Detail Itinerary ● Start your 11-hour Yangon tour experience with a ride on the circular train for the entire 3- hour urban loop. Stop to visit a lively local market and meet vendors. ● Get back on the train and head downtown for a lunch stop at a popular restaurant. Take a walk along the busy shop-lined streets, where vendors offer up everything from betel nuts to Burmese buns. ● Then continue to the central area of Yangon, where most of the colonial buildings are standing. Walk around this area to explore Yangon City Hall, Independence Monument, Sule Pagoda, former High Court Buildings, Telegraph Office and along the way you will see some street book stalls that sell the oldest books here. ● Visit to Shwedagon Pagoda, the most famous attraction of Yangon. As you visit the Pagoda in the late evening, you will experience an exceptional atmosphere, finding peace and calmness. The professional English speaking local guide will show you around of the hidden messages of the Pagoda and tell you more about the history. Please note that you need to take off your shoes if you enter the pagoda and walk around. ● Finish your day comfortably by enjoying a drink at one of Yangon's rooftop bars, offering great views of the city at night. (A transfer back to your hotel afterwards will be provided unless you would like to stay longer at the bar. In this case, a return transfer must be organized on your own.) ☑ ● English Guide ● Entrance Fees ● Train Ticket ☒ ● Personal expenses such as, visa fees, upgrade meals, alcohol. ● Medical and other personal travel insurances (*Please ask our office for details.) ● Tips for crew and resort staffs ● Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic beverages ● Hiking fee and Glass Kayak fee ● Mergui Archipelago Zone fees ● Any other transfers ● Any other services not mentioned above 1 Pax 2-5 Pax 6-10 11-16 17-22 23-30 78$ 53$ 37$ 33$ 31$ 31$ Yangon City Hall is the city hall of Yangon, Sule Pagoda is located in the center of the largest city of Burma, and the seat of Yangon at the junction of Sule Pagoda the city's administrative body, Yangon Road and Mahabandoola Road. City Development Committee (YCDC). Kyauktada Township Yangon Myanmar. The building is considered a fine example This 48 meter (152 feet) high golden dome of syncretic Burmese architecture, was used by the British as the nucleus of featuring traditional tiered roofs their grid pattern for the city when it was called pyatthat, and was designed by rebuilt in the 1880s. The pagoda's Burmese architect U Tin, who also peculiarity is its octagonal- shaped designed Station. Construction began in pagoda which retains its shape as it 1926 and ended in 1936.The city hall tapers to the spire. The Sule Pagoda is an occupies the former site of the Ripon Hall. excellent landmark. It is said to be over The city hall has been the focal point of 2000 years old. The pagoda is said to several major political demonstrations, enshrine a hair of the Buddha: its Mon including a 1964 People's Peace name. Kyaik Athok translates as "the Committee rally supported by Thakin pagoda where a Sacred Hair Relic is Kodaw Hmaing, which attracted 200,000 enshrined". It is surrounded by small shops people and was subsequently clamped and all the familiar non-religious services down by the Socialist regime and the site such as of astrologist palmists, and so on. of several bombings, including one in 2000, 2008, and 2009.Centrally located In the downtown area Sule Pagoda is a in downtown Yangon, it is next to several monument which most foreign visitors important landmarks such as Sule pass by unnoticed. But it is the only Pagoda, Maha Bandula Park, High Court, central piece of the capital like the Arc and the Main Post Office. de Triumph in Paris Fraser and others all decided to keep Sule Pagoda as the The building is listed on the Yangon City centre piece of Yangon because of its Heritage List. strategic location religious significance and artistic beauty. It can be reached through four entrances of the four stairways facing four cardinal directions or by two overhead bridges. Immanuel Baptist Church is in The High Court is one of Yangon’s most central Yangon at the corner of Mahar iconic colonial buildings. Pictured Bandoola Garden Street and Mahar overleaf with the Independence Bandoola Road opposite Yangon City Monument, it is an inescapable sight as Hall. The church is one of the you stroll downtown (or rather, weave oldest Baptist churches in Yangon. Built in through the fumes and traffic).Its 1885 by an American missionary, the architect, James Ransome (1865–1944), church was destroyed during World War was John Begg’s predecessor as II but rebuilt in 1952.Until 1965, the pastor Consulting Architect to the Government of the church was sent by the American of India. Certainly the building displays a