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20 Exposure
Bornze Casting
30 In Focus Myanmar Plaza: A one-stop shop for Sunday pleasures
In this issue... snapshots
8 The old Myanmar arts: Master artist U Kyar Nyunt 10 Spectator Sports: Traditional boxing 12 Religion: A brief on Buddhist Lent 14 Language: Ordinal Numbers
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16 Festival: Waso festival 17 Calendar
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20 Bornze Casting
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36 Than Lwin Inn : A cozy guesthouse in a great location 42 Kitchen Confidential: Grilled Eggplant Salad (Kha Yan Thee Mee, Hpoke Thoke)
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Ma Thanegi Ma Thanegi writes prolifically about Myanmar, especially the people who are the country’s true representatives. She lives in Yangon.
Mohana Gill Mohanna Gill is passionate about promoting Myanmar cuisine, culture and customs to the world and is a five-time World Cookbook Gourmand Award winner. She was born in Myanmar and lives in Malaysia.
Lyndal Pearce Lyndal first made Yangon her home 18 years ago. She is a researcher, writer and editor who loves travelling with her family and showing her two sons new places in Myanmar and around the world.
Natty Tangmeesang Natty is a PR Public Relations not yet a Permanent Resident who fell in love with Myanmar several years and recently relocated here. She enjoys eating, talking to new people, and exploring Myanmar. People usually say “Natty is everywhere in Yangon.”
Noe Noe Aung Noe Noe is a Yangon native who has worked as a journalist at The Myanmar Times for five years. Finally, she decides to spend her life as a travel writer. Noe Noe is interested in people and their stories. Her sense of curiosity drives her to explore new places and she also loves to share what she experiences.
Jared Downing Jared Downing (@keystrokeerrors) is an American journalist from Colorado and Alabama. He likes podcasts, radio theatre and hitchhiking and collects cans of sardines from around the world. He blogs at http://sardines.fish.
Lwin Ko Taik A Myanmar native and a freelance photographer with an incurable yearning for travel, Lwin Ko Taik takes spectacular photos on his journeys. When he is not on the move, he produces outstanding photos in fashion and for wedding shoots as well as for NOW magazine and The Myanmar Times.
Htun Khaing Htun Khaing, a reporter works for Frontier Myanmar, has been working as a journalist since 2010. He worked for local Media including 7 Day news and Pyi Myanmar. Mostly he covered about current and political issues in feature style.
Lwin Mar Htun Lwin Mar Htun is a Journalist who worked as Lifestyle Reporter for three years at The Myanmar Times. Then, she worked as a freelance and shifted to Fashion Editor. At the end, she decides to learn about of new places, people and cultures as a travel writer. She is interested in stories of people and she wants to share with the readers what she experiences.
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Publisher’s note... Dear Readers....... One minute, you are enjoying the golden sunshine and the next, you begin to wonder if the rain would ever stop as it pours and pours as if to wash off all the dirt from our planet. I prefer to call the Myanmar Monsoon ‘a season of hope’ because we hope for sunshine when it won’t stop raining and we hope for rain when the dazzling sun generates too much heat. Rain or shine, we do our best to bring you insightful articles and colorful photos of the social life and culture of Myanmar. While Myanmar is a land of diverse races and religion, with pagodas, Hindu temples, churches and mosques in the same neighborhood, the majority of the population is Buddhists. For them this is an important month because the three months’ of the Buddhist Lent called “Wah-dwin” begins. In this issue, you can get a glimpse on what it means and how it is celebrated. In the Exposure section, you will see amazing photos of the traditional bronze casting techniques, an ancient craft inseparable from our Buddhist traditions. On weekends, I understand if you would rathey stay home warm and dry, watching TV or reading a book. However, if you ever feel like going out, then there’s a place you will enjoy. Myanmar Plaza on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road gives you everything you need whether you want some fresh vegs, branded clothes and shoes or a relaxing message. Spending some time there alone or with your buddies can make you feel energized again. I hope you will enjoy this month’s issues and look forward to our next, which we are determined will be a better one.
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Snapshots culture The Old Myanmar Arts:
Master artist
U Kyar Nyunt By Ma Thanegi
T
he first known Burmese painter whose works survive to this day is U Kyar Nyunt, court artist who served the last two kings of Myanmar King Mindon (r. 1853-1878) and his son King Thibaw (r. 1878-1885). With an elegant name meaning ‘Tendril of a Lotus’ he was believed born in 1844, but no records are left of where he came from. Considering the fact that he passed away at age 36 he was probably still a young boy with impressive talent when he was accepted as an apprentice to the royal art master. U Kyar Nyunt probably met a few foreign artists who visited Mandalay and his works showed attempts at using line and colour perspective, techniques not used in classical painting. He was one of a team of 17 artists but he soon rose to the rank of master, considered good enough to do the recording of Court Ceremonies or Jataka stories on the parabeik folding books. From that period, there were also records of contemporary events on the folding books complete with drawings, including such rare phenomena as the sighting of mermaids, a calf born with two heads, or the gift of a giraffe from a foreign emissary. These ‘news bulletins’ possibly were circulated at court, but they were drawn by lesser members of the team and not by the master himself. Old Myanmar art could be seen on pagoda walls and etched on lacquer wares, but there was no tradition of painting on silk scrolls. If there were paintings done on silk or thin
cotton then none survived from before the 19th century. Handmade paper produced from mulberry tree bark was a product of the Shans, and large sheets of this paper were glued in several layers, to give a firm thickness and to be made into continuous sheets up to lengths of 3 metres or more. The resulting long sheet was then rubbed smooth and neatly folded into accordion pleats and trimmed at the top and bottom to give an approximate size of 18cm x 40cm. Parabeik of this size were usually ‘white’ parabeik - a white background on which coloured illustrations could be painted. These were then called ‘Yoke Son’ parabeik. Gold leaf or gold paint was used to emphasise the glory of Buddha if the story was religious. A border of yellow was painted around each unfolded double page for individual scenes or only along the top and bottom when the scenes ran into each other, in which case rows of trees, rivers or a line of hills were used to separate the scenes. The traditional style of staggered layers to show perspective was commonly seen in these paintings. The text of each scene was written on the yellow border
