-Myanmar or Burma is
a prime travel destination if the target is to
experience culture, friendly people,
beautiful beaches,
a grandiose landscape, lush tropical jungle, river
cruise on one of Asia's most famous river, the
mighty Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy river. Myanmar
travel could mean trekking in the untouched
Myanmar Himalayas, exploring forgotten tribes like
the Myanmar Naga and Chin near the border to India
and many other.
Myanmar travel
could also turn to visiting the pristine Myanmar
island world of the
Mergui or Myeik archipelago were Salon or
Moken sea gypsies
still live in the same way as centuries ago.
Myanmar was shut away
for a long time in a corner of the earth
between the Himalayas, the ocean, and the mountain
jungle on the border to Thailand, now Myanmar is
open for travel.
The
result today is Myanmar travel has plenty of excitement to
offer, views, news and insights you have never dreamed
about, Myanmar travel is different to travel in other
countries, mainly in the positive meaning. Travel agents in
Myanmar are plenty.
There are many small travel agent in
Myanmar / tour
operators dedicated to a certain market segment.
Some of the biggest
problems on travel
in Myanmar is to travel outside the big cities
like
Yangon,
Mandalay
etc. by road since many roads are in a very
bad condition and not wide enough to let 2 vehicles passing each
other without problems.
Using the airplane travel option
you can completely bypass this problem, but only one beach
is served via aircraft travel this is
Ngapali Beach in Tantwe, Rakhine State.Some exiting new
beach
hotels in Myanmar came up in recent years.
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can organize your Myanmar
travel and any exploration trip quickly. You can travel in
Myanmar without any major problems, the problems on a
Myanmar travel tour arise most of the time because of the
bad infrastructure. Don't believe all this nonsense the
"western" media is screaming that you cant travel in
Myanmar
as you like. The fact is you can go almost anywhere
and no military people will give you any problems.
The best is to hire a Myanmar travel guide, he or she has most
of the needed Myanmar travel information, means no problems
on your vacation trip. On top of it you will see and
experience things you will never do if you do your Myanmar travel on your
own.
Actually without a experienced
Myanmar
travel guide you probably miss about 50% of the interesting
subjects. Remember Myanmar is different don't compare the
country with Thailand or Malaysia.
All travel to Myanmar beaches is via road,
the only exception is Ngapali Beach, road travel in Myanmar is
extremely time consuming
because of
the above mentioned problems.
As usual this has a
other component, if you do Myanmar road travel it will
give you a incredible experience about the countryside which
you wont get in any other way, in particular travel to
Myanmar west coast through Pathein - Bassein, to
Ngwe Saung
Beach and
Chaung Tha Beach, beach
holidays are very popular.
If you want to a very
individual trip in Myanmar it's worth to
consider to rent a car with a driver - good cars with
air-condition
and driver - are available for about US$ 50,- upwards per
day and you can travel Myanmar according to your plan.
The driver will bring you
anywhere you like, don't try to do your Myanmar travel on
your own by renting a car and drive yourself.
Beach Hotel Ngwe Saung
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Myanmar river travel 19 th century
Ngwe Saung Beach
Traveling to
Myanmar is mostly for vacations, for
enjoyment and curiosity. But whatever may be
the purpose Myanmar is a real great travel
destination.
Many exotic travel locations across
Myanmar just wait for you to be
discovered. One of the great places in
Myanmar is the ancient pagoda city of Bagan.
There you get a lot of opportunity to
understand why traveling in Myanmar is
something special.
Myanmar is a
country with diverse culture, art forms,
cuisines, languages and landscapes. Myanmar
is packed with ample varieties in its
diversity to enjoy.
To make a trouble free travel to Myanmar,
the first is do it through a appropriate
travel agent who has knowledge of the
country.
A particular excellent travel agent
in Myanmar, with special knowledge on
adventure travel is here, its called
Myanmar Explore.
This travel
agent is ok to any destination in Myanmar
you want to visit. They choose the right
accommodation in hotels, travel lodges or
beach resorts.
