Myanmar is a country of people with deep rooted custom and religion. For a westerner visiting Myanmar, there are a number of things that they need to observe. Some of the Myanmar etiquette rules may be strange for westerners. However, if you follow some simple rules, your stay in Myanmar will be happier. Myanmar (Burmese) …
If you ever sailed along the great river Irrawaddy (Ayarwaddy or Ayeyarwaddy), the largest and longest river in Myanmar, you would notice one thing. Life is almost as it was sixty years ago. Old wooden ships still run along the river as it was before the World War II. Workers carry rice sacks over their …
This is a favorite Burmese food. Originally from Chinese community in Myanmar, it has become a popular food in cities. Called “Wet-Thar-Dote-Htoe”, it literally means “Pork on Stick”. Various parts of the pig are cooked with soy-bean sauce and seasoning. The parts include carious internal organs like intestine, liver, kidney, spleen, heart, lungs, tongue as …
Have you ever heard about head basket? Well, we have in Chin Hills. Lets call it Chin head basket. It is a kind of basket that you carry by hanging around your head with a string. You don’t carry it by hand. The basket is quite a large one, big enough to carry a 5 …
Breakfast for many people in Myanmar is fried rice. Usually it is a mixture of cooked rice and other leftovers from the evening before. One or two egg is often stirred into the fried rice. Sometimes, some slices of fried Chinese pork sausage is added to it. Most usually, a kind of steamed beans sold …
If you ever want to visit Chin Hills, Mindat is the most convenient and easiest to reach town in Chin Hills. Situated in Southern part of Chin Hills, Mindat is a small but peaceful, beautiful and tranquil town. With a total population of nearly 10,000 people, it is considered a sizable town in Chin Hills. …
Yangon Directory – Perhaps the most famous directory in Myanmar, with thousands of business listings from Yangon (Rangoon). Searchable and free of charge. Mandalay Directory – A sibling directory of Yangon Directory, with thousands of business listings from Mandalay. Free of charge too. Myanmar Yellow Pages – An official yellow pages of Myanmar. Free. Myanmar …
Here are high resolution Myanmar Maps created my Myanmar blogger Nyi Lynn Seck. He requested some body to make all of them into a .rar file so that people can easily download these maps. These are free maps for non commercial purpose only. For commercial purpose, please contact the map author. He only finished the …
If you are looking for the ancient map of Yangon (Rangoon) during the colonial period, either for the research or academic purpose, or just for curiosity, here is the map of Yangon (Rangoon) in 1912. You can see that colonial Rangoon was quite small compared to current day Yangon. Nevertheless, the city plan remains essentially …
Here is what Rangoon (Yangon) was look like in 1914. Yes, this is not a photo, this is a map! An old map showing the area of then Rangoon. Royal lake is the Kandawgyi, and the area marked in yellow is the Cantonment. You can see that Rangoon then was just the downtown area and …