with black paint. The ‘black’ parabeik are mostly smaller, and made of paper lightly coated with black paint obtained from soot. A pointed stylus was used to write or draw things like blue print plans and boat designs so that white lines appeared to stand out starkly against the black. Three of Master U Kyar Nyunt’s parabeik can be seen at the Musée Guimet in Paris. The catalogue numbers are MA 565,
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MA 4806, and MA 4807. The first ‘Yoke Son’ parabeik is the narrative of the Nemi Jataka that includes scenes of the Bodhisattva King Nemi taken for a tour of purgatory. The height of the parabeik is 13cm and the whole, unfolded length measures 2.5metres. It has 128 folds with one scene covering four folds. A text on the cover says: “Read it in its entirety and call blessings upon this work of merit.” There was also the date of
completion: 1868. It was painted during King Mindon’s time but there was no record of whether the king or which member of the royal family commissioned it. The Nemi Parabeik was obtained by the Guimet in 1949 and not long after the event a Burmese scholar named Maung Hpyoo arrived in Paris to study literature. He was able to translate the text into English, which was then translated into French by the Chargé Mission of Guim-
et at the time, Madam Marguerite Marie Denek who published her paper in 1952. (Un Manuscript Birman au Musée Guimet. Le Nimi-Jataka. Bulletin de la Société des Etudes Indochinoise, XXVII, 1. 1952) The second ‘Yoke Son’ parabeik MA 4806 has 18 sheets of various sportive subjects. The covers are decorated with brown lacquer relief figures. Its folded size is 40cm x 17.5cm. There is no record of how this parabeik came to the Guimet. The last parabeik, number MA 4807, was presented by King Thibaw to a French engineer Philibert Bonvillain who lived in Myanmar, possibly in Mandalay, from 1875 to 1885. In 1955 his family donated the parabeik to the Guimet. This one shows the 12 ceremonies of the year performed at court, and include scenes like the palace buildings, princes and nobility paying ritual homage to the King and Chief Queen, the parade of elephants, horses, military troops, and princes of other nationalities, the Light Festival celebrations, the welcome given to a white elephant with all honours, the royal regatta, equestrian shows, pagoda festivals, etc. One trip to a pagoda festival is seen in a series of 10 pages, the Shwesettaw Hill with Mann Stream coiling around its foot. This site has two shines one on top of the hill and one below, each with a footprint of the Buddha. It is still a popular pilgrimage site today with the only change from carts to cars. The exquisitely detailed parabeik, lovingly painted in colours that remain bright to this day, shows the pomp and ceremony, and the costumes of various levels of officialdom, the participation or not only nobles but common people, the elaborate harness of the royal elephants and horses and their frisky movements. The kings and their retinues are long gone, the magnificent elephants and stallions turned to dust, but they live on in the works of Master U Kyar Nyunt. It is thought that he passed away in 1880. His son Maung Sar took over his rank but as far as anyone knows no work of his survived. Five years after Saya U Kyar Nyunt passed away the country fell into British hands and King Thibaw was exiled to India. Philibert Bonvillain returned to France, taking with him the treasured gift of a king. Perhaps U Kyar Nyunt would not have minded such an early death, to be spared the destruction of a life he loved and recorded so well.
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Spectator Sports
Traditional
boxing By Ma Thanegi
Traditional boxing is the second most popular sport in the country after soccer. Traditional boxing is similar to Thai kickboxing, but the contestants do not wear gloves. The Myanmar Traditional Sports Federation regularly holds tournaments in July, while private organisers arrange occasional bouts throughout the country.
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12 | Snapshots >>> A brief on Buddhist Lent
Religion
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A brief on
Buddhist Lent By Lwin Mar Htun
One of the traditional rituals of Buddhist and the Buddhist Lent Day (War Twin) is a period of three lunar months. On this period monks are severely in practicing meditation. People offer robes to the monks because the period is during the rainy season and monks might be needs to replace with new one. The elder people spent the lent days by merit making, listening to a monk’s sermon. October marks the passing of the monsoon as well as the end of Buddhist Lent and is the time when festivals and weddings resume for the next nine months.
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Language
Ordinal Numbers First
Pa Hta Ma
Tenth Da Tha Ma
Ninth Na Wa Ma
Second Du Ti Ya
Third Ta Ti Ya
Ordinal numbers have different pronunciation in Myanmar language as well and those words are described in myanglish spelling for the people who are learning Myanmar Language.
Fourth Sa Doke Hta
Eight A Hta Ma
Seventh Thet Ta Ma
Fifth Pyin Sa Ma
Sixth Sa Hta Ma
Travel Log
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Waso Festival By Ma Thanegi
Date: Centred around the Full Moon Day of Waso Location: throughout the country This festival commemorates the time when the Buddha gave His first sermon, to five monks. Pilgrims throughout the country gather wild flowers to offer at pagodas, and offer new robes to monks. The Buddhist Lent period is from the Full Moon of Waso until the Full Moon of Thadingyut.
Caneball or ‘Chinlon’ Competition Date: Ends on the day after the Full Moon Day of Waso Location: Mahasmuni Pagoda compound, Mandalay Duration: 7 days Actually it begins about a month before the ending date but the last week displays the skill of the best teams, who must pass a woven ball of cane between its members without touching it with their hands...they use heads, shoulders, knees, elbows, heels. Points are given for grace and style. This game is where no one team goes heads on with another in aggressive competition, unique in the world of sports.
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CALENDAR
Indein Pagoda festival, Inle Lake (October 14 - 17)
Taung pyone nat festival, taung pyone, mandalay August 23 - 28
festival timeline Yadana gu nat festival, amarapura, mandalay September 7 - 11
Taung pyone nat festival, taung pyone, mandalay division August 23 - 28
Yadana gu nat festival, amarapura, mandalay
September 7 - 11
Indein Pagoda festival, Inle Lake (October 14 - 17)
This Buddhist ceremony is held at an ancient
Hpaung Daw Oo Pagoda festival, Inle Lake October 25 - November 1
Hpaung Daw Oo Pagoda festival, Inle Lake
October 25 - November 1
This festival is known as a major gathering spot
This one is known as mother of Taung Byone.
for spiritual mediums. Hundreds of believers and
Most enjoyable festival because of the rowing
around the lake and villages in the surrounding
mediums (Natkadaw) come once a year to Taung
boat trip to the site. The festival is hled annually
mountains carry offerings of fruit and flowers on
Byone. It is the most impressive Nat festival in
in honor of Mt. Popa.
lacquer trays in boats and pay homage as the
pagoda on Inle Lake.
Myanmar.
Thousands of people from communities
holy barge passes. Teams of the lake’s famous leg-rowers compete in annual boat races.
Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda festival, Mandalay
(Otober 27-28)
This festival usually begins one day before the full moon day of Thadingyut and its focus is a huge Buddha image carved from a block of marble. The festival coincides with an annual competition among teams of cane-ball (chinlon) players.
Thadingyut Festival of Light, nation wide
October 27 - November 7
HOt Air balloon festival, Taunggyi
Shwezigon Pagoda Festival, Bagan
Hot-air balloon festival is held one week before
Yearly festival of Shwezigon Pagoda
November 20 to 26
This national festival marks the end of Buddhist
the fullmoon day of Tazaungmone. This festival
Lent and is one of the biggest festivals on the
is very well-known as one of the most famous
Buddhist calendar. People light candles around
festival in country. During the festiva, giant hot
their houses and in the streets and homes are
air balloons of variouis colors and shapes are
decorated with colourful lights. Pagodas, houses,
sent up to the sky. Young people of Taunggyi of
public buildings, parks, and monuments are all
crazy about competing in the festival.
illuminated and there are various activities for everyone to enjoy.
From November 19 to December 19
is celebrated on the Fullmoon day of Tazaungmone. Lacquerwares, glazed pots, hand woven cotton blankets and traditional food aresold by villagers living in the region.
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EXPOSURE
Bornze casting Photo By: Lwin Ko Taik
Bronze casting work is a famous traditional art in Myanmar and the best examples are seen in the Mandalay region. For hundreds of years bronze casting, art and sculpture were used in Myanmar to produce Buddha statues, bells, musical instruments and many kinds of household objects.
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Myanmar Plaza:
A one-stop shop for Sunday pleasures By Natty Tangmeesang Photo by Nay Mone
I
t had been such a long week, going from one meeting to another to discuss business with clients and partners. Hours spent trapped in traffic jams and running to escape from the rain. My schedule has been very tight lately. No time for myself at all. Brain is tiring. Muscles are tense. The house needs to be taken care of, and shower cream, detergent and other things are running out. I cannot wait until my only day off comes.
And here it arrives – Sunday - the only day of the week when the alarm clock is unnecessary. Coming from a vibrant city like Bangkok, I cannot avoid the habit of going to a shopping mall where you can get everything done in one place. Of course, my destination for this Sunday is Myanmar Plaza, currently the biggest shopping mall in Yangon, housing over 100 shops, restaurants, and bars with local and international brands.
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Gloria Jean’s is indeed a comfortable place to enjoy your solitude with aircon inside or spend some quality time with your friends at the outside tables, overlooking the view of the street and Inya Lake.
Grabbing my unfinished book and heading to Myanmar Plaza, my first stop is to Gloria Jean’s, a popular café chain from Australia, on the ground floor. Their menu includes coffee, tea and juices. I was lured to try their new Roasted Chestnut Mocha Chiller, included as one of their promotional drinks in the roasted chestnut series. It is very refreshing and perfect for awakening your body. If you are not a coffee lover, you might want to try Sparkling Yuzu Chiller, a unique combination of Yuzu fruit mixed with Sprite or Sparkling Yuzu Iced-Tea. These two drinks are made with the popular Yuzu, a citrus fruit from Japan that tastes like a mix of melon, mandarin, and grapefruit. To go with my mocha chiller, I selected chicken and vegetable puffs to eat as as my brunch. Finally, it was time to sit back and relax, finishing off my book that had been left unread for quite some time. Gloria Jean’s is indeed a comfortable place to enjoy your solitude with aircon inside or spend some quality time with your friends at the outside tables, overlooking the view of the street and Inya Lake. By the
way - if you do sit inside, don’t forget to look up the ceiling, you will find the word “coffee” beautifully hidden above amongst the decoration. It deserves an Instagram photo * Snap & Post *. I spent around one hour in Gloria Jean’s and my body started to call for attention. My feet were tired and my whole body was aching. I made my way to an information desk to inquire if there was any spa
in Myanmar Plaza. I was guided to the second floor. Walking up the escalator to the second floor, I saw the Japanese store and then walked a bit further towards the back of the store, where I found Yangon Sanctuary Spa. This is their second branch after the one in Taw Win Centre. This branch is decorated in white and has a modern style. The staff was very attentive and the first person I met there greeted me
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and explained about their services. There was no problem in communication as she and the rest of the staff were able to speak English. Their services include body massage and treatment, pedicures and manicures, waxing, facial treatment, hair wash and hair spa. I decided to go with a foot massage for one hour, and an express pedicure and manicure to try out their services. Before the session be-
gins, customers select their preferred drink from the choices of coffee and fresh juices. Making my way inside to the huge comfy chair for the pedicure and manicure, I was mesmerized by the clear view of the Sedona Hotel buildings and busy Yangon streets. Not long after the beginning of the session, rain stared to pour, bringing down the temperature and creating a cozy, relaxing atmosphere inside. It was such perfect weather.
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This place reflects how much I love pampering myself. I spent around two hours there and the services were excellent. My nails were being done professionally and for someone who loves massage as much as I do, Yangon Sanctuary Spa landed in the top three of my favorite massage places in Yangon. The last item on my to-do list was grocery shopping. Going down one level from the spa, is Citymart supermarket. It might not be as vast as other branches but products are abundant and the systematically organized shelves make it easy for customers to locate what they need. Shower cream? Check. Detergent? Check. I could not help but add some other things to my cart. As it is a monsoon season, a musthave product for the season is a portable clothes dryer. Citymart carries several types of clothes dryer for you to choose from for less than 100,000 Kyats (around US$84). My favorite part of Citymart at Myanmar Plaza is near the vegetable and fruit section where you are allowed to sit and take a break from your shopping or consume your purchased food. My Sunday to-do list was complete. It was a productive and hassle-free Sunday as I managed to finish the list in one destination. Feeling completely recharged, I was ready to engage with my coming week’s hectic schedule.
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36 | In focus >>> Than Lwin Inn
Than Lwin Inn :
a cozy guesthouse in a great location By Noe Noe aung
A unique, cozy-looking building in Pyinyawaddy Housing, close to the Sedona Hotel and Myanmar Plaza is a home away from home for tourists on a budget in Yangon. Than Lwin Inn is actually a big house in a quiet housing estate beside the Sedona Hotel in Yankin township. The house was turned into a guesthouse in 2014 for tourists. The guesthouse has only nine rooms. There are private double rooms as well as four larger rooms, which are good for group tours and families.
