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-Yangon or Rangoon is the biggest city in Myanmar, with over 4 million
inhabitants at the last estimate. Located in the
Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy delta, surrounded by water on three
sides and hard hit by a cyclone nagis some
time ago.
Your approach
to Yangon and Myanmar will probably be
from
Bangkok to
Yangon or Singapore to Yangon. There are
also other flights to Yangon like from
Kuala Lumpur,
several cities from
China and
from the Indian subcontinent.
Yangon airport
has got a new international arrival and
departure terminal which looks good and
works good. The domestic terminal is still
the same.
From the
domestic terminal the state owned Myanma
Airlines and privately owned Yangon Air,
Air Mandalay and Bagan Air are operating.
From Yangon
Airport you can easily reach the center of
Yangon using the taxis waiting outside
the new airport building. You need to
negotiate the price, there are also
limousine counter inside the building, their
cars are substantial more expensive to go to
down town Yangon or elsewhere.
Just
outside the arrival
hall
are
some
counters
for
taxi
and
limousine.
Traveling
downtown
in a
good
taxi
or
limousines,
is
around
$
10,-.
A
cheaper
taxi
ride
to
Yangon
down
town
is
about
$
5,-
for
the
trip,
but
this
cheap
taxies
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usually are really rotten, just moving junk
and no aircon.
Amazingly
all
this
is
much better
organized
as
in
many
other
Asian
countries,
all
together
the
new
Yangon
or
Rangoon
airport
functions
quite
ok.
A hotel in Yangon
is easy to find and relatively cheap. In
general your holidays to Myanmar are not
expensive if you like. If you use lets say
the Central Hotel, right in the center of
Yangon you get a good room for about $ 30,-.
This
Yangon city hotel is just beside the Trader
Hotel which is the biggest hotel in Yangon.
The Yangon
Trader hotel charge from $ 40,- upwards.
Prices probably will rise since they managed
to get the UN personal to move to their
hotel from the Yangon International Hotel
where the UN staff was before. After the
cyclone nagis almost all prices of
hotels in Yangon
and other stuff got a steep push upwards
since the UN and NGO staff pay any price,
who cares about western taxpayers money who
finance all this finally, the all are still
in Yangon.
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Yangon or
Rangoon has
plenty of hotels for every taste and budget.
All kind of
entertainment is offered
in Yangon or Rangoon, from
the simple bar in one of the
Yangon or Rangoon hotels,
to karaoke lounges, nightclubs, discos,
marionette or puppet theater show , fashion show
-mainly in the nightclubs and discos- if you
are a single man traveling in Yangon or
Rangoon Myanmar
you can find a companion in one of the
nightclubs very easily.
There are several other good hotels in
Yangon like the
Kandawgyi Palace Hotel
at Kandawgyi Lake, this Yangon Hotel is
probably the most beautiful in Yangon and
very has a excellent location at the
Kandawgyi or Royal Lake.
The most expensive hotel in Yangon is the
Strand Hotel. During British colonial
times the Strand Yangon together with the
Oriental Hotel in
Bangkok were the best hotels in
the East. The problem with this Yangon Hotel
is the location, its Strand Road just along
the Yangon River Harbor where most of the
day the awful caravan of extremely stinking
trucks are doing their job. For
more
Yangon Hotels have a look here. A little bit off
north of the center of Yangon is Inya Lake
with the Inya Lake Hotel, a good hotel with
a great location on the lake. The biggest
problem with the Inya Lake Hotel is to get a
taxi. At the same road is one of the other
biggest hotels in Yangon, the
Sedona Hotel.
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Yangon
pagodas are
legend and the
Shwedagon Pagoda
is the top, a prime pilgrim destination in the
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world. In particular Buddhists from Korea, Japan
and China are on a pilgrim tour to Yangon
and the
Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Shwedagon
Pagoda
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A usual trip from Yangon could be
Yangon to Bago
and maybe Pathein, a bumpy ride to the
west of the Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady delta.
One or two hours to the west of Pathein are
the 2 most popular beaches for the people of
Yangon. You will get out of the city quite
quick since
Yangon traffic
is not so bad when you move through Yangon
city you will see a
Yangon market
almost every 100 meters.
