20 Feb
Cooking Classes in Luang Prabang
Developed a taste for sticky rice? Some of Luang Prabang's best restaurants offer cooking classes sharing their kitchens' best-loved local recipes visitors...
20 Feb
Hot Air Ballooning / Gilding
While in Bagan, hot air ballooning provides a wonderful view of this ancient and wondrous city with all its temples and pagodas. “Balloons over Bagan” carries third party and passenger liability insurance through Lloyds of London, with a fully trained first aid team. Its head offices are in Yangon and at the The Bagan Hotel. Gliding is also rapidly gaining popularity in Myanmar with Taunggyi as the perfect place to go glide.
20 Feb
Wat That Luang
Legend has it that Wat That Luang was founded way, way back in the third century BC by visitors from India, but physical evidence from the temple site place its origins in the early 1800s...
20 Feb
Elephant Riding / Horse Riding
Visitors can go for elephant rides at the Hlawgar Zoological Park in Yangon. Horseback riding can also be done near the horse race track in Kyaikasan,Yangon as well as near Inle Lake and near Taunggyi.
20 Feb
Htilominlo temple
Htilomilo temple, which was built by King Nantaungmya in 1218, is a large temple located near to the road between Nyaung U and Bagan, about 1.5 km northeast of Bagan.The King built this temple to commemorate the place he was chosen as crown prince. This temple is 46 meters high and has three levels. Built with red brick, and similar in design to some other Myanmar temples, the Htilomilo has four Buddha images on the lower and upper floors that face each direction. he temple was damaged in the 1975 by an earthquake and then it has been repaired.
20 Feb
Nanpaya Temple
Nanpaya is a Hindu temple located in a village of the southern part of Bagan. Standing near the Manuha Temple, Nanpaya Temple is also one of the famous temples in Bagan. Considered as an 11th century temple, Nanpaya Temple is actually built from bricks and sandstones. Outside the temple, you can see many window and wall carvings. At the centre of the temple, there is a sanctuary with four stone pillars with sandstone bas-relief of orge head. According to the Myanmar legend, the face of the orge represents the guardian and eats flowers instead of meat.
20 Feb
Wat Aham
Next door to Wat Wisunalat, Wat Aham (Temple of the Opened Heart) is another sleepy temple that most tourists tend to bypass....
20 Feb
Manuha temple
Manuha Temple is a Buddhist temple which built in 1067 by the Mon’s King Manuha. It is one of the oldest temples in Myanmar which located on the right side of the main road going south from Bagan. There is a building which contains three images of seated Buddha and an image of Buddha entering Nirvana. The largest seated Buddha image is 46 feet high, with the right hand touching the earth. Two smaller Buddha images, each one is 33 feet high, flank this large image on each side.
20 Feb
Wat Wisunalat
Also known as Wat Visoun, this wat is named after King Wisunarat, the king whose reign it was constructed during, though the structure standing today is a replica of the one built in 1513...
20 Feb
Wat Mai
Wat Mai Suwannaphumaham, more simply known as Wat Mai (the New Monastery), is Luang Prabang's largest wat....
