Myanmar City Guide

There are a lot of city sceneries in Myanmar such as Myanmar city ancient world of Bagan and some places which you can go with Myanmar city guide. For Yangon, there are lakes, Shwedagon Pagoda, Bogyoke Aung San Market, wander around the architectural hodge podge of downtown where glittering, ancitent payas(Buddhist monuments) share the street with colionical Old Yangon, some interesting Myanmar places and quiet perfect to visit in Myanmar. Mandalay is actually the one Myanmar city also that can visit a lot of places such as in Amarapura, U Bein's bridge is the world's longest teak bridge, creaking under the footfall of commuting Myanmar monks and fishers, Inwa's Bagaya Kyaung is an evocative 19th century teak Myanmar monastery, the view from Sagaing Hill catches 500 temple tops peering over the Ayeyarwady River, upriver from Mandalay Myanmar, the Mingun Paya is an unfinished, but still king-sized, stupa base you can climb and across the Chindwin River from Mandalay, the Hpo Win Daung Caves feature 500 temples dotting the innards of a mountain shaped like a reclining Buddha in Myanmar.

With it's rich Myanmar culture and varied landscape, Myanmar (Burma) offers residents and visitors a wealth of sightseeing opportunities. Yangon has a number of attractions, notably the magnificent Shwedagon and various other Myanmar pagodas and payas, as well as the large number of grand colonial, yet mostly dilapidated, buildings in the downtown area. You can go that places with our Myanmar city guide.

Yangon city is a green and leafy Myanmar city, once know as the Garden city of the east. Much of the pleasure of visiting Myanmar city is wondering around talking in the ambience which is unlike anywhere else in Asia. Most of the Myanmar country's tourist attractions are outside of Yangon and the best source of information is other people who have visited them. Our Myanmar travel agents who can help you plan a wonderful trip for your Myanmar vocation with our excellent Myanmar city guide.

In Yangon, the most important townships outside the central area is Dagon-where you'll find Shwedagon paya, Myanmar people's park and several embassies and Bahan, site of many of the city's mid-range and top-end Myanmar hotels and inns. Central Yangon is a relatively simple area to find your way around, and pleasant enough to explore in foot. The main Myanmar central streets are laid out in a grid system, with the minor north-south streets numbered in the North American fashion. Many of the major Myanmar road where renamed after independence. Most of the old names are fading from memory, however, and are of interest perhaps only to those in search of a bygone era. Mention of China St(shwedagon paya Rd), Godwin Rd(Madaw Rd) or Montgomery St (Bogyoke Aung San Rd)will probably elicit little more than a shrug. One exception: Myanmar locals may indicate their political opinions by their choice of pre-junta terms such as Burma and Yangon. The English terms street and road are often used interchangeably in Yangon for the single Burmese word "lan" in Myanmar. Hence, some maps may read Shwegondaing St, while other will say Shwegondaing Rd; in Burmese, it's simply "Shwegondaing Lan".

Situated in the centre of Yangon Myanmar city, across from the MTT office, the tall Zedi at Sule Paya(admission free) makes an excellent landmark; in fact it's used as a milestone from which all addresses to the north are measured. Myanmar Legend says it's over 2000 years old but, as with many other ancient Burmese shrines, it has been rebuilt and repaired many times over the centuries, so no one really knows when it was built. The central stupa is said to enshrine a hair of the Buddha: its Mon name, Kyaik Athok, translates as "the stupa where a Sacred Hair Relic is enshrined". Most likely, as with the zedi at Shwedagon, it was originally built by the Mon in the middle of this century. The golden Zedi is unusual in that its octagonal shape continues right up to the bell and inverted bowel. It stands 46m high and is surrounded by small shops and all the familiar non-religious activities that seem to be bart of every Burmese Zedi. In fact, unlike the more pristine Shwedagon paya, sule's busy location seems to enhance its soulful place in daily Yangon life, and it's a popular meeting place for many Myanmar Burmese in Myanmar.

Close to the southern entrance to Mandalay Hill stands the Kyauktawgyi Paya, the construction of which commenced in 1878. it was originally intended that this Myanmar paya, like its namesake located a few kilometers south in Amarapura, would be modeled after the famous Anada Pahto(temple)Bagan, but due to a place rebellion this grand plan was not carried through. It is chiefly interesting for the huge seated Myanmar Buddha image carved from a single block of marble. The marble block from the mines of nearby Sagyin was so colossal that is required 10,000 men laboring for 13 days to transport it from a canal to the current site. Ornamented with royal attire, the image was completed and dedicated in 1865. Around the shrine are figures of the Myanmar Buddha's 80 arahats (enlightened disciples), arranged in groups of 20 on each of the four sides. Mandalay's biggest Myanmar festival is held here for seven days in early to mid-October to commemorate Thadingyut whish is one of the Myanmar festivals in Myanmar.