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The owner of Than Lwin Inn, who did not want to be named, said they had received a lot of tourists from western countries, particularly France and Germany, since Than Lwin Inn opened. The Inn has achieved good occupancy since opening and even during the rainy season the Inn has a steady stream of customers. Though it is a guesthouse, the owner strives to deliver hotel-level service with clean rooms, comfortable bedding and a laundry service. The specialty of Than Lwin Inn
is making guests feel like they are at home living with family, according to the owner. The front garden is a feature of the guesthouse with a bar, a long wooden table and comfortable armchairs made from bamboo. “Just by sitting in the quiet garden, on the bench, every visitor can feel what it is like being in an Asian country because of the surroundings,� the owner said. The guesthouse is only a few minutes away from main road so getting a taxi is easy. The inn is just across the road from Myanmar Plaza, one
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of the newest and biggest shopping malls in Yangon. The downtown area is just 20 minutes away by car. Than Lwin Inn serves breakfast and lunch. Most dishes on the menu are Myanmar traditional foods, cooked to please western guests. There is a special breakfast on Sundays. The white-coloured guesthouse is well ranked on Trip Advisor and Agoda.com with a lot of good comments by guests. Room prices start from US$15 per person.
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GRILLED EGGPLANT SALAD
(Kha Yan Thee Mee, Hpoke Thoke) BY Mohana Gill
This is a very interesting and tasty salad. It is intense not only because of the aromatic crispy garlic and fresh coriander, but because the distinctive flavor of the grilled eggplant. The chopped peanuts and sesame seeds also give it a crunchy texture. This salad is a little like baba ganoush or even Indian bharta. Ingredients • 2 large eggplants (aubergines) • 2 Tbsp cooking oil • 6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced • 2 Tbsp chopped roasted unsalted peanuts • 1 Tbsp roasted whit sesame seeds • 2 birds eye chili, chopped • 2 tsp fish sauce • Chili flakes, to taste • 2 Tbsp chopped coriander leaves. Method • Half the eggplant lengthwise and place them cut side down on a lightly greased baking tray • Grill them for 15-30 minutes or until skin is charred and the flesh is tender • Scoop out the flesh and discard the skin • Mash the flesh and set aside • Heat the cooking oil in a wok • Add the garlic and fry until crisp • Drain the garlic and reserve the oil • Place the eggplant, fried garlic, peanuts, sesame seeds and chilies in a bowl • Season with fish oil and infused oil • Mix well • Garnish with chili flakes and coriander • Serve at room temperature as part of a meal.
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The Foxes return to pay respect by Htun Khaing
Photo by Theint Mon Soe (aka J)
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ne evening of May 2015, players and staff of Leicester City football team landed in Myanmar’s former capital, Yangon, and went around town. But no one noticed them. Prior to their English Premier League title victory this year, the Thai owners of Leicester City Football Club brought staff and players to Myanmar shrines where they prayed to the spirit gods for success in the upcoming season, said Daw Khin Myat Zaw, a tour guide who organised the tour and wrote about it in local weekly News Watch. It seems their prayers were answered as the team won the premiership against all
odds. The Foxes’ win of the 2016 English Premier League title has been described as one of the greatest sporting upsets of all time, and the team has captured the hearts of sport lovers in Thailand and around the globe. Leicester City Football Club was bought by Thai businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in August 2010. The popularity of shrine tourism has been increasing in Myanmar. Myanmar attracts many tourists interested in visiting pagodas, especially from Asian countries like Thailand, Japan, China and Korea. Now, from another continent, Europe, the English Premier League champions are the newest shrine tourists of Myanmar.
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The team came back to Shwedagon after their victory probably because they had made a promise on their first visit in 2015 to return if they succeeded to honour the spirit gods. But unlike the first time when no one noticed their visit; this year The Foxes were welcomed to Yangon by hundreds of their supporters. The Foxes’ second Yangon trip was not designed to be a celebration or a club promotion. It was a trip
simply to pray at Myanmar’s landmark pagoda Shwedagon, which was built around 1,800 years ago. Shwedagon has long been a spiritual place for believers to pray throughout the long history of Myanmar. The Mon and Burmese Kings prayed and made wishes for victories and successes and so did the independence fighters, politicians, students, army leaders, many pro-democracy activists wishing for the
release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, even communists on their temporary return for peace talks. On May 22, Leicester City FC’s team went to the pagoda directly from the airport and after spending less than two hours at Shwedagon they were headed back to the airport. Though they seemed to be quite in a rush, they went through the southern stairway instead of the western stairway, which is the most direct route the pagoda’s platform.
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Traditionally, the western entrance has been considered inauspicious. “Last year, they might have prayed for the best situation, but they won the tittle under impossibility so they came back,” said Chan Myae Ko Ko Lwin, who led The Foxes’ fans. The team walked around the pagoda faithfully three times in a clockwise direction. They donated incense and candles at the pagoda’s offering points. Then they went to step on the historically famous spot
at the pagoda, the so-called ‘Victorious Land’. Before leaving, they recited Buddhist matras along with the Thai Buddhist monks. Thai tourists’ interest in Myanmar’s Nats, or spirit gods has led to a substantial increase in revenue for Myanmar’s growing tourism industry, sources say. In 2015, more than 200,000 Thai tourists visited Myanmar – about 15 percent of the year’s total visitors. Botahtaung Pogada, near Yangon
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They believe that if they pray in whisper, getting close to the statue of the Lady, any wish will be granted
River is also a famous place among tourists who believe in animist spirits. Many Buddhists in Myanmar and Thailand believe in animist spirits, most of who are based on historic, real-life characters. But while Nat worship seems to be on the wane in Myanmar, the practice has grown in popularity in Thailand in recent years, said U Kyaw Kyaw Swe, who provides a car rental service for tourists in Myanmar. As a result, many Thai visitors to Myanmar consider Mya Nang Nwe’s shrine a must-see. Mya Nang Nwe was born in 1897 in Mogok in Mandalay Region, a town renowned for its high-quality rubies. Throughout her life she was said to be popular for her beauty and generosity, until she died in 1957. Her shrine was erected inside Botahtaung Pagoda in 1990. Despite her popularity in Thailand, there is no evidence that she ever travelled east, or had anything to do with the country, although some say she travelled to India to study in the 1920s.
