Myanmar Tours to visit Mysterious Golden Lands in Yangon Many travelers combine Indochina destinations to have a great mixture of culture, relaxation, beauty and uniqueness altogether in one region. Traveling from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to Myanmar on a direct flight to Burmese capital, Yangon, this is the starting point of almost any Myanmar tours , however, the city is widely known as the city of golden pagodas, as the plane came in to land, you wll see the huge golden roof and giant tower of Shwedagon Pagoda sparkling in the clear blue sky. Visible from almost anywhere in Yangon, this is one of Buddhism;s most sacred sites. Yangon in the late afternoon is mostly free from cars and motorbikes, with only buses and threewheel taxis making their journey through the burning hot streets. The sidewalks bustle with souvenir shops, clothing store, bookshops and home appliance shops and vendors selling betel and tobacco to locals.
Sightseeing in Yangon and around The first stop of is at the most famous Pagoda in town, there are a lot of tourist visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda. The grandiose Pagoda boasts a 325 ft zedi, adorned with 27 metric tons of gold leaf and thousands of diamonds and other precious gems. It is believed to enshrine eight hairs of the Gautama Buddha. Legend has it that a stupa has existed on Singuttara Hill for 2600 years, ever since two merchant brothers, Tapussa and Ballika, met the Buddha, He gave them eight of his hair to take back to Myanmar, a land ruled over by king Okkalapa which enshrined the hairs in a temple of gold. This temple then was enclosed within a temple of silver, then one of tin, then copper, then