This is part of the Irrawaddy Delta.
Today this is a sleepy city, the last real active times was during the British colonial period when the harbor was used for their vessels on the way to India and Penang.
Driving from Yangon to the the west for Pathein (Bassein) and the coast is a interesting journey through the vast paddy-fields of the Irrawaddy Delta. Most people make this trip to spend the weekend at Chaungtha or Ngwe Saung Beach which are the best waterfronts to reach with the car from the main city.
The attack was to eliminate the stockades.
Along the Irrawaddy, the Warship H.M.S. Larne supported by transport ships Mercury, Heroine, Carron and Lotus on the 26th February, 1825.
Another river port the British built was in Moulmein (Mawlamyine), actually this was one of the few positive things they did in Burma. Do make the river navigable, introduced the train network and rebuilt Yangon. Unfortunately the local government did nothing afterwards most Myanmar is just the way as the British left after WW2, read more.
The most popular beaches of Yangon are two hours to the west from here, that is Ngwe Saung and Chaungtha Waterfront. This is a historic interesting area since many ships from the west came here first did some trading and carried the result on ox-carts to the former capital, read more.
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