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Ngapali Beach Beauty Myanmar
 

Ngapali Beach Girl Myanmar
 

as pagodas and temples are at Mandalay and vicinity, such as Sagaing, Monywa, Mingun and Maymyo. Myanmar tour & travel agent can organize your Myanmar trip quickly. You can tour in Myanmar without any major problems, the problems on a Myanmar tour 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 tour 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 tour guide, he or she has most of the needed Myanmar tour 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 tour on your own.

Actually without a experienced Myanmar tour guide you probably miss about 50% of the interesting subjects. Remember Myanmar is different don't compare the country with Thailand or Malaysia.

All tour to Myanmar beaches is via road, the only exception is Ngapali Beach, road tour in Myanmar is extremely time consuming because of the above mentioned problems.

As usual this has a other component, if you do Myanmar road tour it will give you a incredible experience about the countryside which you wont get in any other way, in particular tour 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 tour Myanmar according to your plan.

The driver will bring you anywhere you like, don't try to do your Myanmar tour on your own by renting a car and drive yourself.

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 tour journey.

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 tour 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 tour 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, Mandalay and elsewhere, from Yangon it's a distance of around 683 kilometers.

Buses make the trip in about 16 hours or an adventurous tourer can reduce the time by 2 hours by taking a car provided the traveler can take the stress and strain of tour 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.

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 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.

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.

- The Shite-thaung Temple
 
a great Myanmar tour 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 commemoratethe 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.

This beautiful Myanmar tour 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 tour could be extended all the way up to

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon

Shwadagon Pagoda

- Myanmar Tour, the Ayeyarwady  or Irrawaddy River

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 golden Myanmar all along its colorful course.
Tour Myanmar Burma The Irrawaddy River 17th Century

Tour Myanmar Burma Bago Great Shwethalyaung Buddha

Tour Myanmar Burma Bago Lake Monastery

She was noted for her renovation of the Shwedagon pagoda of Yangon.

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 Tour, Taungoo

This is another old city on the Myanmar tour 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 Tour, 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 Tour, 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:

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.