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info It lies 24km south of Kyaikkami and 16km southwest of Thanbyuzayut. Mon State. It is a very wide. brown-sand beach that tends toward tidal flats when the shallow surf-line recedes at low tide.
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info Mudon is a town in the Mon State in the southeast Myanmar. It is known for its large reclining Buddha.
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info It is one of the best known towns in Mon State. lt is said that it was once an insignificant village peopled by the Lawa. Later, Mon and Pa O came to settle and maritime intercourse with south Indian states brought about its development into a thriving city. However, there is another contention that it was the first city to be founded by the Mon people. Whatever it may have been, it served as the royal capital for a dynasty of 59 Mon kings.
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info The name of the town is taken from a not-too-long rest house roofed with galvanized iron standing near the marketplace. A war memorial here holds the graves of 3.770 British. Australian. Dutch and Gurkha prisoners-of-war who died while constructing the infamous "death railway" under supervision of Japanese forces during the Second World War.
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info Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda is located in Mon State. It is about 20kms from the town Kyaikhto. It is a 7.3 meters pagoda on top of a big "Golden Rock". The massive golden boulder is right on top of the Kyaikhto mountain.
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info Mawlamyaing is the capital city of the Mon State and a big trading centre of Myanmar. The city's population is about 300.000 and consists of Mon. Kayin. Bamar. Indians and some Chinese.