Burma holiday beaches mountains travel in Myanmar plus shopping: Yangon City Beat

Travel to Myanmar start at the Airport, harbor or land-crossing.

The biggest city and harbor is Yangon is the undisputed center of the country although they try to move substantial operations to the new capital which is Naypyidaw but it's quite a dead end.

Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most famous in the country. Every day pilgrim come from everywhere in the country and other countries to pay respect or are just curious what's up here and get a real surprise since this is huge, read more.

Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most famous in the country. Every day pilgrim come from everywhere in the country and other countries to pay respect or are just curious what's up here and get a real surprise since this is huge, read more.

Yangon city and Shwedagon Pagoda at the lake

Yangon City is the real capital although the government has been transferred to Naypyidaw. Here is Kandawgyi Lake with the Shwedagon Pagoda on the hill. This is a popular spot for a day trip.

There is a park around with a boardwalk along the water everything is made orderly and solid it is a real positive view after all this "helter skelter" from Bangkok. People here take things more serious as the flimsy stuff beyond the eastern border.

Anawrahta Street is the main road from east to west. There are a couple of interesting old structure still from colonial times which the British built when they renovated the city. A very busy and interesting environment, actually it rather looks like Calcutta and not South East Asia. Also many owner are from Indian and Pakistan origin. That's the place to go when searching searching for anything not tourist and jewelry related,

Unfortunately all this is totally rotten, it was just left life this when they run away back to their island.

But since a bout 2 years (today is 2015) there are many attempts to get the city into better condition. The most visible renovation currently are done at the old railway building across the Sule Shangri-La Hotel, read more.

A Chinatown without Chinese letters is rather strange in this world but this part of the city and the Indian dominated area to the east is where the real city beat can be experienced, read more.

Beside of totally Chinese dominated places in the region such as Singapore there are other with a great ones such as "Kuala Lumpur Chinatown".

Bogyoke Market & Yangon Shopping, this great oriental bazaar is a must visit, most travelers wont believe what is available there. Almost all gem treasures of the east are available, read more.

Hotels & Resorts mushroomed in resent years and prices tripled for a good deal take our hotel search powered by bookings.com below left.

On the accommodation front are great things on the way not only to do it is really amazing to see all this huge properties raising up in Yangon center of the city.

Mahabadoola Park, Independence Monument and more.

Maha Bandoola Park is the center with the city hall and central court plus city hall and Sule Pagoda. The park is a green opening without stinking buses, a bit further down is the Yangon River, with ferries to Dala, read more.

Old Yangon is probably the most interesting destination after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Bogyoke Market because here the real colonial smell is still existent by any means and visual appearance, read more.

Yangon City Streets are still old British style arteries but now pure oriental blood made of Toyota's homemade cars and plenty remains of WW2 jeeps, trucks and buses, street markets are lining the roads, read more,

Sule Pagoda was designated by the British when they built up the city, looks nice from outside but thats it. They even want $ 5,- entrance, people say the stupa is about two thousand years old which there is no evidence for this are old myths. The British made it the center when they rebuilt the city. The whole setting around is beautiful the only negative are the stinking buses driving around, one intersection further north is Anawratha Road, the main street of the town, read more.

Actually there is no Mosque, Hindu or Taoist Temple Church or whatever in the country where they ask a entrance fee and to visit the Shwedagon cost even more. It is not the amount asked it is the subject "per se" that a few people try to make money from foreigners with Lord Buddha.

Yangon Nightlife with girls at JJ Entertainment

Nightlife is slowly becoming a good one they have real bars and nightclubs plus myriads of restaurants and pretty nightlife Burmese Girls it's amazing and most of them are quite pretty and positive thinking, read more.

Yangon International Airport departure lounge

The Airport is the biggest in the country after Mandalay and most international flights land here. Most visitors to Myanmar (Burma) come through Mingaladon at the northern end of town which was modernized a few years ago and works almost perfect. They only do the same mistake as in Bangkok many immigration counter are no staffed which leads to long waiting lines, they also have good connections to everywhere in the Burma, read more.

In between a bit to the north is famous Kandawgyi Lake with this great hotel right on the shore.

Yangon Walk let us guide you through a casual walk we visualize you the city in a way nobody else is doing among other with quality pictures, read more.

Yangon to Bago by Car is one of the best shorts trips into the vicinity because on the way and beyond are great Buddhist pagodas and temples to visit, read more.

The second largest urban are is Mandalay which is slowly becoming a busy Asian tourist destination since this is one of the very places left where old colonial times can still experienced from any perspective. Everything was locked up for decades and is only opening now but the center of upper Burma is slowly taken over by Chinese people who settle there and around by millions, read more.

Anawrahta Street the main through roads are full with stinking buses and small trucks that carry the people back and forward.

Almost all roads have incrustation of stalls and the people do their business just at the boardwalk, repairing shoes, cutting textiles and eating local style fast food the Botataung pagoda is at the south side of the port.

Old Yangon in style such as the old railway station, a beautiful brick building from colonial times.

There are some indications of renovation (2015) that could be a big challenge probably the best would be to encourage the business community to give donations for that or invent some tax.

Absolute highlights in the very center are the old colonial style buildings the British left here is the old railway station right opposite the Shangri-La Sule Hotel and Bogyoke Market.

Here is a short walk through Yangon's Anawrahta Street.

There are colorful flower markets along Anawrahta Road with tropical and tempered flowers, fruits and vegetables, meat and all kind of items for the daily life plus myriads of shops selling all everything from cameras, watches, software, pharmaceutical products which are mostly imported, except traditional medicines.

Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most famous in the country. Every day pilgrim come from everywhere in the country and other countries to pay respect or are just curious what's up here and get a real surprise since this is huge, read more.

Some Yangon Pictures.

Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most famous in the country. Every day pilgrim come from everywhere in the country and other countries to pay respect or are just curious what's up here and get a real surprise since this is huge, read more.