Cars and buses line up near the Sule Pagoda, in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar when he travels to Yangon on Nov. 19 to meet President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who spent more than 15 years under house arrest before the country shifted to democracy after decades of military rule. Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images