Nyaung U is the stop off point for travellers arriving by air, rail or river craft to visit nearby Bagan. The market at Nyaung U is a combination of a wet bazaar for locals and a souvenir and crafts market for tourists.
Yangon Division
Yangon has a lush, park-like and tranquil atmosphere as soon as one leaves the relatively small downtown area. The gently hilly city was once a small fishing village but renowned as the site of the Shwedagon Pagoda
Entertainment
Myanmar, a melting pot of culture, has no shortage of traditional and international style entertainment. There are a number of traditional performing arts shows in major destinations including Yangon, Mandalay and Bagan.
Foods&Drink
Myanmar food culture is about sharing; not only giving feasts for hundreds of people on special occasions but sharing food everyday with co-workers or co-students, taking a bit from each other’s lunch boxes.
Myanmar is a vast, beautiful country that still retains a greater part of its traditional values and culture. Visitors to the country are amazed to discover its wealth of culture, pristine nature, sincerely friendly people and their great pagodas.The people are deeply religious and live in harmony with the way of life for most of the population is based upon Theravada Buddhism which shows the path to harmonious living, and to avoid greed and attachment of material things. The people are deeply rooted in their beliefs and culture, and it is by those two things that they are driven in their daily lives and how they view the world, for their cultural values take precedent over desire for material wealth... Read More
A Brief History
Scholars believe that the Myanmar people are descendents of Tibeto-Burman migrants who entered the land that was to become Myanmar from the northwest; as well as Mon-Khmer people who entered from the southeast. However, the discovery in central Myanmar of the fossilized jawbones of Amphipithecus bahinensis suggests the inhabitants may have evolved from primate ancestors who were already in situ... Read More