Ngwe Saung
and
Chaungtha Beach,
a foreigner will probably prefer Ngwe Saung
Beach, its simply better. At Chaungtha Beach
the accommodations and other hotels are very
basic, actually the is only one excellent
hotel at Chaungtha Beach, this Max Hotel.
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Other places like
Ngapali Beach
are reachable via a flight from Yangon to Arakan or
Rakhine Division. Also
Mrauk U the
famous old pagoda city is in Arakan or
Rakhine Division. All flights to the
different destinations like Mandalay, Inle
Lake plus plus are operated from Yangon. The
biggest festival in Yangon is Thingyan or
Water Festival, there are also several
smaller festivals.
The time in
Yangon or Rangoon is Thailand time minus 30
minutes. The cheapest air fare for flights
to Yangon or Rangoon is offered by Air Asia, its
around Baht 6000,- for a round trip ways.
Beyond Rangoon or Yangon several flights to
many destinations are offered every day out
of Yangon or Rangoon airport, since domestic
routes beyond Rangoon or Yangon or
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all handled with small
aircraft, all below 100
passenger capacity it might
be difficult, especially in
the high Myanmar travel
season to get seats for your
Myanmar vacation trip if you
are on your own.
Myanmar travel and tourism in
general is quite good organized.
If you have
enough
time in Yangon or Rangoon take a boat tour
on Myanmar's mighty
Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy
river, a Yangon or Rangoon city tour
is also recommended.
-Visiting
Bogyoke Market, the premier bazaar in Myanmar and Yangon.
The famous
Bogyoke market or Scott market
is almost a must for everyone visiting
Myanmar. Bogyoke market is
the premier shopping complex in Myanmar.
Below
you can find Yangon pictures, Yangon photo and a combined
Yangon photo gallery.
Myanmar Yangon or Rangoon
has some
nightlife
and several night
clubs most of them are quite run down but
they always have plenty of nice
Yangon night
girls around.
Buying
jewels,
Ruby,
Jade,
precious stones
and
jewelry in Yangon is easy
and you get good precious and semi precious
stones and jade, they also have diamonds but
not on a scale like south Africa. The area to buy them is at
best around
Bogyoke Market
in Yangon center and the gem museum, a
30 minute taxi ride to the north of Yangon.
Bogyoke market
is also the best
place to change
money in
Yangon or Rangoon.
Several bigger
shops sell teak furniture in Yangon Myanmar,
if you want to go and have a look for
Myanmar Teak,
take the yellow pages from the hotel room
and have a look.
The Sedona hotel Rangoon or Yangon is one of
the bigger hotels you
can find photo here.
There are plenty of apartments in Yangon one
of them is golden hill apartments, other
apartment are here.
Yangon or Rangoon
old photos are here.
Yangon pagodas are
here. Myanmar has plenty of
Chinese influence and absorbed millions over
the years. Yangon Air is quite reliable use
them if you need a air flight in
Myanmar.
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We also have plenty of Yangon
photographs here.
To find
houses for sell in
Yangon have a look here.
Information on the all new international
Yangon airport and
view picture here.
Yangon is
a great
Asian City
visually
dominated
by the
Shwedagon
Pagoda
at Theingottara
Hill. The
Shwedagon Pagoda
in Yangon - Rangoon is the most vivid,
most beautiful and most vibrant pagoda on
this planet, at right are some Shwedagon Pagoda
pictures.
The
Shwedagon Pagoda is like a
volcano of gold rising up into the
dusty blue of the sky. The entrance
are
lined with shrines and monsters.
Streams of Toyota pick ups went
past, taking early morning
worshippers. A few of them were
disguised with a carnival decoration
of cardboard peacocks, and were
carrying boys, about to enter the
novitiate, to pray at the pagoda
before the ceremony began. The boys
wore expensive imitations of the old
Burmese court dress, with gilt
helmets and epaulets like sprouting
wings, and their attendants
struggled to hold golden umbrellas
over their heads.
