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Bogyoke Market
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The Bogyoke Market in Yangon, also called
Scott market
clearly
indicated that Myanmar bucks the trend
of the fast paced countries in south east
Asia. One of the real pearls of this slow
motion life is the Bogyoke or Scott market. Almost
nothing has changed at the Bogyoke Aung San market
since British colonial times. The Bogyoke
Aung San Market at Yangon is the incarnation of a
great oriental market with all bells and
whistles and for sure the right place for
Myanmar jewelry
and
precious stones.
Yangon is the Myanmar powerhouse, a
oriental playground of the past with a great
cultural and ecological diversity and
nowhere is it more apparent than in the
picturesque Bogyoke market in the center of
downtown Yangon.
No trip to Myanmar and Yangon would
be complete without witnessing this great
oriental market. Natural there are other
must see places in Myanmar, the main
difference to other places is, at the
Bogyoke Aung San market you can go shopping at a
stunning oriental market.
Integrated is the Jade market with
great imperial jade offer and even jade
Buddha Statues
there are about two dozen stalls for
jade jewelry, plenty of other
jewelry shops are around. Myanmar art
paintings, fashion, food, silver, lacquer,
pearls, Buddhist statues, sandal carvings,
mother of pearl items, teak wood carvings
and plenty of other oriental delights for
shopping are available at the Bogyoke
Aung San market. The next best similar
shopping bazaar is the
Central Market at
Kuala Lumpur China Town.
The Bogyoke
Aung San market is a real shoppers paradise in
particular for tourists and other travelers
since most of the items are really unique Myanma, another shoppers paradise is
Singapore shopping. |
- The best place for
shopping in Myanmar
is the Bogyoke Market in Yangon. ..if you cant find it there you wont find it anywhere.
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Just take a taxi, everyone know the Bogyoke Shopping Market,
be aware that at 5 pm sharp almost all shops are closed that
means shopping finished, Monday is off, all shops closed.
Yangon's
Bogyoke Aung San Market is also the best place to change money.
But don't listen to
the guys who approach you there and whisper
..change money... don't do it, they just will
cheat you. since they take your money go
elsewhere change it and take commission. Its better you go
to one of the shops and ask which shop changes money, this
way you change at the source with anyone in between who
takes commission.
A other way is if you want to buy
something anyway at the Market, tell the shop people the should help you
to change money. Ask at least 2 shops, now US$ and EURO
can be changed, forget all other currency, no one wants them.
There are a couple of other similar markets in Yangon but
much smaller and usually they only sell wood items, a very
decorative item to buy could be a
gold Buddha image.
One
of the good things is you can still find
genuine handicraft with a real style
and made with artistic skills, its
quite different to the night markets
in Thailand where they almost always
offer just almost industrial output
without a soul and style. |
Gold
Buddha Image |
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If you are in the mood for shopping
Bogyoke Aung
San Market
is the right place you will find yourself in a
environment similar to the old oriental
markets like in Istanbul or maybe as Marko
Polo experienced it during his journey to
China, its exotic, its very low priced, a
optical pleasure and real great.
If you are
strolling around in the side alleys between the halls of
the market to have a look for a good
shopping and it happen you see a
lot of guys talking in small groups,
taking out some small items
from the bag or the pockets, hiding
it somehow
suspicious, well you don't run into
a political gathering but into a open air
precious stones shopping market.
Lots of ruby, sapphire,
spinel,
jade just name it changing hands. |
Bogyoke Aung San Market |
Myanmar Art Painting Bogyoke Aung San Market
Bogyoke Market Sandalwood Shop
Myanmar Antiques at Bogyoke Aung San Market
Bogyoke Aung San Market Jade Bracelets and Marble
Buddha
Statues plus figurines
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Bogyoke
Aung San Market Handy Myanmar Boy
Sandal wood carved statues with the typical
fragrance are kept behind the glass, they are very
valuable.
Jade items like
Jade
Bangles from 10 US $ up to 3000 US$ are offered.
Jade Pendants with carved Buddha images are low priced.
Lapis Lazuli jewelry remind on the middle east. Pearls of all kind and
colors are also very low priced, you can get a very
beautiful pearl necklace for between US$ 20,- and US $
100,-Different items of Jade
Jewelry, Jade Pendants, Jade Rings, Jade Elephants
and other Jade items are on display.
