Myanmar Tourist Guides — Attractions
City - Mandalay:
Second capital after Rangoon, has world’s largest stone book situated in the compound of the ‘Kuthodaw Pagoda’ where Buddhist scriptures are inscribed on 729 stone slabs. The delicate tapestry works, stone sculpture, the time-honored art of gold leaf home industry is definitely worth a visit.
Bagan is known as ‘temple fairyland’, 2300 out of 13000 Buddhist monuments exist here. Mt.Popa is just an hour’s drive from Bagan and situated on hilltop, it is a very popular site for pilgrimage.
River Cruising is the Ayeyarwady River along the famous ‘Road To Mandalay’ route in the luxurious Orient-Express Cruise liner, a riverboat. Other interesting points of attraction are Inte lake, Mrauk, Sagaing hills, Amarapara, Taunggyi, Pindaya, Mon state.
Situated about 180 km from Rangoon is the unquestionable wonder of Myanmar, the Golden Rock Pagoda. The pagoda is positioned on a gold gilded boulder precariously balanced on the edge of stone rock in the top of Kyaikhto Mountain. It is believed to enshrine three scared strengths of Buddha’s hair.
