Traveling to enjoy beauty of Myanmar
February 23, 2010 - Posted in Asia, Holiday Tips, Traveler Tips
Status of a big city, Yangon is the main door to enter Myanmar. History records that, in the era of British rule of India first, this city is a center of trade and politics. The heart of Yangon decorated a temple named Sule Paya said to save the sacred hair of the Buddha. This temple is like the axis of the city, located in the center and shape of the roundabout, an appropriate starting point to start the adventure in Myanmar. A few miles north of town, we can find the Shwedagon Pagoda, which dominates the sky with a golden pagoda 98 meters tall. Founded before the tenth century, this pagoda had experienced several times due to the earthquake restoration before becoming icons of national pride in Burma. Hundreds of tourists and Buddhist pagodas visited regularly each week. Requirements to enter the pagoda, only one, which took off shoes or sandals. With so many mandatory visited pagodas, the shoes became the object of the most frequently released in Myanmar.
One of the most distinctive aspects of the local population is the use of longyi, a kind of sarong, by the men. Longyi defined as formal attire. While women’s beauty secret lies in Burma thanaka powder is applied on the forehead and cheeks in thick that it looked obvious.
If you have Ayutthaya Thailand, Myanmar has the ancient capital of Mandalay in Burma Kingdom. He stood against a small hill called Mandalay Hill. This area has changed a lot thanks to the increasing population of monks and citizens of Indian descent. One of the best activity here is to climb hundreds of stairs in the afternoon and looked at the slow spread of settlements into the darkness. Night in Mandalay not to be missed out without watching the show’s most famous local arts, puppet marionettes. The show featured a puppet dance a mastermind who controlled every part of the puppet moves, such as arms and heads, using several pieces of string. Below the stage, a number of musicians accompanying the puppet dance using traditional musical instruments. All the episodes recounted tales quoted from Ramayana story.
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