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“They believe that if they pray in whisper, getting close to the statue of the Lady, any wish will be granted,” said Ko Ko Hlaing, a Yangon-based tour guide. Mya Nang Nwe’s popularity among Thai tourists may soon be surpassed by another nat spirit, Botahtaung Bo Bo Gyi (the Guardian Lord of Botahtaung), who also has a shrine at the pagoda. Myanmar has become a destination for shrine believers. Ever year, hundreds of believers come to pay their respects at the pagodas and shrines. “There are other Buddhist countries in [Southeast Asia], but Thais are very interested in Myanmar Nats,” said Kyaw Kyaw Swe, the car rental entrepreneur. “Now that Leicester has gone from not a very strong situation to the top as Premier League champions, I think more Thais will come here.” Story rewritten from “In good spirits: Nats find fame with Thai tourists | Frontier Myanmar”
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Twante: The Great Escape By Bob Percival
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o travel to Twante is to leave the heady confines of Yangon, with all its noise and congestion, and instead enter the vast open beauty of the Ayeyarwady Delta. The escape route is via the ferries that ply the Yangon River at regular 20-minute intervals, from Pansodan Jetty between 5am and 9pm (US$4 return). The three new ferries, Cherry 1, 2 and 3, are a gift of the Japanese government and replace the vintage Htee Hlaing
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One of the many teak boats plying the Twante Canal carrying rice from the mills after processing.
Shin, Kyan Sit Thar and Tapin Shwe Htee ferries, which although overflowing in local charm and character, were desperately overcrowded. The 20-minute ride across the river gives you a great opportunity to view the impressive Yangon skyline, all the way to the Shwedagon Pagoda. The river itself is full of beautifully painted wooden craft taking locals between Dala and Yangon. Its also a chance to spot some of the old ferries and boats that have been left high and dry on the muddy banks, either waiting for repair
or to be torn apart for scrap metal. The mayhem and madness on arriving at Dala jetty is bordering on the notorious. You will have a multitude of local guys yelling and touting their business at you. On offer, will be rides to Twante on the back of a motorbike (US$15-US$20 for the day), one-way taxi fare (2,000K) or an air-con van (US$45 for the day). You can also catch a local bus a bit further down the road. It’s best just to wait for a while, acclimatise to the noise and confusion, then pick someone friendly who
speaks good English, and bargain as much you can. I would highly recommend either an all-day motorbike or minivan, as this gives you a lot of freedom to stop and explore places along the way. It also takes away the chance of you being stranded out at Twante late in the day. The trip to Twante is about 20 miles, along a very straight road that basically follows the line of the Twante Canal only about a mile away. Look out for lots of small aquaculture ponds, toddy and danni
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Freshly produced natural rubber hanging up to dry for 24 hours before being smoked and shipped off to Mandalay for export.
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The magnificent Shwesandaw Pagoda, said to contain scared hairs of Buddha in its golden vault buried below the stupa.
Pot being thrown using traditional techniques, in one of the many workshops in Twante.
palms (both of which can be used for making highly-intoxicating wine), bamboo houses with giant martaban water storage pots, bamboo farms, and of course the extensive rice fields; rice being the main cash crop in the Delta. One place you have to visit on the way is the Snake Temple, two-thirds of the way to Twante. You will see the brown towers of the Paya on your left, which marks the road to the temple. The Snake Temple is situated in the middle of a large man-made pond, stocked with golden and white carp, ravenous for the pop-corn that you will be offered at the temple by local kids. In the temple itself are about 40 carpet snakes, harmless pythons but definitely confronting in their size; some over 10 feet long. If you are lucky, the local Buddhist nuns who look after the temple, will let you hold one. A local bamboo farmer, who saw the snakes’ presence in the area as very fortuitous, set the temple up about 50 years ago. It’s a serene and peaceful place just to hangout and relax. The locals come here on Sundays to pray and enjoy a picnic, and of course feed the fish and take photos. Also on offer during the months after the wet season is a visit to the numerous rubber plantations you will see on your left just before entering Twante. You will need to request your driver to make a detour to the plantations, but it is well worth the effort. It may be the first time to have the opportunity to experience natural rubber. To see, feel and smell it, hanging out to dry, pure white and natural, draped across verdant green bamboo rails, is something very special. On entering Twante you will see the remarkable Shwesandaw Pagoda, reported to have been built during the lifetime of the Lord Buddha and containing in its vault a number of his sacred hairs. The Sandaw Pagoda has suffered damage from seven major earthquakes over the last millennium. Its present design was modelled on the Shwedagon Pagoda by King Hsinbyushin of Konbaung Period. He increased
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There are also a number of colonial style buildings to explore in this part of the town.
its height to 62 metres and built 40 surrounding minor stupas. Enjoy the walk in bare feet around its perimeter. It’s a calming experience. On leaving the pagoda you enter Twante proper. It is a typical Delta town, and previously in the early twentieth century a centre of trade for rice and ngapi (fish paste) which were exported to India. The town also offers you an insight into the life of the famous writer George Orwell (Eric Blair),
who was stationed here for seven months in 1924 as an officer of the Indian Imperial Police Force. It is is a thriving town with very few tourists and is best known for its authentic pottery and weaving workshops. The techniques used to create the pottery have remained unchanged over the years. The potter sits on the ground, with the wheel sunk into the earthen floor, his assistant turns the wheel by hand or foot, in perfect
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Snake curled up between two Buddha statues at the Snake Temple between Dalah and Twante.
time with the potter’s movements. The local clay has been mixed with finer clay bought down from up north. The brick kilns are fired by bamboo for the first initial heat, then mangrove wood is used for a longer burn. The firing usually lasts 24 hours and hundreds of pots are placed in the kiln. Walk around look at the numerous potteries in the area. If possible, leave a donation, as the workers are very poorly paid for their expert workmanship.
There are also a number of colonial-style buildings to explore in this part of the town. The rich businessmen who ran and owned the potteries built these mansions in the early 1900s. Today they are rundown but interesting to see. Nearby, not far from the Police Station, hidden highup behind trees, is an old abandoned teak house that was used as living quarters for senior police officers, at the same time that Orwell was stationed in Twante (possibly
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Old abandoned teak house, used as living quarters for senior police officers in the early 1920s, and possibly by George Orwell (Eric Blair) who was stationed there in 1924.
