeah, these guys are really good. >> was flying just a bit earlier this morning. >> i'll tell you, it's the backbone of every street fair in the world, isn't it? deep fried food. that's why. >> and here they also have the little batter. they break a quail egg in it. one shot. it's pretty good. that's it. he's happy. all right. this is so tasty. much less greasy than i thought it would be. in fact, rather delicate. >> anytime you tell me, crispy little bird, i'm all over it. >> good head. good beak, too. good beak. crispy and tender. >> oh, and they have rides. check this out. okay. it's a ferris wheel, but the power source. not unusual for these parts is not electric. it ain't gas.

oh, man. are you kidding me? it's human power. >> you have to see it to believe it. >> and absolutely, insanely dangerous. closely choreographed process of first getting the giant, heavily laden wheel in motion and then getting it up to top speed and keeping it there. wow, look at this thing tilting out to. and that's the break. >> three guys the other way. >> note the footwear, by the way. and it's not just this one. every couple of blocks bigger and bigger ferris wheels, each one with its own troupe of acrobatic spinners and you're going for a ride is tempting, but cnn hosts implicated in death of four underage carnies. that's the thing just came off the hinges. and next thing you know is

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>> i'm elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles and this is cnn. >> next day of the full moon festival. and whether you look out the window at a rural village. or at the streets of yangon, what's happening is probably pretty similar. a tableau of dancing, body painting, car mounted speakers blasting away. but it's also three days of merit accruing. the practice of performing charitable or otherwise good works in the hopes of jacking up your karma. money trees are paraded around, pinned with cash donations for months. free banquets and feasts are held, and many

moments of spiritual. reflection. the majority of people here practice theravada buddhism. the oldest, most conservative form of the religion, which simply put, asserts that existence is pretty much a continuous cycle of suffering through birth, death and rebirth. >> noisy, very noisy, very noisy. yes. >> in the morning star tea house, where i've come well, for a couple of reasons. reason one the must have bone deep old school favorite around here. la pet toque, a salad of fermented tea leaves. i know that does not sound good, but you'd be wrong to think that. take the fermented tea leaves, add cabbage, tomatoes, lots and lots of crunchy bits like toasted peanuts seasoned with lime and fish sauce. this is

absolutely delicious. >> do you like it? oh, yeah. >> it's fantastic. >> yes, yes. fantastic. >> simple, delicious things not to be taken for granted. if you've been in and out of the joint like this. guy zani bo, activist, astrologer and three times convict. yeah, everyone i've met in this country so far, in fact, has been to prison. >> it seems this happens again and again for us in myanmar. >> almost six years, six years, nearly six years. >> all the judgments are made by the kangaroo court, the navy, army and the air force. these three officers are sitting all together. they read, this is your sentence like that? it happens only minutes like that. >> what is life like inside prison? >> nice. nice. very nice. >> i have a hard time believing that, you know. >> very nice. we can talk to each other, you know, saying some things. and we use a mirror to look each other. >> access to books, no books, no writing thing, no paper, no nothing at all. >> a mat and a blanket and a

plate. and a bowl. only. these are the things that we possess. >> how's the food? the food in prison? >> soup. rice with pea soup. only one meat meal for a week. that's on thursday. you know that in prison. in ancient prison, all the fish has no body, only the head and the tail. no middle part i can look like this. >> so there is hope for this country in your view? >> yes, yes, yes, especially with the buddhist belief. know how to live in situations dictators, you know, and the political pressures or even discrimination. everything is happening to us. but the buddhists say, okay, that's about past life, love. if we could do something or get next, life will be good. >> there's something pretty cool about meeting people who've been for so long, unable to speak now, so unguarded about their hopes and their feelings.

that's how you trained me to pete aguilar. >> beyoncé jared wayne mangione. doge kavakli. >> sizzling meets the clink of beer glasses ringing bicycle bells. this is yangon's 19th street. does yangon rock? can it rock? >> 90th street is like a magical place. when you are in yangon, meet burmese punk rockers side effect and lead singer darko. you can come here anytime. there will be lots of people like here. >> so if you sit here long enough, you'll see every musician in town. >> yeah, you can say that the citywide curfew used to mean close your doors at 11 p.m. >> most shops and restaurants

still close early, but not here on 19th street, where you can eat barbecue late into the night. wow. what do we have here? what? grilled tofu. >> yeah, this is a pork toe portal. >> oh, yeah. it's barbecue. is awesome. these young men show exactly how determined you've got to be to rock, especially in burma. >> i'd like to say my early influence was nirvana. and then sex pistols, ramones and stuff like that. >> what american bands do you hate? occasionally? >> uh, yeah. um. creed? >> yes. yes, they are like the worst band in the history of like, the world. so what's it like having an indie band in myanmar? and is it difficult? >> for sure, for sure. yeah. before you record the song. so, you know, like when you got the lyrics, you got to submit the

lyrics. so they're gonna censor it. they're gonna check it and even sometimes they, they will, you know, suggest you some words to change. >> oh, that must be funny. >> very funny actually, you know, now, is that still the case? no, it's not like that anymore. they're not gonna censor you, but it's gonna be kind of risky because you don't know what's going to happen to you if you write and sing something wrong. >> so let me ask this. if all your dreams came true, where would you want to play? >> new york city? >> you want to go to new york city? yeah. >> awesome. it's my dream. you just need to be strong. so that's what. that's what i keep telling my bandmates, you know? come on, be strong. have faith. >> so i hope people reach out to you because you're making rock n roll is hard enough. truly independent rock and roll is even harder. and i'm guessing that making it here is harder still. so, gentlemen, you deserve some success.

