Yangon

(formerly Rangoon)

Age: 2500 years
Area: 576 km²
Population: 4,082,000
Location: Latitude: 16°48' N, 96°9' E
Temperature: Min 16 'C - Max 34 'C


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Thanlyin: Across the river and a world away from Yangon

Thanlyin: Across the river and a world away from Yangon
 

Yangon Chinatown

Yangon Chinatown
The Chinatown (တရုတ်တန်း) of Yangon lies at the west of the Sule Pagoda which is located in the centre of downtown Yangon.
 

Shwe Dagon Pagoda

Shwe Dagon Pagoda
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info In the capital city of Yangon, you will can see the magnificent fabulous Shwedagon Pagoda (ရွှေတိဂုံဘုရား) from almost anywhere.
 

Kandawgyi Garden and Kandawgyi Lake

Kandawgyi Garden and Kandawgyi Lake
info Kandawgyi Garden or Kandawgyi Nature Park (ကန်တော်ကြီး) is a popular recreation centre of the capital of Yangon.
 

Entertainment in Yangon

Entertainment in Yangon
Television Stations
 

Sule Pagoda

Sule Pagoda
info The Sule Pagoda (ဆူးလေဘုရား) is a well-known landmark, located at the heart of Yangon, in downtown.
 

U Do Golf Club

U Do Golf Club
info U Do Golf Club is located in Taikkyi Township, Yangon Region. Just about 2-hour drive from Yangon, it is an ideal place for eating out, fishing, boating and bird watching.
 

Myanmar Amber Museum

Myanmar Amber Museum
Photo Credit - www.myanmarambermuseum.org
 

Yangon City Hall

Yangon City Hall
info Centrally located in downtown Yangon. The Yangon City Hall (ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ခန်းမ) building is considered to be a fine example of Myanmar architecture.
 

11 Things to do in Yangon

Yangon is a great city, and what I love so much about it is that it’s always full of action, people are extremely friendly, there are many different types of food and street food to try, and it’s just such a vibrant, always entertaining city. Hope you can visit Yangon!
 

Immanuel Baptist Church

Immanuel Baptist Church
info Immanuel Baptist Church (ဧမာနွေလ ဘုရားကျောင်း) is located in the center of Yagon just next to the Maha bandoola Garden near city hall.
 

Central Post Office

Central Post Office
info This building was constructed in 1908 as the headquarters of one of colonial Burma's major rice traders, Bulloch Brothers & Co., a Scottish firm headquartered in Glasgow.
 

St. Mary’s Cathedral

 
St. Mary’s Cathedral
info St. Mary’s Cathedral (စိန့်မယ်ရီဘုရားကျောင်း) is situated on a 15 acres of land on Bo Aung Kyaw Street in Botahtaung Township, Yangon.
 

Bogyoke Aung San Park

Bogyoke Aung San Park
 
info Bogyoke Aung San Park is popularly known as Bogyoke Park (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ပန်းခြံ), which is a small charming park located on the north side of the Kandawgyi Lake (ကန်တော်ကြီး) surrounded by lush green trees.
 

Inya Lake

Inya Lake
info Inya Lake (အင်းယားကန်) is the largest lake in Yangon, Myanmar.
 

Oh-Bo Pottery Sheds

Oh-Bo Pottery Sheds
info The pots are made in huge thatch-roofed sheds. Oh-Bo district is located at the south of Twantay canal, about 15 minutes walk from the dock.
 

Ngar Htat Gyi Buddha Image

Ngar Htat Gyi Buddha Image
info Ngar Htat Gyi Pagoda (ငါးထပ်ကြီးဘုရားကြီး), also known as the "five-storey Buddha" is located across the Chauk Htat Gyi Buddha Image.
 

Sri Kali Temple

Sri Kali Temple
info Sri Kali Temple is one of the most richly decorated Hindu temples with the impressive stone sculptures and carvings of Hindu gods around around its colourful roof.
 

Zafar Shah Dargah (Tomb)

Zafar Shah Dargah (Tomb)
info The Tomb is situated near the southern stairway of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
 

Maha Pasana Cave

Maha Pasana Cave
info Maha Pasana Cave (မဟာပါသာဏလှိုင်ဂူသိမ်တော်ကြီး) is a huge man-made cave, 455ft (139m) in length, 375ft (114m) wide.
 

Allied War Memorial

Allied War Memorial
info The Allied War Memorial Cemetery (also known as Taukkyan War Cemetry or Htauk Kyant War Memorial Cemetry (ထောက်ကြံ့ စစ်သင်္ချိုင်း) ) is located at Htauk Kyant, Mingaladon Township, 32km from Yangon, on the way to Bago. It was built in 1951 and it is a memorial cemetery of the Allied soldiers who died in the Myanmar Campaign during World War II.
 

The Tejoomal Building

The Tejoomal Building
This delightful building was once the magical setting of the so-called Old Curiosity Shop of the East, an emporium of oriental curios stocked with silverware, silks, carpets, carvings, and exotic souvenirs from across Asia.
 

Strand Hotel

Strand Hotel
info The Strand Hotel (ကမ်းနားလမ်း ဟိုတယ်) is a Victorian-style hotel located in Yangon.
 

Shopping in Yangon

Shopping in Yangon
 
The main tourist destination in Yangon is the Bogyoke Market, where most of the Myanmmar made souvenirs are available.
 

Nagar Glass Factory

Nagar Glass Factory
Photo Credit -  Tanja Van De Linde
 

Kyauktan

Kyauktan
Kyaik Hmaw Wun Pagoda (or also known as Kyauktan Yele Pagoda)
 

Kyaikkasan Pagoda

Kyaikkasan Pagoda
info Kyaikkasan Pagoda (ကျို​က္က​စံ ဆံ​တော်​ရှင်စေတီ​တော်) is located in Thingangyun Township, Yangon.
 

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda
info Kyauktawgyi Pagoda (ကျောက်တော်ကြီးဘုရား) houses one of the biggest marble Buddha Images in Myanmar with a height of 37ft (11m), a width of 24ft (7m) and a weight of over 600 tonnes.
 

Pan Hlaing Golf Club

Pan Hlaing Golf Club
info Pan Hlaing Golf Club (ပန်းလှိုင်ဂေါက်ကွင်း) is a newly established golf club located at a beautiful junction between Hlaing and Pan Hlaing Rivers.
 

Rander House

Rander House
info Rander House is unusual for its simple American Classical style, reminiscent of downtown Chicago.
 

Yangon Customs House

Yangon Customs House
info The Customs House (အကောက်ခွန်ဦးစီးဌာန) is located along the Strand Road where most colonial buildings stand today as colonial heritage sites. 
 

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