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03/10/2015

# Shwedagon Pagoda #

# Magnificent Shwedagon is standing tall at the heart of Yangon.

# The most iconic building of Myanmar, but also wondrous attraction site of the world.

# 99 meter gold-covered stupa, located at the top of very pleasant hill, is the most holy site of the country.

# City’s main attraction, glittering Shwedagon, is said to contain eight hairs of the Buddha, a fact that only adds to its prestige.

# All of foreign visitors are awe-struck by its glittering and amazing beauty whenever it is under daylight or night scene.

# Many local pilgrims saying prayers and paying homage can be found anytime.

# Make sure to allocate ample time for a visit as upon reaching the base of the pagoda.

# It is advised to dress modestly to visit Shwedagon Pagoda as well as other Pagodas.

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03/10/2015

# Manuha Pagoda Festival #

# Manuha Temple is Famous for its amazing colossal Buddha Images inside

# Three giant images of seated Buddhas and another lying Buddha Image will surely amaze you as soon as you come into the temple

# Festival is held annually in the end of September or start of October. Many local people celebrate Manuha Pagoda Festival for three consecutive days.

# The Myinkabar region dwellers donate rice cakes and pickled winter melon to all comers during the festival days. Monks around the region are invited to the Manuha Pagoda and offered rice on the morning of the Full Moon Day.

# One unforgettable attraction is the parade of colorful paper mache figures, created by local people

# All the visitors enjoy watching this colorful paper mache figures and exploring the lifestyle of the Bagan locals

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03/10/2015

# Kalaw #

# Former British hill station, Kalaw, is blessed with cool and fresh air most of the year and very nice weather

# People use to come to escape the heat of the lowlands and always welcome to our peaceful Kalaw

# British architecture can still be seen in the dozens of colonial buildings in the downtown area

# Fine weather, cooling air and panoramic view for all the time can make your holiday fresh

# If you are a lover of trekking and interested in adventure, Kalaw has many trails to trek around the town. Picturesque trekking through the forests, green fields and many other attraction sites can surely give great pleasure

# Soft adventurous half day trekking will introduce to the flora and fauna of amazing Shan Hill, and you can choose overnight treks to get to higher elevations and more remote areas

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03/10/2015

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03/10/2015

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03/10/2015

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23/10/2013

More to be desired in Myeik

Competition can’t come to Myanmar’s skies fast enough. I’ve read detailed, if erratic and possibly insane, public letters concerning the exorbitant cost of domestic flights in Myanmar – and the issue is real.

Foreign tourists at least have options when it comes to most of the country’s major attractions: There are buses to Bagan and Ngwe Saung and trains to Mandalay and Inle, and - while you’re more or less bent over the barrel if you want to go – even to Ngapali or Sittwe.

The same goes for Dawei, Kawthoung and Myeik – seaside towns at the edge of the Myeik Archipelago in Tanintharyi Region, where as a tourist your options are to fly or go somewhere else. This is a huge shame and a nasty cost. I recently visited Myeik for the first time on somebody else’s dime and while the town was very interesting, I’d have baulked at paying US$129 each way – itself a special promotion rate.

For $258 return I can visit Bangkok several times, flying Golden Myanmar Airways or AirAsia, or visit friends and family in either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.

Courtesy of the hard work of the people at the Yangon Heritage Trust, the colonial-era buildings in the former capital are rightfully basking in the international spotlight – and bringing tourists to Yangon every day. But outside of downtown Yangon I don’t think I’ve seen so many glorious colonial buildings within walking distance as there are in Myeik. Many of them are in excellent repair and in daily use as homes or businesses.

Elsewhere the town is surprisingly bustling – motorcycles zip about the streets from early in the morning until late in the evening. A sizeable fishing fleet calls the town home and an evening walk along the waterfront reveals the charming sight of scores of boats floating on the harbour. Sadly, the same waterfront during the day is rather less pretty – trash cakes the waterline and betel nut-chewing workers and motorcycle taxi drivers loiter.

Myeik is a secular town – there are multiple brightly painted mosques, sedate churches and golden pagodas that glimmer in the sun at the hilltops. Getting around is easy with motorcycle taxis nearly everywhere. You’ll struggle to walk for five minutes without at least one offer.

The main food market, unsurprisingly close to the dock, is a lot like Bogyoke Market – but about a scale smaller in size. Wet markets elsewhere in the town are stocked with the newly caught bounty of the ocean, with stalls manned by cheeky women more than ready to share a joke with the gawky foreigner stumbling about and getting in everybody’s way.

It’s also easy to negotiate a small boat to cross the harbour to Pahtaw Island and then climb up the main hill to take in a panoramic view of the town. You can also charter a boat to circumnavigate the island at a reasonable price, although I stuck to the basic crossing, and heeded the advice from my hotel to not pay the boatman until we’d returned.

One thing I found truly odd about Myeik was the scarcity of restaurants – in more than two days, including most of a day on foot, I found just three restaurants worthy of the name. And even there we couldn’t order the monster prawns and lobster I was sure would be plentiful in Myeik.