They will just assemble the right travel
package for you, according to your
parameter. In any case for Myanmar
travel a excellent travel insurance is
highly recommended since if you have any
serious problems you have to get back at
least to Thailand. There are several
good hospitals in
Myanmar but they cant handle
everything..
Myanmar or Burma is a very hospitable
country, with warm and affectionate
people of different ethnic background.
Myanmar or Burma has about 130 ethnic groups
scattered all over the country. That means
exotic locations, diverse food and
difference religion and animism.
Beside of
Bagan and Ngapali plus other beaches are
plenty of more places to visit in Myanmar
like Inle Lake, Mrauk U, Yangon, Mandalay,
the Myanmar Himalayas and many more domestic
travel destinations.
Thus whether you are visit Myanmar or
Burma for adventure travel, spiritual
travel or family vacation travel its the
right choice.
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This way it very likely
will end into a unpleasant surprise since all traffic signs
outside the big cities are in Myanmar language only and you
will hardly find someone in the countryside you can talk in
English with. There is also almost no infrastructure if you have
any Myanmar travel problems either technical, health or
accident.
Since the driver could be also the guide on your
Myanmar trip you will see all
the interested subject on your Myanmar travel you surely
would miss on your own etc. All
hotels have special
accommodation for the driver so you must not think about
this, he will handle his stuff and will be ready when you
need him.
-Experience Myanmar Culture Travel
by
exploring the marvelous ancient
pagoda and temple city of Bagan in
central Myanmar.
Bagan is on a level
with the pyramids of Egypt and
culture of the Mayas and Aztecs in
central and south America.
Myanmar Travel Bagan
Beside of being Myanmar's top
travel destination,
Bagan is also highly reputed for
Myanmar art and
architecture, sculpture and painting, archaeological
findings and artifacts and is world-famous for
thousand and one
pagodas, stupas, cetis,
religious edifices and buildings.
Suffice it to say that,
these cultural values can only be appreciated by a
personal visit there.
Travel Bagan
Travel the Road to Mandalay or
the river cruise is in fact, a window to the beauty and
wealth of Myanmar Naingngan.
Many pagodas and
temples are gone with the rain, earthquake,
driven away as dust in the wind of central Myanmar,
but there are still enough around to be a real
highlight of any south east Asia Myanmar travel
tour.
Bagan is now a 42 square
kilometer area dotted
with thousands of ancient pagodas, temples, shrines, ordination halls and
sacral monuments.
Bagan is one of the richest archaeological sites in
southeast
Asia with about 2230 monuments still standing and some 1000 in ruins and as
many s many as 600 disappeared into the
Ayeyarwady
- Irrawaddy
during the summer flooding.
Originally about 4500
sacral monuments gave a unbelievable impression.
Today its easy to travel Myanmar, Bagan is accessible by air from Yangon,
Mandalay or
Heho
(Taungyi) in an hour or less.
Bagan can also be
reached by road from Yangon, Madalay and elsewhere,
from Yangon it's a distance of around 683
kilometers.
Buses make the trip in about 16 hours or an adventurous traveler
can reduce the time by 2 hours by taking a car
provided
the traveler can take the stress and strain of travel on Myanmar roads.
About that time
the first historical conquest of the lower
Irrawaddy was effected.
From the fact
that Myanmar was
not permanently subdued it may be inferred that the power of
the Mon or Peguan people (later called Talaing) was not greatly
inferior to that of the Burman.
Bagan, more or less on the east bank
of the mighty
Ayeyarwady
- Irrawaddy River,
was the splendid capital of the First Myanmar
Empire. Bagan is a must
see destination on any Myanmar travel journey.