There is
Chinese silk, Thai
silk and naturally also
Myanmar Silk for longys on display.
Ancient gramophones,
antique still and movie cameras are offered and plenty
of beautiful marionettes or puppets, essential for the
Myanmar Marionettes Theater.
All kind of artwork
is along some alleys dedicated to paintings. Sometimes
they also sell beautiful
orchids.
Bogyoke Market Street Food
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Myanmar Antiques ancient Marionettes or puppets
and
Buddha Statues at Bogyoke Aung San Market
Myanmar Antiques at Bogyoke Aung San Market Yangon
Myanmar woodcarving figures
Myanmar Marionettes or Puppets at Bogyoke Aung
San Market |
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Myanmar woodcarving
Mirror with carved teak frame
Myanmar pearls |
The
famous oriental bazaar is almost a
must for everyone visiting Myanmar.
Buying Myanmar jewelry, ruby, jade,
precious stones and jewelry in Yangon is
easy just visit the
Bogyoke market. Excellent precious and
semi precious stones, jade jewelry,
Myanmar woodcarving and
decorative items are on display.
Among
other Myanmar jewelry, ruby
diamond rings,
sapphire diamond jewelry and other
pretty
diamond jewelry are available.
The shops also offer items with gold and
precious stones plus diamond gold
handmade jewelry. Similar items could
also be bought at the gem museum, but
the market at the gem museum is much smaller.
Beautiful mirrors with carved teak
frames are available and also
lacquer ware. Especially some lacquer
with newer design are real eye catcher
and useful there is also some furniture
around.
Bogyoke market is a typical
oriental Bazaar in the best tradition of
shopping centers from a couple of
hundred years ago. It reminds at the
Bazaar in Istanbul, Damascus, Marrakech,
Samarqand and other exotic places.
At a small open area close by
where they sell paintings precious
stones are changing hands out of the
pocket. Its a ruby open air market.
A
visit to this oriental bazaar should be on your travel plan otherwise
you really miss something very unique.
Its also the right place for Myanmar
souvenirs. |
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Bogyoke Market Yangon Street Food
Myanmar Jewelry at Bogyoke Market
Bogyoke Market Jade jewelry and Wall Decoration |
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At the
Bogyoke bazaar they are selling all
products of the country which can be of
interest for any tourist and naturally
the local people. The audience at the
market is a good mix of locals and
foreigners; it’s probably the most
popular bazaar in the country. About 80%
of the products are all made in Myanmar
the rest usually come from China and
Thailand.
There are products of high quality
and of lesser quality, it needs to
browse the market first to get a feeling
what’s going on and check the goods you
might buy carefully before you hand over
money, most items except some particular
jewelry are available at the most
affordable prices. In particular fashion
jewelry and other body
decoration show a high level of
creativity using different
materials native to the country. |
Myanmar Jewelry at the Bogyoke
Aung San Market |
There are plenty of handicrafts
collection of different
types such as Myanmar jewelry,
woodcarvings, jade carvings,
gems, paintings, gold jewelry,
ruby jewelry, |
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lacquer, antiques, cloth,
handbags, pearls, mother pearl,
shells and plenty of other
items.
Myanmar handicrafts are
very seldom found elsewhere;
choose from hundreds of Myanmar
gifts, souvenirs plus art and
crafts. This oriental bazaar is to certain
extend a Myanmar flea markets
with a very native touch, an
excellent sources of great deals
and bargains. If you are
planning to go to a favorable
sale come early if you are the
first customer you get a very
good deal, that’s tradition
basically, you probably get the
picks of the day. |
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As the day progresses,
the good stuff at
Bogyoke Aung San Market
in Yangon tend to sell
fast. There are a lot of similar
items to be found at Bogyoke
Market prices may differ for
very similar items so look
around for a while. |
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One of the greatest pleasures
is bargaining or haggling you
always must negotiate with the
seller for lower prices, don’t
show to much interest even
consider to go to the shop for a
couple of times until you got
the deal you want.
This oriental bazaar is bursting with
small shops and goods
overflowing onto narrow paths in
the east west direction. There
are copies and fake items but
the local items are usually
genuine.