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Skeins of hand-dyed thread drying in the sun, in preparation for weaving on traditional wooden looms.
by George Orwell himself). For lunch it’s a great experience to eat at the local Seven Star café (basic Burmese cuisine), which is situated beside the Twante Canal. It’s a hive of activity with local boats doing trade, and larger tourist cruise ships heading north to Pyay. The canal was built in the 1930s to connect the Delta streams and the main Ayeyarwady River with Yangon. After lunch walk along the main street by the river and take in the local life. You can also take a short trip across the river for 5,000K and have a look at the thriving boatbuilding businesses along the banks. Traditional methods are still in place. Before heading back, ask to see the one remaining traditional weaving workshop that is still in operation, not far from the Sandaw Pagoda. The old looms are wonderful, as are the skeins of died thread often laid out to dry in the sun. Enjoy the sound of the wooden bobbins being thrown from side to side of the loom by the skilled workers. Visiting Twante is a great opportunity to see traditional methods and practices at work, to relax and unwind, and to experience a pace of life that seems a thousand miles from Yangon. Enjoy the day and soak in the atmosphere.
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Concrete
canvas How artists, not anarchists, are building Myanmar’s graffiti scene. By Jared Downing Photo by Maro Verli
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hen Bart isn’t spray painting public property in the dead of night, he collects comic books and Pokémon cards. When the 20-year-old and his two crewmates, who call themselves ROAR, set out to paint (or “bomb”) a bridge, wall or dumpster, their work might be a deep meditation in color and line, or it might be a mural of comic book heroes. “We want to paint Batman and Superman just because we like them,” said Bart. In a country with a rich history of stifling its own art, Myanmar graffiti didn’t grow out of revolutionary ideals and fighting the establishment. Artists simply saw a concrete wall as just another kind of canvas. The ROAR crew, like much of Yangon’s street art community, simply paints what they want to.
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Canvass and can Ko Toe, a member of graffiti team Yangon Street Association, agrees that most of Myanmar’s street artists don’t have any real motive other than the love of painting. When asked about those who paint to destroy, either as spray can revolutionaries or simple vandals, Ko Toe said: “Only a few - five or six people - that’s all. [The rest] just want to do their job, make their art.” YSA graffiti artists were Bart’s role models when he was in high school and the stardom of American graffiti artist Bansky inspired high school kids in Myanmar to meet up and bomb the streets with their tags and show off their work on Facebook. Ko Toe says his YSA crew usually aims only to make the structures they paint on look better with their graffiti art. They never touch monasteries or churches and stay away from certain cities, such as Kalaw and Taungyi because: “If the town itself is really beautiful, we don’t paint that.” Then again, he added, “Sometimes we do try to destroy the system, because some systems are really bullshit.” He believes there should be no inherent message tied to graffiti art. “The other side is that some people, not the government, society, thinks that it’s not about the art, it’s destroying,” he continued. “We need exhibitions to show them its not about vandalism. If we can show them there’s something beautiful on the corner.” Legitimate vandals Graffiti artist Ko Satan (a name that reflects his philosophy that the Devil exists only in the mind) doesn’t care what anyone thinks. He began as a fine arts student at Yangon University. He was kicked out when he and some friends got drunk and destroyed a sculpture on campus. He claimed their inebriated minds found the statue terrifying, but he wasn’t trying to defend himself. He said he doesn’t love art, as a concept. He just loves to paint.
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“Once I was painting a monkey at Hledan Junction, an old lady said, ‘Why are you destroying this? Go to your home to do that!’ And I said, ‘In my home I don’t have a free space to paint’.
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Ko Satan takes commissions, occasionally big ones from sponsors like Tuborg Beer, but he only ever paints exactly what he wants, which could be trees, people, the bulldog emblem on his jeans—whatever he feels like. “I don’t have second thoughts. If they don’t like it, they can go back and paint over it,” he said. “Once I was painting a monkey at Hledan Junction, an old lady said, ‘Why are you destroying this? Go to your home to do that!’ And I said, ‘In my home I don’t have a free space to paint’.” That “free space to paint” may be growing in Yangon. In December the French Institute held the first Yangon Street Art Festival, an exhibition sponsored by Tuborg Beer. Elodie Sobczak, who helped organize the event, argues that graffiti has a place in Yangon’s growing fine art scene; it just needs breathing room. “A city like this could be very different if street art were accepted,” she said. “Especially for graffiti artists, they need legal space for the art to be shown.” Yet Sobczak is optimistic. “It’s changing little by little.” For the ROAR artists, the change has come from more commissions and legitimate exhibitions. They don’t mind taking money for what they do, as long as they get to do what they want. Once, after participating in an art festival in Mawlamyine, they simply kept painting. “We bombed the whole city that night,” said Bart. “We all started as kids who just like to draw stuff,” 9 Micro added. Indeed, their largest mural is almost one of the hardest to find, tucked away on the rooftop of a condo in the southeast of the city. It is a sprawling fusion of abstract forms, Myanmar and English characters and surreal figures, seamlessly combining the different styles of Bart, 9 Micro and Wunna to spell the letters R O A R. It was painted as a reunion project when Bart returned from Singapore for the holidays. The crew doesn’t know how many more of these shared projects they will have. Bart will stick with graffiti; he wants to help bring it into the fine art worldlike street painters in New York and Los Angeles, even if it means joining them there. “Yangon cannot support artists with our way of doing things,” he said. “We’re reckless.” But he will never stop painting what he wants. This article contained reporting by Maro Ver.
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Fax:.................................................. (0092) (51) 282 8819
Bangkok
234-0320, 637-9406
India
Fax:.......................................................... (662) 236-6898
3/50 F, Nyayamarg, Chanakyapuri New Delhi
mebkk@asianet.co.th
110021.
Philippines
Ph:.............(009111) 6889007, 6889008, 26889007
4th Floor, XANLAND Centre, 152, Amorsolo
No.3, Block - Nel(l), Road No.84, Gulshan - 2,
Fax:........................................................(009111) 6877942
Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, Manila,
Dhaka.
myandeli@nda.vsnl.net.in
Philippines.
Bangladesh
meisb@isb.comsats.net.pk www.myanmar-embassy-islamabad.net
Ph:............ (88-02) 988 8903, 989 6331, 989 6298,
Indonesia
......................................................... 989 6373, 988 9215
109, Jl. Hajiagus Salim, Menteng, Jakarta Pusat.
Fax:..................................................... (0063-2) 817-5895
Fax:......................................................(88-02) 88 23 740
Ph:.........................................(62 21) 314 0440, 327 684
embmyanmnl@mindgate.net
mynembdk@siriusbroadband.com, mynembdk@
Fax:............................................................(62 21) 327 204
memnl@mindgate.net
siriusbb.com
myanmar@cbn.net.id
No.29, Boulevard du Regent, 1000 Brussels.
