As an inveterate traveller, I've driven all over the world - from the rugged tip of New Zealand to the winding roads of Santorini. By now It takes a lot to surprise me. Being a Canadian I learned drive (like 66% of the world) on the right-side of the road in left-hand-drive vehicles. In Australia, NZ and the UK, I recalibrated my driving skills to the left-side in right-hand-drive vehicles. These two opposing systems are standard throughout the bitumened world.

But until Yangon, I've never encountered a place where they drive on the right-side (like Canada) in right-hand-drive vehicles (like the UK). Apparently this is an artifact of a 1970s consultation with an astrologer, who urged the ruling general to "move to the right." Go figure!

Yangon is, to my knowledge, the only place in the world which employs this unique system. And with the drivers' blind spot it creates, I'm surprised there isn't more carnage on the roads!