Baptist International Ministries, which at generous dose of pomp. The impression is that time was called the American similar to the one conveyed by Jan Baptist Foreign Mission Society. One of Morris about the British colonial High the founders of that missionary Courts of India: she describes them as organisation was Adoniram Judson, who “very conscious of their own importance, lived in Burma from 1813 to his death in and into them the architects tried to 1850. The church is on the Yangon City build the loftiest meanings of empire”. Heritage List, a list of man-made The towers and loggia windows feature landmarks designated by the elaborate brick patterns. The cream- governmental Yangon City Development painted arches, rows of balconies and Committee. stuccowork echo Renaissance In the early 1960s over 90 percent of the architecture. (But this building is congregation were Burmese, including distinctive in its use of pale burgundy ethnically Anglo-Indian and Anglo- bricks, manufactured locally by the Burmese. construction company Bagchi & Co.) The park dates to 1867 to 1868, founded as Fytche Square in honour of the then Chief Commissioner of British Burma, Albert Fytche. The site was previously a vacant, swampy site originally known as Tank Square, which was cleared and laid out as a public recreation ground. A white marble statue of Queen Victoria was placed in the center of the park in 1896, gifted by a wealthy Armenian firm in Rangoon. Installed on 4 January, 1948 to commorate the Burmese Independence, the grand opening ceremony was held in 1950 by the first President of the Union Maha Bandula Park is a public park, of Myanmar and it was renovated in located in downtown Yangon, Burma. 2012. The park is bounded by Maha Bandula Garden Street in the east, Sule Pagoda Road in the west, Konthe Road in the south and Maha Bandula Road in the north, and is surrounded by some of the important buildings in the area such as the Sule Pagoda, the Yangon City Hall and the High Court. The park is named after General Maha Bandula who fought against the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824– 1826).The Independence Monument is located in the Maha Bandula Park facing the Yangon City Hall, and surrounded by two concentric circles of lion statues. Sule Pagoda next to it is commonly recongnized as the center point of Yangon City. after Bogyoke (General) Aung San. A new wing of the market was added across Bogyoke Market Road in the 1990s.The market structure is listed on the Yangon City Heritage List. The ground floor and the first floor are lined with small antique shops selling old coins, bank-notes, postage stamps and medals. In the middle of the market are jewellers, selling famous Burmese jade, Burmese rubies and other precious BogyokeAungSanMarket formerly (Scott's stones. The rest are art galleries, Market) is a major bazaar located handicraft shops, restaurants and clothes in Pabedantownship incentral Yangon, stores. The new wing of the market, Myanmar. Known for its colonial across Bogyoke Aung San Market Road, architecture and houses shops that sell medicine, inner cobblestone streets, the market is a foodstuffs, garments and foreign goods. major tourist destination, dominated The market is also known for its black by antique,Burmese handicraft and jewe market money changers, with jewellery llery shops, art galleries, and clothing merchants typically able to change the stores. Bogyoke Market is a popular largest notes at the best rates. The black market location to exchange market is closed on Mondays. The little currency. The market also has a number shabby shop called "Lady Home" at the of stores for local shoppers, selling back of the market behind the Jewellery medicine, foodstuffs, garments and Row, near the old wooden foot bridge foreign goods. crossing the old circle line train tracks, makes delicious fried noodles and vermicelli dishes. For the adventurous, try the pig organs (intestines, tongue, ears, etc.) boiled and fried and then tossed in fiery chilli sauce. Scott Market was built in 1926, late in the British rule of Myanmar, and although it is commonly believed to be named after James George Scott, the British civil servant who introduced football to Myanmar it is,actually named after the Municipal Commissioner of the time, Mr. Gavin Scott.[2] After Burmese independence in 1948, it was renamed Yangon Circular Railway is the local The former Government Telegraph commuter rail network that serves Office, now known as Myanmar Post the Yangon metropolitan area. and Telecommunications, was built Operated by Myanmar Railways, the between 1913 and 1917. Its architect 45.9-kilometre (28.5 mi) 39-station loop was John Begg, Consulting Architect to system connects satellite towns and the Government of India, who also built suburban areas to the city.