Yangon
city is a real pagoda city for more
on
Yangon pagodas
look here.You will
find plenty
of hotels in
Yangon
to make your
Myanmar
travel a
great
experience.
The biggest
hotel in
Yangon is
the Trader
Hotel from
the
Shangri-La
group, the
hotel is
right in the
center of
Yangon,
about 5
minute walk
to the Sule
pagoda and
the same to
the Bogyoke
market,
Bogyoke
market
is the
premier
shopping
bazaar in
Yangon and
Myanmar.
Plenty of
Yangon City
attractions
wait on your
sightseeing
tour of
Yangon and
when you get
hungry after
a busy
travel day
plenty of
restaurants
are around
to get your
stomach
happy. But
be very
careful, the
hygienic
environment
is not very
up to date
in Yangon
and Myanmar
in general.
If you like
some fun,
maybe a
little show
together
with your
dinner have
a look here,
this is a
typical
Yangon
nightlife
restaurant,
a
alternative
would be,
among
others, to
have dinner
in the
Kandawgyi
Palace Hotel.
This Yangon
hotel has a
pretty
location
just on the Kandawgyi
Lake,
several
excellent
restaurants
and in one
of the
restaurants
there is
very
attractive
Myanmar
Dance
show, check
with your
hotel for
day and
time. The
Yangon Nikko
Hotel
is located
at the same
lake just a
little bit
further
down. We
uploaded a
Yangon video
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other- to
youtube and
you can
watch the
video here. |
Shwedagon
Pagoda
Platform
Yangon
Shwedagon Pagoda Hill during British
times
Shwedagon Pagoda Hill during British
colonial times
Rangoon
harbor and
Shwedagon
Pagoda 18
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Yangon road to Pegu - Bago Monsoon Time |
Yangon
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Yangon
Street Market selling snacks |
Yangon street vendors selling dried fish
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Yangon River
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Yangon River Ships
River Life
Yangon the last King of Myanmar or Burma on the
river.
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Yangon faces the Indian Ocean and is
served by the Yangon River, a part
of the Irrawaddy in the delta and was
visualized through the golden dome of
the Shwedagon pagoda, at colonial times
a mystic object of the golden East.
The Yangon river and further up the
Irrawaddy was navigable for bout
1300 km during British colonial times,
now maybe 100 km, because nobody takes
care about the shifting sandbanks. The
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady is the main
artery through which the life-blood of
Myanmar pulses.
Yangon
could be
a great city but actually there are
mega problems like the daily electricity
power cuts etc.
Last
time when I was in Yangon 20. Feb. 09
the power in a major downtown hotel
broke down every 10 minute between 7 and
12 pm, plus plus.
There was a time when the sea ran
into the coast of Myanmar or Burma
much farther than it does to-day ; when
ships anchored at Thaton, the earliest
capital of the south ; when Pegu – today
Bago, in later days a gorgeous and
magnificent city was almost itself a
seaport.
There was a time also when the sea
brought less to Myanmar - Burma and
took more than it is does today ;
Moreover, there was another city across
the Yangon River, a city which is now
forgotten, whose golden Myanmar is the true
golden Myanmar of the beginnings of Yangon or
Rangoon.
It was at Syriam that Yangon or
Rangoon, first came into being. It'
was the fame of Syriam which brought
colonialists form Portugal and England
to the mouth of the river on where
Yangon or Rangoon was built.
Syriam, according to the Myanmar or
Burmese legend, began its career as
a king's city 887 years before the birth
of Christ.
But cities depending on
kings are prone to lapse into
insignificance, and there is practically
nothing known of Syriam till the
discoveries of Vasco da Gama, opened the
gates of the East to the West and half
the galleons of Europe trimmed their
sails for the new El Dorado.
- Yangon city, even in constant
decline, still show some imperial
architecture.
