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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Nagar Glass Factory

Nagar Glass Factory
Photo Credit -  Tanja Van De Linde
 

Getting around in Yangon

Getting around in Yangon
Public Transport in Yangon
 

Yangon's Heritage Buildings

Yangon's Heritage Buildings
Yangon's cityscape is utterly unique. Much of its colonial-era architecture remains standing and the city boasts one of Asia's most impressive collections of late nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century buildings, both religious and secular.
 

Kheng Hock Keong Chinese Temple

Kheng Hock Keong Chinese Temple
info Kheng Hock Keong Chinese Temple (ခိန့်ဟုတ် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဘုရားကျောင်း) is located on the corner of Sinn Oo Dan Street and Strand Road in Latha Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
 

Gems Museum

Gems Museum
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info The Myanma Gems Museum and Gems Mart (မြန်မာ့ ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ ပြခန်းနှင့် အရောင်းခန်းမ) is a four-storey building is situated at No.66, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Mayangon Township and very close to the Kaba Aye Pagoda.
 

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.
 

Dhamma Joti Meditation Center

Dhamma Joti Meditation Center
info Dhamma Joti Vipassana Meditation Centre (ဓမ္မဇောတိဝိပဿနာရိပ်သာ) was opened in October 1993 with Goenkaji and Mataji present for the first three courses. 
 

Rander House

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

Martyrs' Mausoleum

Martyrs' Mausoleum
info The Martyrs' Mausoleum (အာဇာနည်ဗိမာန်) is a memorable place of Myanmar National Leaders. 
 

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.
 

Strand Hotel

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

Dannyin Gone Golf Club

Dannyin Gone Golf Club
info Dannyin Gone Golf Club (also known as Yangon Golf Club (ရန်ကုန်ဂေါက်ကွင်း) ) in Yangon was founded in 1909.
 

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.
 

Maha Pasana Cave

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

National Health Museum

National Health Museum
info The National Health Museum is quite a small museum, educating children and the general public for health knowledge.
 

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.
 

Myanmar Railway Headquarters

Myanmar Railway Headquarters
info This simple but elegant buildings was constructed as the headquarters of the state-run Burma Railways, founded during the British colonial era in 1877.
 

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.
 

Karaweik Hall

Karaweik Hall
info The floating Karaweik (ကရဝိက်) Restaurant on Kandawgyi Lake (ကန်တော်ကြီးကန်) is one of the landmarks of Yangon.
 

Hnin Si Gone Home for Aged

Hnin Si Gone Home for Aged
info Hnin Si Gone Home for Aged (နှင်းဆီကုန်းဘိုးဘွားရိပ်သာကြီး) is located on Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Bahan 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.
 

Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda

Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda
info Koe Htat Gyi Pagoda (ကိုးထပ်ကြီးဘုရား) meaning the Nine Storey Buddha Image, is situated on the Bargayar Road, Sanchaung Township, Yangon.
 

Mel Lamu Pagoda

Mel Lamu Pagoda
info Mel Lamu (မယ်လမု) means Maid of the Mangrove.
 

Yangon International Airport

 Yangon International Airport
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Shwe San Daw Pagoda

Shwe San Daw Pagoda
info Shwe San Daw Pagoda (ရွှေဆံတော်ဘုရား) lies in Twantay, a small town nearby Yangon. 
 

Myanmar Port Authority Building

Myanmar Port Authority Building
info The uniquely preserved building of Myanmar Port Authority (မြန်မာ့ဆိပ်ကမ်းအာဏာပိုင်ရုံး) was built in 1920.
 

Zafar Shah Dargah (Tomb)

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

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.
 

Botahtaung Pagoda

Botahtaung Pagoda
info The Botahtaung Pagoda (ဗိုလ်တထောင်ဘုရား) is located on the Botahtaung Paya Road.
 

Bogyoke Aung San Museum

Bogyoke Aung San Museum
credit-www.shwemyanmar.info
info Bogyoke Aung San (ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်း) meaning General Aung San, was the hero who fought for the Independence of Myanmar.
 

Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple & Maha Say Wingaba

Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple & Maha Say Wingaba
info Ah Lain Nga Sint Temple or Maha Say Wingaba was Venerable Sayadaw’s (Monk) monastery where occultism was practised during his life time.
 

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