The Pegu Club was the most exclusive British gentlemen's club in colonial Rangoon, founded in 1882. Today it stands abandoned and largely in ruins — a vast teak and brick colonial building that the jungle is slowly reclaiming. The gates are usually open and visitors can walk through the overgrown grounds and peer into the crumbling interior.
It is one of Yangon's more evocative ruins — simultaneously beautiful and melancholy. George Orwell drank here during his years as a colonial police officer in Burma, an experience he drew on in both Burmese Days and Shooting an Elephant. Located in Dagon Township; access by trishaw or taxi from downtown.