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Myanmar Tour Destinations
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Destinations
In Myanmar
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Yangon and Around
Before being made
the Capital of Burma
by the British
Colonialists, Yangon
in former times was
a fishing village of
little importance, a
mere jumble of
thatched huts. Today
the town is also
famous for being
Asia´s Garden City.
Downtown Yangon is a
jewel of Colonial
Architecture – but
alas this jewel is
increasingly losing
its splendour partly
due to the
encroachment of
contemporary
building on
traditional sites.
Historical Rangoon –
as the city was once
called – was
designed by the same
Englishman who did
the urban planning
for Singapore´s long
vanished Colonial
Quarter.......
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Mandalay and Around
The centre of arid
Upper Burma,
Mandalay is the
country´s 2nd
largest city and has
approximately 1,2
million inhabitants.
The restoration of
the legendary “Burma
Road” a few years
ago (linking
Mandalay via Lashio
with Yunnan in
southern China) made
the city on the
Ayeyarwady river a
recent boom town.
How different the
situation in the
year 1886 which saw
the end of Burma´s
traditional dynastic
society. Having
defeated the Burmese
a third and last
time during their
enduring
hostilities, the
British dethroned
King Thibaw and
exiled the
unfortunate monarch
and his entourage to
India......
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Bagan and Around
This is “the”
highlight of any
journey to and
through Burma.
Unforgettable Bagan
is one of the
world´s biggest and
most important
sacred venues
encompassing, at one
time (as also
reported by Marco
Polo) there have
been 12000 temples
and pagodas on a
territory of only 40
square km! With the
advent of the 11th
century and till the
end of the 13th
century, kings,
generals and
dignitaries spared
no effort to have
brick put upon
brick, to built
temples and pagodas
one after the other
with the solitary
aim of favourably
influencing their
re-incarnation......
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Inle Lake and Around
Most Myanmar
programs include a
visit to lovely Lake
Inle. Heho, the
small airport, is
the gate to this
idyll. Sandwiched
between two parallel
mountain ranges,
Lake Inle is
Myanmar´s second
largest lake and
home to several of
its peoples. The
Shan plateau (1000 m
above sea level)
with its mild
climate has
attracted Intha, Pao,
Palaung, Danu and –
above all – Shan
peoples. They live
as small farmers in
hamlets planting and
harvesting rice and
sesame seed as well
as building little
white Buddha pagodas
to enhance
re-incarnation......
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Shan State and
Around
Nearly a quarter of
Myanmar´s
geographical area is
occupied by the Shan
State. This elevated
land (up to 1000 m
above sea level)
forms a geological
bridge to Thailands
Northwest. Shan
State is structured
by mountains up to
2000 m high and
divided into a North
and a South portion
by Thanlwin (Salween)
River. Half of the
people are ethnic
Shan, living in the
valleys of Salween
River. Despite the
altitude, Shan State
is still well suited
for cultivation of
paddy rice, but the
crop flourishing
especially at high
elevation is papaver
somniferum, the
poppy for opium
production......
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Rakhine State and
Around
Sittwe, called Akyab
by the Bengalese and
Saitway by the
Arakanese, is and
has always been an
important entrepot
on the way to the
Indian Subcontinent.
Situated where the
mighty Kaladan
enters the Gulf of
Bengal, Sittwe
always benefited
from its favourable
geographical
position. At the
dawn of the British
Colonial Empire,
Sittwe profited from
the trade with
Chittagong (and on
to Calcutta) and
thus became quite
important. Today not
much is left of its
Golden Age. However,
Sittwe is the gate
to Mrauk Oo and also
the gate to the
beaches of Ngapali.
Accommodation in
Sittwe has medium
standards......
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Nothern Part Of
Myanmar
The North of Myanmar
is not yet a top
tourist destination,
but in this area
SunBird also has
been a pioneer: 10
years ago the first
group tour,
worldwide, has been
arranged from
Kunming, capital of
Chinese Yunnan, to
Lashio in Western
Shan State and
further on to
Mandalay. The North
is up to now a
territory for those
tourists counting
comfort not a top
priority for
travelling.
Myitkyina, the
capital of Kachin
State, the huge
Indawgyi Lake,
Myitsone and Hopin
are still (almost)
white areas on the
map of international
tourism.....
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