Travel Myanmar Burma Bagan Pagodas and Oxcart
Travel Myanmar Burma Pagoda Buddha
Bagan Gubyaukgyi Pagoda Window
Travel Myanmar Burma Buddha Mural
Painting Bagan
Travel Myanmar Burma Buddha Mural
Painting Bagan Temple
Travel Myanmar Burma Bagan River Boat Pagoda
get water from the river
Travel Myanmar Burma Portuguese Church at
Syriam 17 th Century
Portuguese Grave at Syriam 17 th Century
The Mons, from the
affinities of their language, are conjectured to be of Annamitic origin. There is mention of the Pagan kingdom
independently of
the Burman chronicles, and there is above all the evidence
of the ruins of Pagan, probably the mightiest of
their kind. They testify to the power of the kingdom
and the influence of the religion which actuated the kings to build temples on
such a scale.
In 300 A.D. the power of
the
Pagan - Bagan kingdom had spent itself,
Travel Myanmar Burma Pagoda Pye
- Prome AD 700
in a great
degree owing, as the Myanmar's believe, to the drain of the
temple-building. But the force of the religion was unabated.
Burma fell a prey to Shan invaders, who
snatched the
dominion for nearly two hundred years but failed to
consolidate it, splitting up into principalities like those
of their native hills. The
weakness
of Burma allowed the Mon power to develop. The sixteenth
century saw the rise of Pegu - Bago and the establishment of
a shifting empire over Burma. Exhausted.. by wars, Pegu -
Bago in turn declined and lay at the mercy of Siam ( Yodaya)
when Paung (Taung - ngu) came to the rescue. In the
seventeenth century the Peguan dynasty brought the Mutt
umpire to its zenith, from which it waned in the eighteenth.
Towards the middle of the latter century the Emmaus under
Alaiung Paya rose against the Mum garrisons, overthrew Pegu
and finally established the empire of Burma.
Arakan - Rakhine was incorporated, Siam was subjugated and made
tributary for a time. The empire directed its ambition to
the west. Manipur was overrun and the Arakanese pretensions
inn 1571 the country was in a state of chaos. High officials
plotted against King Mong Phaloung. Astrologers advised the
king to build the Htukkant Thein Temple with the
help of the plotters as well as governors,
land-lords and common people.
Travel Myanmar Burma Htukkant Thein Temple at Mraung-U or Myohaung
Rakhine or Arakan
They acted according to a
saying common at that time, “when the city is worn, support
its ceiling.” The temple was built on a 70 metre by 80 metre
platform. The structure is built of stone
blocks with brick
pagodas on top of the hall and on the four corners.Inside
the temple there are two pavements with many images and
carvings picturing the various donors. It is a very
interesting collection of different costumes and ornaments.
Sixty four varieties of coiffure, forty different
head-dresses, twenty different bracelets, eighty-one rings,
sixteen types of pendant and various other body decorations
are a creative showcase.
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Burma Shitethaung Temple at Mraung-U or Myohaung
Rakhine or Arakan
The Shitethaung Temple
a great Myanmar travel destination in
Mrauk
U or Myohaung at Arakan or Rakhine, also called the
Temple of Eighty Thousand Images, was erected in 1536. The
building was funded by a donation from King
Mong Ba Gree to
commemorate
the victory over the
twelve provinces of Bengal and the Portuguese
marauders who came to assault the capital. The basic
structure is a hall topped by a main stupa
surrounded by 26 smaller stupas. The temple is 53
metres long, 41 metres wide and 29 metres high.
There are several passage ways with galleries
throughout the inner temple. The temple is richly
decorated with statues of Buddha as well as images
of the animals or persons which
Gautama Buddha
occupied in his 550 previous lives. People in native
costumes with faded colours are shown wrestling,
boxing and dancing.
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Burma Sakyamanaung Pagoda Mraung-U or Myohaung
Rakhine or Arakan
This beautiful
Myanmar travel landscape with
the Sakyamanaung pagoda in the centre is typical of the Mraunk U area.
The hills
and valleys are dotted with dozens of pagodas, temples and
lakes.
Myanmar travel could be extended all the way up to
Chittagong in
Bangladesh as it was during the British power over
India.
The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
Shwadagon
Pagoda
A magnificent Myanmar travel
spot is the
Shwedagon Pagoda in
Yangon, the pictures
here show the entrance to the pagoda platform during British
colonial times.