26 Hayarkon, Tel-Aviv 68011.
Ph:.................................................. (007) (095) 291 05 34
Ph:...........................................................(0032) 2513 4175
Ph:.......................................+972-3-517 0760, 517 0761
Fax:................................................(007) (095) 956 31 86
Fax:.........................................................(0032) 2513 1475
Fax:........................................................ (972) (3) 517 1440
Singapore
teltaman@aquanet.co.il
15, St Martin’s Drive, Singapore 257996.
Belgium
Brazil
Israel
Ph:................................... (0063-2) 817-2373, 812-9587
Russia
41. Ul. B. Nikitskaya (Gertsena), Moscow, Russia.
SHIS QL 08, Conjunto 14, Casa 05, Lago Sul,
Italy
71620-245 Brasilia-DF.
Via Vincenzo Belini, No.20, Interno 1, 00198,
Fax:..........................................................(0065) 7356236
Ph:................. 00-55-61-2483747, 00-55-61-3643145
Rome, Italy.
ambassador@mesingapore.org.sg
Fax:.....................................................00-55-61-3642747
Ph:.................................... (+39-6) 854-9374, 841-6863
www.mesingapore.org.sg
mebrsl@brnet.com.br
Fax:............................................................(+39-6) 841-167
South Africa
www.mebrsl.freeservers.com
meroma@tiscalinet.it
319 Murray St., Brooklyn, Pretoria, P.O. Box 12121,
No.14, lot 2185/46292 Simpang 212 Jalan
8-26, 4-Chome, Kita-Shinagawa , Shinagawa-Ku,
Ph:...........................27-12-460 6544, 27-12-460 4333
Kampong Rimbe, Gadong 3385.
Tokyo 140-0001.
Fax:.......................................................... 27-12-346 0746
Ph:............................ (673-2) 450506, (673-2) 450507
Ph:................................ (81) (03) 3441-9291, 3441-9292,
mepta@myanemb-sa.net
Fax:............................................................ (673-2) 451008
3441-9293,3441-9294, 3441-9029, 3441-9044
Sri Lanka
myanmar@brunet.bn
Fax:.................................................... (81) (03) 3447-7394
No.108, Barnes Place, Colombo 7.
contact@myanmar-embassy-tokyo.net
Ph:................................................. (94) (1) 681197, 672197
181, Preah Norodon Boulevard, Boeung Keng
met@twics.con
Fax:...............................................................(94) (1) 681196
Kang 1, Khan Chamcarmon.
www.myanmar-embassy-tokyo.net
Korea
mecmb@itmin.com, mmembcmb@eureka.lk
Ph:........................................... (855-23) 213663, 213664 Fax:.......................................................(855-23) 2136665
723-1, 724-1, HANNAM-DONG , YONGSAMN-KU,
19A, Charles St, London W1J 5DX, United
m.e.phnompenh@bigpond.com.kh
SEOUL, 140-210.
Kingdom.
Ph:.................. (82-2) 792-3341, 796-9858, 796-7814
Ph:......... 020 7629 6966, 020 7499 8841, 020 7629
The Sandringham Building, 85 Range Road,
Fax:..........................................................(82-2) 796-5570
4486
Suite 902-903, Ontario KIN 8J6.
myanmar@kotis.net, myanmare@ppp.kornet.net.
Fax:........................................................... 020 7629 4169
Brunei
Cambodia
Canada
Japan
Ph:........................................................... (0065) 7350209
Queenswood 0121, South Africa.
United Kingdom
Ph:.............................................................. (613) 232-6434
Laos
Fax:............................................................ (613) 232-6435
Ban Thong Kang, P.O. Box No. 11, Sok Palaung,
United States of America
mofa.aung@mptmail.net.mm
P.O. Box No.11.
2300 S Street, NW, Washington DC 20008,
Ph:..............................................(856) (21) 314910, 314911
United States.
No. 6, Dong Zhi Men Wai Street, Chao Yang
Fax:.......................................................... (856) (21) 314913
Ph:... (202) 332-3344, (202)332-4350, (202)332-4352
District, Beijing, 100600.
mev@loxinfo.co.th, mevlao@laotel.com
Fax:.............................................................(202) 332-4351
China
Melondon@btconnect.com
Ph:......................................0086-10-6532-0351 ext: 24
Malaysia
Fax:.................................................0086-10-6532-0408
No.8(C), Jalan Ampang Hillir, 55000.
info@myanmarembassy.com
Ph:............... (603) 4251 5595, 42514455, 4251 6355
Vietnam
www.myanmarembassy.com
Fax:................................... (603) 4251 3855, 4251 3535
A-3 (101-104), Vanphuc Diplomatic Quarters, Kim
mekl@tm.net.my
MA St.
Egypt
mewdcusa@gmail.com, mewdcusa@yahoo.com www.mewashingtondc.com
No. 24, Mohamed Mazhar St., Zamalek, Cairo
Ph:......................................(84-4) 845 3369, 823 2056
11211.
Fax:..........................................................(84-4) 845 2404
Ph:..................... (202) 736 2644, 735 4176, 735 1568
mevhan@fpt.vn
Fax:........................................................... (202) 736 6793 embassy-myanmar@access.com.eg
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ORGANIZATION MYANMAR TOURISM FEDERATION (MTF)
CONSULATES Myanmar Tourism Transportation Association (MTTA)
Consulate of the People’s Republic
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd., Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd.,
56, Main Rd., South Lanmadaw Quater, Sittwe,
Ph:................................................................01-8551012~13
Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
Rakhine
Ph:......................................................................01-8551014
Ph:......................... 043-21126, 043-21969, 043-22241
Myanmar Hoteliers Association (MHA) 3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd.,
Myanmar Souvenir Shops
Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
Association (MSEA)
Ph:......................................................................01-8551014
355, Ground Flr., U Wisara Rd., SCHG.
Union of Myanmar Travel Association (UMTA)
Ph:...................................................502923, 095195464
Myanmar Domestic Tour Operators
29, Rm-802, 7th Flr., Min Yè Kyaw Swar St., LMDW.
Association (MDTOA)
Ph:................................. 214941, 214945, 09 73050761
422/424, Shwe Bon Thar St., Upper Block, PBDN.
Myanmar Tourism Marketing (MTM) 204, Rm-4(B), Bo Myat Tun St., Nilar Condo, PZDG.