Present day Yangon city was
built by the English colonialists
who didn't compromise with the East,
the result was wide, straight,
streets, with solid architecture of
vaguely Victorian inspiration. In Yangon one is
constantly being
taken back to London
100 years ago; while
down on the Yangon river front the
style is that of the London river
Customs House at that time. Within
these edifices, there is a gleaming
of dark woods and brass. Massive
columns rise |
Myanmar Trucks from
WW2 at streets of Yangon
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with shabby
dignity of Yangon
city. The main
thoroughfares have
incrustation of
stalls, and through
these European
arteries now courses
pure oriental blood
made from Toyotas
and still some world
war 2 or WW2 trucks
and buses remains
The streets of
Yangon, wallowing in sun with
strolling crowds, drums and gongs
set up outside on the pavement.
Still full world war 2 truck and
buses
Below you can find Yangon pictures, Yangon
photo and a combined
Yangon photo gallery. |
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The Yangon
River is administered by
the Port Authority which
controls and manages all
ship movements. Along runs
the Strand Road with the
famous
Strand Hotel
Yangon
or Rangoon on the other side
of the road. The area is always very
busy and large ocean-going
vessels (10 000 to 15
000 tons) are anchored
alongside the bank and in
midstream of the downtown
port area. Its a very
"stinky" area because of the
never ending truck traffic
and Myanmar trucks are
mostly very old, emitting
huge clouds of smoke.
Yangon City or Rangoon,
therefore, is the largest
seaport cum river port in
Myanmar. The Yangon or Rangoon port
stretches along the Yangon
or Rangoon River from Insein in its north-east
to Botathaung Township and
the mouth of the Pazundaung
Creek in the south-eastern
part of the city |
Yangon or Rangoon WW2 SUV at streets |
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Where
the Bago River
joins the Yangon River close to Thanlyin or
Syriam was in the
16.th. Century the base
of Philip de Brito a
Portuguese
adventurer who made it
from the kitchen boy of a Portuguese
trading vessel to a local warlord. In 1613
the King of Toungoo joined with the
King of Ava in an effort to destroy Nicote. A great army laid siege to Syriam
- close to today Yangon or Rangoon and
soon made Nicotes position quite desperate. One
of Nicotes officers changed sides,
they got Nicote and impaled him.
The
Yangon River flows southwards and
the murky waters empty into the Gulf of Martaban in the
Andaman Sea, a part of the Indian Ocean.
Along are more than ten
miles of wharves,
jetties, pontoons and
landing stages for every
type of river, coastal or
ocean ship. |
Ayeyarwady or
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A typical Yangon or
Rangoon Native Moorish
Style Building from
Colonial Times
Yangon or Rangoon red
brick yellow-trimmed old
building
Myanmar Supreme Court
Building at Yangon or
Rangoon
A typical Yangon city or
Rangoon downtown
apartment building
Victorian style building
Yangon city or Rangoon
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Plenty of British-colonial
times era houses and government
buildings, a legacy of
the British presence in Yangon or Rangoon ,
Burma or Myanmar,
these structures were built between the
mid-19th century and the outbreak of World
War II in 1940 are still
visible in Yangon or Rangoon
Myanmar. Together with many
beautiful Myanmar or Burma
lakes, Myanmar or Burma pagodas.
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Myanmar wouldn't
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visiting some new hotels in old,
renovated buildings like the
governors residence Yangon
and the
Savoy Hotel in Yangon or
Rangoon too give a distinctive
colonial touch you wont find
elsewhere.
Facing the Yangon City Hall across Maha
Bandoola Street is the Maha
Bandoola Park with the 150-foot
Independence Monument in the
centre. |
Savoy Hotel
Yangon |
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Facing the park on
the east is the Yangon Myanmar Supreme Court and
High Court Building. The red,
yellow-trimmed, Victorian-style building was
built between 1905 and 1911 at a cost of 2.45
million kyats.
The Yangon or Rangoon City
Hall catches the eye on the
north-east corner of the Sule
Pagoda Road and Maha Bandoola
Street. It is a stately building
designed by architect U Tin in
1925 and features Myanmar themes
and motifs.
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At the corner of
Yangon's Bo Kyaw and Kannar (Strand) Roads is the red
brick, yellow-trimmed General Post Office
Building with a Moorish style, arched
entrance.