Travel Myanmar Burma Yangon
Entrance Shwedagon Pagoda 18 th Century
Travel Myanmar Burma Yangon
Shwedagon Pagoda
18 th Century
is the lifeline
of the Burmese people. It springs forth from
the
Himalayas coming down to two rivulets,
Mae Kha and Mali Kha (Myitsone) in the
Kachin State, in the far north. It runs from
north to south and
eventually emptying out
into the
Andaman Sea.
Ayeyarwady’s name has been curved in stone
inscriptions in the days of yore just as the
name
Myanmar is
mentioned in the same.
Ayeyarwady has fed
Myanmar's
with food and sustenance and has
witnessed the water -sheds
and landmarks of
Myanmar history all along
its colorful course.
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Myanmar Burma The
Irrawaddy River 17th Century
Travel Myanmar Burma
Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy
River
The road from
Yangon to
Mandalay is 693 km
long and is shorter than 935 km long river
way; and is longer than 617 km long
railway. The passage passes through
cultivated plains, green groves of trees and
glistening array of
pagodas and stupas.
Bago,
formerly known as Pegu and
Hanthawaddy. In Indakaw, there are rubber
plantations. The Kingdom of Hanthawaddy - Bago
was founded by two brothers, Thamala and
Wimala in the 9th century. In the 15th
century, only Myanmar Queen, Shin Saw Pu
reigned there.
Travel Myanmar Burma Bago Great
Shwethalyaung Buddha
Travel Myanmar Burma Bago Lake Monastery
In the following
century, King Bayinnaung, founder of the
Second Myanmar Empire and Conqueror of Ten
Directions held his court and unified the
whole Myanmar nation.
Famous pagodas here
are Shwemawdaw, Shwethalyaung (Reclining
Buddha) Mahazedi, Kyaikpun and Kalyani Sima.
The most imposing palace built by the great
King Bayinnaung was Kanbawzathadi Palace,
which is now rebuilt as before.
Myanmar
Travel,
Taungoo
Travel Myanmar Burma boys and buffalo
This is another old
city on the Myanmar travel route , 200 km from
Bago. It bestirred nostalgic
memories of Natshinnaung, warrior poet whose love
for lovely Princess Yazadatukalyar knew no bounds. A
notable spot nearby is Thandaung, a hill resort.
Nearby is the Mawchi Mines which produces tin and
wolfram. Famous products here are bananas, tea and
coffee.
Myanmar Travel,
Pyinmana
near the new capital of
Naypyidaw
Beyond is the Yezin dam and a complex of
teaching institutes on agriculture, animal husbandry
and forestry.
Myanmar Travel, Meikhtila
The rain is scarce here less than 125 cm a year.
There are no more paddy and rice fields but crops as
groundnuts, sesamum, beans and pulses are thriving
products.
Meikhtila Lake is well-known and
prominent. There are songs eulogizing peace and
beauty of the lake.
There is a nursey rhyme which runs:
“ Please pick up a small frog from
Lake Meikhtila,
If you have caught one,
Kindly offer me a small creature
with pouting small eyes and thin body.”
Meikhtila’s location is strategic. It is the point
of access to the Shan State in the east, with
Taungyi, its capital, 170 km away. To the west lies
Kyaukpadaung, where there are oilfields and the
Ayeyawady valley.
From
Meikhtila to
Mandalay it stretches 152 km. Before
reach in Mandalay, one will come across Kyaukse, the
ancient home and granary of Myanmar agriculture, the
rice bowl of successive Myanmar Kingdoms. Here,
famous
Bagan King Anawrahta started to build his
First Myanmar Empire that lasted more than two
centuries.
It is too well known to dwell at length about
Mandalay, the royal capital of the last two
Myanmar
Kings of Konbaung dynasty. It is the hub and
heartland of Myanmar culture, arts and crafts and
the seat of Theravada Buddhism. These culture
heritage still lingers.
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