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>> we lost the dining car here. >> we lost the dining car. but even our original sleeping car lost a wheel. so we just have to hope for the best. >> the night express to bagan. 600km of what will turn out to be kidney softening, travel by rail. but bagan, myanmar's ancient capital, i've been told, is a must see. >> the true old english experience. the engine is a french engine from the 70s. >> we've been told it's a somewhat uncomfortable ten hour trip. so really, the question on this end of the journey is come back on the train or flying coffin. mishaps on both burmese planes and trains are not, shall we say, unheard of. the widowmaker express that is the choice. >> so that may be the signal to depart at some point. yep. >> all aboard!

whoa! we're moving. >> here we go. here we go. >> oh! that's it. we have reached cruising speed. >> really? this is cruising speed. just a bit. you could literally outrun this train. >> you could jog ahead, have a nice meal in some. you know, recommended restaurant. >> we could catch up with it. >> it's like the digestive walk. there we go. this is stop number one of 75.

>> heading north, the scenery opens up. the space between things gets wider, more pastoral and more beautiful. looking around at my fellow passengers, it could be hard to distinguish between the 135 plus ethnic groups that make up the burmese population. the very name burma refers actually to only one of these groups what they all seem to have in common, however, is tanika. a face paint and sunblock made from tree bark that masks many of their faces. it's ubiquitous here, at first, jarring to see. it quickly becomes something you get used to and take for granted.

yangon's gravitational pull broken and with darkness falling, the train picks up speed. at times, terrifyingly so. >> this thing is going to derail at some point. they have lost how many wheels yesterday on this one train. so truly, it's about being in the right car. the one that keeps its wheel derailments or rail slips as they are referred to here. >> a somewhat more benign sounding occurrence than, say, rolling off the tracks into a rice paddy are not uncommon. and one can't help wondering what the engineer and conductor are thinking. as the train speeds heedlessly

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>> like the last century never happened. or even the century before that. we're traveling across the largest mainland nation in southeast asia. but it should be pointed out that we are still within the confines of the tourist triangle areas permissible for travel. whole sectors of this country, much of it, in fact, are off limits simply put, there is going on. they do not want you to see. a low intensity conflict with the ethnic kachin tribe would be one of them. a wave of persecution and deaths in joachim state. the country may be opening up at its center, but all along the edges it's waging a desperate war to hang on to the status quo. needless to say, the status quo is not good.

>> all right. bagan, here we come a thousand years ago, bagan was the capital for a long line of bamar kings. >> it's the sort of place where the old coexists with the even older, as elsewhere in this part of the world, in many of the buddhist temples here, far older animist spirit based beliefs coexist with more recent buddhism. and in myanmar, worship of the nats is widespread. nats, as i understand it, are more like greek gods. former humans, demigods, spirits, often with very human qualities and failings. dance

performances pay homage to the individual nats performers claiming to actually channel them, bringing about one hopes, a beneficial spiritual possession. so. but i'm not just here for a nat puy. i have a list of things to eat in myanmar, and this is one of them. chicken curry. and from roadside joints like this, nestled among the temple ruins, you're more than likely to catch a very enticing whiff. just delicious. spicy, but not to the point that you want to scream out for mercy. but swimming heat, slow simmered curry served with a side of sour soup made from roselle leaves. with it you get fried ground chilies, pickled bean sprouts. you get the idea. they always have, like these relishes, these dipping type things. these like really interesting salads that i'm like, not really a salad guy.

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use friday plans.com. >> i'm hanako montgomery in tokyo and this is cnn. >> you'd expect this an ancient city of nearly unparalleled size and beauty to be overrun with tourists. souvenir shops, snack bars, tours on tape. but no. >> oh, this is stunning. >> you'll encounter some western travelers at bagan's temple. sights, for sure. but generally speaking, they're a hardy bunch. even the bus tours here are not for the faint of heart or the weak of spirit, but for the most part, you're far more likely to bump into a goat than a foreigner. >> this is so beautiful, so much like an ode to human, you know,

beliefs and adoration and worshiping and slave labor and slave labor. >> i'm thinking you build this many temples, thousands of them, in a relatively short period of time. chances are, if somebody was working for less than minimum wage, let's put it that way. >> oh, sure. >> we could fly here. look at that. >> a millennia ago, in a period of just under 250 years, over 4000 structures like this were built here. they say that a bamar king, anawrahta, began this project after a conversion to theravada style buddhism. they started a new temple like every 14 days. over 3000 pagodas,

temples and monasteries remain today. inside, almost every one of them a buddha figure, each one different. >> and i like how integrated it is with the trees, pastures and actually, funny you should mention that people used to live here, but the government came along in the 80s, i believe, and relocated. >> it was a mass relocation project, so any homes, anything? it was understood. this is a good you know, this is a tourist box here. they've relocated the entire population. we're in one of the first mass waves of tourists. european tourists have been coming here in relatively small numbers for a long time, but the floodgates have certainly opened. their building hotels like crazy around this area. what's called the tourist triangle what is this? >> here? oh, this this is this is a nice car as myanmar begins its shift towards accommodating

increasing tourism and a service economy to go with it, there will be adjustments. >> there will be, of course, a downside. >> how much you pay. >> okay. what's that going to mean? how will burmese react to all of the goods good and evils that come with tourism? >> okay. mr.. what about you? okay, perfect, perfect. >> it's going to be mobility. it's going to mean prosperity for some will mean a lot of bad things, too. you know, it'll mean prostitution. it will mean hustling. >> okay. my boss you very much for your help for the children. and you too. everybody selling to you. you buy, you buying you. you buy lacquerware, you buy, but you don't buy. there's no fair you're buying. >> i don't need a postcard. >> we're told that kids are dropping out of school to do this. the double edged sword of the service economy you want to buy for only $5. >> one. 23456789 ten. come on.

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