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Myanmar or Burma is a country in Southeast Asia. It lies along the Bay of Bengal. Mountains border Burma on the west, north, and east. They enclose the Irrawaddy River Valley.Myanmar is a place not only to see the social and culture of the peoples, but also the place to explore the nature environment beauty. It is a land of different nationalities and tribes, which has many plateaus to expedition the minority peoples and their own culture by trekking and hiking.
Myanmar has destinations of culture heritage, historical sites, archaeological zone, tradition and nature environment beauty, diversity of country sides and beaches
The Irrawaddy River empties into the Bay of Bengal through many mouths, forming a large delta. Rangoon, Burma's capital and largest city, lies on this delta.
Bago Myanmar
Myanmar Bago feels like an amusement park of fascinating Myanmar Buddhist religious sites. It's very easy to do a day strip to Bago from Yangon Myanmar, but shuttling from one site to the other makes it difficult to do any of them any justice. It's best to take your time and spend the night in Bago Myanmar. Although there's a lack of quality accommodation there, an early start to visit the Myanmar sites is probably the best idea. Bago is only about 8 km from Yangon, yet is just far enough off the beaten track to avoid many tourists. Bago Myanmar is like a clogged artery because the high way that passes through; buses slow to disgorge their passengers, and motorcycle and trishaw touts competing for your attention at Bago in Myanmar.
Kanbawzathadi Palace and Museum
The original site of Hanthawady, which surrounded a former Mon place, was excavated just south of the huge shwemawdaw Paya in Myanmar Bago. Walled in the Mon style, the square city measured 1.8 km along each side and has 20 gates. The palace compound in the centre, known as Kanbawzathadi, housed Myanmar King Bayinnaung from 1553 to 1599 and covered 82 hectares. About 26 hectares of this area have been excavated. The small, well stocked, octagon shaped museum displays Mon, Siamese and Myanmar Bagan style buddhas; clay tobacco pipes; glazed tiles and pots; bronze weights and scales; pieces of the original teak stockade; and weaponry.
Hintha Gon Paya
Located behind the Myanmar Bago Shwemawdaw pagoda, this shrine has good views over Myanmar Bago town from the roofed platform on the hilltop. According to Myanmar legend, this Myanmar Bago pagoda was the one point rising from the sea when the mythological bird landed here. A stature of the bird, looking rather like the figures on opium weights, tops the hill. This Myanmar stupa was built by U Khanti, the Burmese hermit monk who was also the architect of Myanmar Mandalay Hill. You can walk to it by taking the steps down the other side of the Shwemawdaw Paya from the main entrance.
Kyaik Pun Paya
There's something uncannily impressive about these four seated Myanmar Buddhas with regal gazes that seem to see all, about 1.5 km out of bago just off the Yangon road. Built in 1476 by Myanmar King Dhammazedi, it consists of four 30 m high sitting Myanmar Buddhas placed back to back around a huge, square pillar. According to Myanmar legend, four Mon sisters were connected with the construction of the Myanmar buddhas; it was said that if any of them should marry, one of the Myanmar buddhas would collapse. One of the four buddhas disintegrated in the 1930 earthquake, leaving only a brick outline. It has since been fully restored in Myanmar.
Maha Kalyani Sima
This Sacred hall of ordination was originally constructed in 1476 by Myanmar King Dhammazedi, the famous alchemist Myanmar king and son of Myanmar Queen Shinsawpu. It stands beside the road enroute from the triain station to the shwethalyaung in Myanmar Bago. Maha Kalyani Sima was the first of 397 similar sima, Myanmar king Dhammazedi built around Myanmar country, copying plans brought back from Sri Lanka. Philip De Brito, the renegade Portuguese adventurer, burnt it down in 1599 during his period of plunder, and during the sacking of Bago in 1757 it was destroyed once again. Subsenquently, it suffered from fires or quakes on the number of occasions before being leveled by the disastrous 1954 in Myanmar Bago. Next to the hall are 10 large tabltes with inscriptions in Pali and Mon. the hall itself features rows of tented arches around the outside, with an impressive separate cloister and marble floors in side. Niches along the inside upper walls contain 28 standing Myanmar Buddha images.
Shwe Google Paya
A little beyond Myanmar Mahazedi, this Myanmar Shwegugale zedi has dark go around the circumference of the cylindrical superstructure. The monument dates to 1494 and the reign of Myanmar king Byinnya Yan. Inside are 64 seated Myanmar Buddha figures. From here you can take a short cut back to the corner in the road, just before the shwethalyaung Myanmar Bago pagoda.
PYAY (PROME)
In Myanmar, Pyay is quiet, stupa-studded Myanmar Ayeyarwaddy river side town, 294km north of Yangon Myanmar. Pyay is at the cross roads for bumpy bus rides west to Ngapali Beach in Myanmar, and less bumpy bus rides north to Bagan main Myanmar tourist place. Over the years it's practically seen more archaeologists than travelers, due to the much-excavated ancient Pyu capital of Myanmar Thayekhittaya, 8km east. But Pyay can fill a good day, with the ruins, hilltop Myanmar pagodas the famous, lt at night, and a spectacled Buddha south town. Locals alternate the town's pronunciation between "pyay" and "pyi". The Brits, apparently, couldn't deal with the confusion so called it Prome in Myanmar.
