Sule Shangri-La serviced aparments sit on the edge of Yangon’s Kandawgyi Park. Photo: Sule Shangri-La/ Facebook.
The luxury residence attached to Sule Shangri-La hotel will next week host a ‘vertical run’ in aid of charity.
Entrants to the race, at Sule Shangri-La Serviced Apartments, will pay $5 each to climb 22 floors. That’s 396 steps.
The price goes towards building a school at a local monastery.
It’s the second staircase marathon to be held there, according to a Facebook event posted by the organizers.
Vertical runs have been a fad in Asia and around the world for the past few years. They usually involve sprinting up dozens of floors in a hotel.
Sound sweaty, crowded and mildly ludicrous? Competitors in Yangon may welcome the break from pounding the pavements – running here can be irksome: if it’s not relentless rain, it’s intense heat and broken sidewalks. It can also be spectacular.
And Sule Shangri-La Serviced Apartments faces Kandawgyi Park (pictured) – one of the city’s most popular running spots. So, who knows? There might even be a view.
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