Category: Myanmar

Bagan (Burmese: ပုဂံ) is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mandalay Region (မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး) of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, Bagan was the capital of the Bagan Kingdom.

Sulamani Temple (Burmese: စူဠာမဏိဘုရားကြီ) is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan (ပုဂံ), Mandalay Region (မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး), Burma. The temple was built in 1183 by King Narapatisithu (နရပတိ စည်သူ).

Ananda Temple (Burmese: အာနန္ဒာ ဘုရား) is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan, Myanmar. The temple has over 900 years of history, it is said to be an architectural wonder in a fusion of Mon and adopted Indian style of architecture, also known as “museum of stones”.

Ananda Temple (Burmese: အာနန္ဒာ ဘုရား) is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan, Myanmar. The temple has over 900 years of history, it is said to be an architectural wonder in a fusion of Mon and adopted Indian style of architecture, also a popular tourist attraction.

Bagan (Burmese: ပုဂံ) is an ancient city in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. During the reign of the Bagan Kingdom, Buddhist temples were constructed everywhere on the Bagan plains. Choimeizai will talk about Nathlaung Kyaung Temple.

Bagan (Burmese: ပုဂံ) is an ancient city in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. During the reign of the Bagan Kingdom, Buddhist temples were constructed everywhere on the Bagan plains. Choimeizai will talk about Thatbyinnyu Temple.

Bagan (Burmese: ပုဂံ) is an ancient city in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. During the reign of the Bagan Kingdom, Buddhist temples were constructed everywhere on the Bagan plains. Choimeizai will talk about Tharabha Gate and Pahtothamya Temple.

Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်), also known as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. The weather of Yangon is hot and humid, so the best time to walk around the city is in the early morning, the market is packed with locals.

Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်), also known as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Myanmar was a British colony before, there were many foreigners living here, but most of them had moved to other places after independence.

Mani Sithu Market (Burmese: မဏိစည်သူဈေး) is located in Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့), Mandalay Region, Myanmar. The market is Nyaung-U's main market and is quite close to Shwezigon Pagoda (ရွှေစည်းခုံဘုရား), a local morning market rather than tourist market.

Shwezigon Paya (Burmese: ရွှေစည်းခုံဘုရား) is a Buddhist stupa located in Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့), Myanmar. The pagoda has almost 1000 years of history and is deemed to be the prototype of Burmese stupas. Besides the golden stupa, there are many other things worth seeing.

Shwezigon Paya (Burmese: ရွှေစည်းခုံဘုရား) is a Buddhist stupa located in Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့), Myanmar. The construction of the Shwezigon Paya began during the reign of King Anawrahta (အနော်ရထာ, 1044–1077), the founder of the Bagan (ပုဂံ) Empire, and was completed in 1102, during the reign of his son King Kyansittha (ကျန်စစ်သား). Shwezigon Paya is deemed to be the prototype of Burmese stupas.

The Shwedagon Pagoda (Burmese: ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရာ), also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. Its height(112) and shiny appearance makes it the landmark of Yangon, even Myanmar, a place where tourists must visit when they go to Myanmar.