A typical Yangon
or Rangoon city downtown apartment building
and a old villa from British
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Old
British
colonial
style
villa in
Yangon
city or
Rangoon
Myanmar |
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These
English- colonial style houses can be found
occupying shady, quiet compounds just a
short distance from the Yangon city downtown area. A
number of them can be viewed along
Taw-win and Dhammazedi Roads and in the
golden Valley, Bahan and Tamwe townships.
The architecture of government buildings is
characterized by masonry and brickwork,
pillars and columns, high ceilings,
balconies with intricate designs and fine
patterns and the ever-present porticos.
A bit to the
west is the well known Strand Hotel built in
1901. At one time the
Oriental Hotel in
Bangkok and the Strand Hotel in Rangoon were
the top Hotels in South East Asia.
Restored
and furbished with some modern-day
amenities, the Strand still retains
some
original fittings such as teak wainscoting,
ceiling fans, marble bathrooms, canopied
beds and Myanmar works of art, he problem
is, in front of the hotel runs one of Yangon
city busiest street where 24 hour extremely
stinking trucks move from the harbor back
and forward, not to count the other
extremely noisy traffic.
Other
interesting colonial-style buildings in
Yangon city are
the Yangon Railway Station with highly
ornate Myanmar traditional designs; the
Railway Office (formerly Burma Railways) of
red brick colonial architecture; the Bogyoke Aung San
Market Building and the Holy Trinity
Cathedral, all typical English colonial
style with red as the dominant color.
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Bogyoke Aung San Market Bazzar Yangon Myanma
Plenty of wood carved at Bogyoke Aung
San Market
Puppets or Marionettes Bogyoke Aung
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Shops and various items from the Bogyoke
Aung San Market in central
Yangon the premier bazaar in Yangon and
probably in whole Myanmar.
The right place
for the special
Myanmar souvenir you better bring
back home from your Myanmar trip.
Jewelry shops
offer famous
Myanmar ruby
and other jewelry, the little problem is,
style is rather old. You can find
pearls shops,
plenty of shops offering beautiful
jade items,
like jade bangles and jade rings.
Puppets or
Marionettes are very popular with tourists,
so is also all kind of wood carved items.
Yangon Shopping
for Snacks |
Famous Myanmar Ruby at Bogyoke Aung San Market
The cloth seller Bogyoke Aung San Market
Bazaar
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Pearl Beads necklace Bogyoke Aung San
Market Yangon |
Sexy wood carving Bogyoke Aung San
Market Yangon |
Jade Bangles Bogyoke Aung San Market
Yangon |
Lacquer Ware Bogyoke Aung San Market
Yangon |
Wood carved elephant Bogyoke Market |
Yangon street market Chilies pounded and
powdered |
Shopping Yangon bogyoke aung san or
Scott market |
Flower Street Market Yangon |
Yangon street market Onions and tamarind |
Fruits and vegetables on Yangon street
market |
Cloth at Bogyoke Aung San Market Yangon |
Yangon street market art paintings |
Yangon street market teak wood carved
mirror frame |
Tourmaline necklace at Bogyoke Aung San
Market Yangon |
Jade necklace at Bogyoke Aung San Market
Yangon |
Pearl necklace Bogyoke Aung San Market
Yangon |
Fashion Jewelry
Bogyoke Aung San Market Yangon |
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First came the Portuguese
and after the British, they had the same target
loot the country and oppress the
people of Myanmar or Burma. Most of the colonial
activities of this 2 countries were centered
around Yangon or Rangoon.
Actually the British
introduced the word Rangoon, Myanmar
people say Yangon. The British also had a second
center at Mandalay the capital at that time
in the center of Myanmar. The British came into Myanmar
and Yangon or Rangoon in the 19.th Century.
The Portuguese started their
activities in the first half of the 16.th
Century around Syriam very close to Yangon, Bago
-Pegu- and all the way down around the Gulf of
Martaban. The Portuguese also had
another stronghold at Arakan, today Rakhine,
the province on the Myanmar west coast near
today Bangladesh.
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Yangon Syriam Portuguese
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Yangon British Soldier Attack Stockades
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Yangon River at Syriam |
Yangon British Fleet Attack |
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Yangon British Fleet gathering prior to
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