If I were to go to Myeik again I’d hire a motorcycle to go beyond the town’s boundaries or hire a boat for a day and strike out for the nearest island in the archipelago if I could get permission.

But until airfares fall significantly in price I’d have to say that it might be a while before I return to Myeik.

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/travel/8460-more-to-be-desired-in-myeik.html

Competition can’t come to Myanmar’s skies fast enough. I’ve read detailed, if erratic and possibly insane, public letters concerning the exorbitant cost of domestic flights in Myanmar – and the issue is real.

08/08/2013

Business, FIT arrivals grow 60pc in first seven months

By Zaw Win Than | Monday, 03 September 2012


Myanmar welcomed almost 300,000 foreign visitors in the first seven months of the year, up 37.5 percent on the same period in 2011, figures from the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism show.

Arrivals of free independent travellers (FITs)– tourists not on package tours – and business travellers both rose more than 60pc, while the number of package tourists was up a more modest 15pc, the figures show.

From January to the end of July 299,529 foreign visitors passed Yangon International Airport and border crossings, up from 217,837 during the first seven months of last year.

Of the total, 280,913 visitors arrived at Yangon airport, with 18,616 entering at border crossings, according to the figures.

More than 60pc of visitors were from Asian countries, including about 48,014 from Thailand – the largest single group by nationality – followed by Japan with 23,242, China with 22,283 and South Korea with 17,799.

European nationals accounted for 65,300 visitors, representing 23.3pc of total arrivals. France led the way with 15,094, followed by the United Kingdom (11,124) and Germany (10,077).

The figures also showed that FITs made up the single largest group with 118,493 visitors, followed by package tourists (61,661), business travellers (60,979) and social visa holders (20,323).

The FIT figure was up more than 60.5pc on the 73,807 at the same time last year, while business travellers were also up 60pc, from 38,108. Package tourists increased 15.31pc from 53,471, while social visitors rose only 3.4pc on the 19,655 recorded in the first seven months of the year.

The strong growth is expected to continue into late 2012 and early 2013, with industry sources tipping growth of about 30pc during the coming peak season, which runs from October through to April.

But there are major questions over whether the industry has the capacity to meet the needs of the more than half a million foreign visitors expected to enter Myanmar in 2012.

U Phyoe Wai Yarzar, managing director of All Asia Exclusive Travel and chairman of the Myanmar Marketing Committee (MMC), said planned increases in capacity on both international and domestic air routes would support growth, but further investment in infrastructure was needed.

While optimistic about the outlook for coming season, Dr Aung Myat Kyaw, managing director of Orchestra Travel, said the industry was already near capacity and there were growing concerns over the lack of hotels, high room rates and other prices, low transport capacity, poor infrastructure and inefficient booking systems.

“The tourism industry will need to see more investment to cope with future increases in tourist numbers,” said Dr Aung Myat Kyaw, who is also an adviser to MMC.

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/travel/1373-business-fit-arrivals-grow-60pc-in-first-seven-months.html

Myanmar welcomed almost 300,000 foreign visitors in the first seven months of the year, up 37.5 percent on the same period in 2011, figures from the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism show.

13/07/2013

Akauk Hill ( အေကာက္ေတာင္)

That stunning hill located Bago region , near Pyay. Akauk Hill marks a crossing point along the Irrawaddy River, where Burmese and British interests met.
Shipping toll stations were placed on both sides of the river, and boatmen often found the crossing slow going as a result of the additional layer of red tape between the two jurisdictions.
It didn't help that the river currents sometimes resulted in long-lasting whirlpools, which made crossing even more of a chore. To pass the time, boatmen began to carve images of Buddha above the water line on the hill, hoping that the statues would bring them good fortune and protect them as they plied their trade on the river.
Over time, others began to add to the series of statues, even if they weren't boatmen, and as a result, a gallery of carvings has taken root along the banks of the Irrawaddy on Akauk Hill. They range from small discreet statues to large reclining figures of Buddha. There is a path that takes visitors to the rock face onto which the statues are carved, but seeing all of them at once can only be done from the river itself by boat.

12/07/2013

Hkakabo Razi: The Final Himalayan Conquest - "ခါကာဘုိရာဇီ" -

အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ၏ အျမင့္မားဆုံး ဆီးႏွင္းဖုံးေတာင္. ႏွင့္ျမန္မာျပည္မွ အၾကီးမားဆုံးဇီ၀မ်ိဳးကြဲ ဥယ်ာဥ္


ခါကာဘိုရာဇီေတာင္ထိပ္သို႔ ယေန႔အထိ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံသား တာကာရွီ အိုဇာကီ (Takashi Ozaki) ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသား တိဗက္ လူမ်ိဳး ညီမာ ဂ်ိဳဆိုင္း (နမား ဂြ်န္စိန္)(Nyima Gyaltsen) တို႕ပါဝင္ေသာ ေတာင္တက္အဖြဲ႕ တစ္ဖြဲ႕သာလၽွင္ ေျခခ်နိုင္ျခင္းရွိပါေသးတယ္