After some hours at the market,
walking and negotiating you
probably have enough, just sit
down at the many corner drink
shops and have something to
during but be very careful, only
drink from original closed cans
and clean them before
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Bogyoke Market Body Decoration No
Plastic
Myanmar Pearls
and Jade
Shop
Jade Shop
Wicker Bamboo Cane Bags |
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Bogyoke Market Marionettes |
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Pearls and semi precious
Body Decoration |
Jade Pearls semi precious Body Decoration |
Jade Mother of Pearl semi precious Stone
body decoration |
Myanmar Umbrellas |
Myanmar Art Souvenirs |
Myanmar Souvenirs Pearls and semi
precious |
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Jade Pearl semi precious stones
Mother of Pear Shop |
Pearl Shop |
Jade Shop Yangon
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Puppets and Marionettes |
Bogyoke Jade Market
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Teak Wood Carving |
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- Some of the most
impressive art's and
craft's of Myanmar
are teakwood carvings.
The carved items come in
all kind of shapes,
forms and for different
purposes as you can see
with this two samples
here, the mirror with
the frame carved from
teakwood and this pretty
elephant carved out of a
solid block of Myanmar |
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Myanmar Teak Wood Elephant |
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teak. Available
at Bogyoke market and
other shops throughout the
country.
The Bogyoke Aung San Market
is also a excellent source of great
jade statues, jade jewelry and other
Myanmar jewelry. At your Myanmar trip
you will sooner or later visit this
oriental bazaar at Yangon. All the treasures
of the country in terms of Myanmar jade,
jewelry, rubies, gold, precious and semi
precious stones are there on display
plus plenty of other items such as
lacquer, woodcarvings, marionettes,
antiques, clothing, textiles and other
items. Take a beautiful piece of jade
jewelry home from your Myanmar vacation
you won’t find this elsewhere, its
unique and valuable for a low price.
There are also jade sculptures, and
great looking jade Buddha's and a
laughing Buddha here and there.
There are unique paintings called
precious stones paintings where the
color are substituted with precious
stones such as jade, ruby and others,
its incredible decorative in any home.
This oriental bazaar is just the same
experience as during British colonial
times, it’s the prototype of an oriental
market. Plenty of other items are on
sale such as paintings, silver art,
mother pearl items, lacquer, pearls,
wood carvings, teak wood carvings,
plenty of other Myanmar art object and
gold Buddha images. |
Jade Buddha |
Laughing Jade Buddha |
Jade Statues |
Jade
Jewelry |
Lady
at the market |
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When
you are visiting Yangon's
Bogyoke market is on the agenda.
They are closed on Mondays and
public holidays. This oriental
bazaar is full of surprises and
it’s the main shopping area in
Yangon. Since the market is in
the center of the city many
people go shopping for all kind
of goods. At the opposite side
of the main road is also a
relatively big department store
in a very old building means, to
find anything either items for
daily use, souvenirs,
handicraft, jewelry, dresses,
clothing, |
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Myanmar Silk |
textiles, Myanmar silk it’s
probably either on the left or
right side of the road. Behind
the department store is a large
boulevard with drug stores,
pharmacies and small clinics
serving the dense population in
this part of the city, there are
hundreds of other shops around
its truly the heart of Yangon.
The streets are a busy
marketplaces with activity round
the year from around 8 am to
around 11 pm, |
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Bogyoke Aung San market closes
at 5pm.The bazaar is always
crowded with shoppers searching
for the best deals in jade
items, jewelry, fashion wear,
clothes, furniture, perfumes,
house decorative items, lacquer
ware, paintings and other art,
metal craft, Buddha statues,
rubies, precious and semi
precious stones and also
diamond, everyone is out for a
good bargains |
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Bogyoke Aung
San Market Jewelry Shop
Bogyoke Market |
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Ruby Sapphire Jewelry |
Ethnic Jewelry |
Sapphire Ruby Gold Jewelry |
Ethnic Jewelry |
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Ethnic Jewelry |
Ethnic Jewelry
Ethnic Jewelry |
Bogyoke Market Shop |
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Horse Marionettes or
Puppets |
Elephant Marionettes or
Puppets |
Marionettes or Puppets |
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Necklace Shop
Bogyoke Market |
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