Ph:.......................................09 5029602, 09 5029603
Myanmar Restaurants Association
(MRA)
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd., Thuwunna Junction, TGGN. Ph:......................................................................01-8551014
Myanmar Hospitality Professionals Association (MHPA)
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd.,
of Bangladesh
Fax:...................................................................043-23968
Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China
35th St., Bet: 65th St. & 66th St., (Yadanar Lane), CATZ. Ph:.............................02-34457, 02-34458, 02-35937 Fax:......................................................................02-35944
Ph:..................................241863, 380141, 09 73251422
Consulate General of the Republic
General Services Association
Ta-1/25, 65th St., Corner of Ngu War St., Myothit,
Myanmar Tourist Healthcare and (MTHGSA)
330, Ground Flr., Ahlone Rd., Yangon Int’l Hotel, DGN. Ph:..................................................................... 218445~46
Myanmar Tourist Guides Association (MTGA)
42/44, Bo Soon Pat St., Lower Block, PBDN. Ph:....................... 256278, 09 5071608, 09 51272914
Myanmar Tourism Human Resources
Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
Development Association (MTHRDA)
Ph:......................................... 01-8551256, 0931544603
267, 3rd Flr, Pyay Rd., SCHG.
of India CMTZ
Ph:.. 02-81019, 02-80355, 02-80366, 09 2007559 Fax:..................................................................... 02-80366
The Consulate of Sweden 130-B, Than Lwin Rd., BHN.
Ph:.................... 01-504068, 01-539901, 09 5006972
The Honorary Consulate of Switzerland
79/80, Bahosi Housing, Wardan St., LMDW. Ph:.........................................................................01-211536 Fax:............................................................................ 211540
Ph:.......................................................... 523200, 523623
UN AGENCIES Food & Agriculture Organization
United Nations High Commissioner
United Nations Programme on HIV/
Seed Production Centre (MAS), Insein Rd.,
287, Pyay Rd., SCHG.
137/1, Than Lwin St., KMYT.
Gyogone, P.O Box-101, ISN.
Ph:......................................... 524022, 524024, 524025
Ph:..........................................................538087, 538938
Ph:......................................................................641672~73
Fax:........................................................................... 524031
Fax:...........................................................................503160
Fax:............................................................................641561
myaya@unhcr.org
www.unaids.org
United Nations Office of the Resident
World Food Programme (WFP)
(FAO)
FAO-MMR@fao.org
for Refugees (UNHCR)
AIDS (UNAIDS)
International Labour Organization
& Humanitarian Coordinator of the
1, Kanbe’ St., Cor of Kaba Aye Pagoda St., YKN.
Activities (UNRC)
Ph:.................................................................... 566538~39
6, Natmuak Rd., TMWE.
Fax:..................................................................01-2305976
Fax:......................................................................... 566538
Ph:................................................... 542910~19 (10 Lines)
wfp.yangon@wfp.org
yangon@ilo.org
Fax:......................................................... 292739, 544531
(ILO)
www.ilo.org/yangon
United Nations System’s Operational
5, Kanbawza St., Shwe Taung Gyar (2) Ward, BHN. Ph:..............................................................01-2305971~76
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations Office on Drugs and
23-A, Inya Myaing St., Shwe Taung Gyar (2) Ward,
11-A, Malikha St., MYGN.
Fax:..................................................................650408~09
BHN.
Ph:.. 666903, 660556, 660538, 660398, 664539
lawin@searo.who.int
Ph:............................................................01-2305960~69
Fax:...........................................................................651334
www.whomyanmar.org
Fax:................................................................. 01-2305965
fo.myanmar@unodc.org
unicefyangon@unicef.org
www.unodc.org/myanmar
(UNICEF)
www.unicef.org/myanmar
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
Crime (UNODC)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
6, Natmauk Rd., TMWE.
6, Natmauk Rd., BHN.
Ph:.................. 546309 (Direct), 542910~19 (10 Lines)
Ph:................................................... 542910~19 (10 Lines)
........................................................................ (C/O – UNDP)
Fax: ........................................................ 545634, 544531
Fax:.......................................546029 544436, 545634
registry.mm@undp.org
............................................................544531 (C/O-UNDP) myanmar.office@unfpa.org www.myanmar.unfpa.org
2, Pyay Rd., 7 Mile, MYGN. Ph:....................................................................650405~06
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Pindaya
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Inn MANDALAY
Mann Myanmar Inn 27th Street, Between of 65th & 66th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 32309, 35604 Yadanar Yoma Inn 41st Street, Between of 78th & 79th Street, Mahar Aung Myay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 76612, 76613, 76611 Fax: 76613 yadanaryomainn@gmail.com www.yadanaryomainn.com
MOTEL NYAUNG SHWE
Inle Star Motel 49, Canal Road, Near Tai Nan Bridge, Win Quarter(2), Nyaung Shwe, Southern Shan State. Tel: 081 209745, 09 36167590 09 252192629 Fax: 081 209745 info.inlestar@gmail.com www.inlestarhotel.com
bagan
Erawati Raft Floating Bar café and Souvenirs Entrance Nu Phaya Bagan, 09797571237 erawatiraft@gamil.com,
bookshop YANGON
Bookworm 229, Pansoedan Street, Ground Floor, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 389611, 09 780162900, 09421109960 bookwormbooksmyanmar@ gmail.com Book Worm Waizayantar Orange Shopping Centre, 2nd Floor, Room-S5, Thingangyun Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 421109960 Innwa 244-246, Pansoedan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 243216, 389838, 374324 Innwa 18, Ground Floor, U Htun Lin Chan Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 514387 Innwa Books and Cafe 206(D), 2nd Floor, Myanmar HAGL Plaza, Corner of Kaba Aye Pagoda Road and No.1 Industrial Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 263684559, 09 5119134 Khit Thit Sar Pay 470, Mahabandoola Road, Top of 31st Street & Bo Soon Pat Street, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 380968, 095194969 Monument 150, Dhama Zedi Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 536306, 537805 Myanmar Book Centre 55, Ahlone Road, Corner of Baho Road, Ahlon Township, Yangon. Tel: 221271, 09 73015993, Ngar Doe Sar Pay Sayar San Road, Corner Of Pearl Condo, Pearl Condo, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73055543, 09 73147732 Sar Pay (2) 262-264, Ground Floor, Pansoedan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73033802, 09 5145318 Sar Pay (5) 138-140, 1st Floor, Pansoedan Road, Corner of Mahabandoola Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73125067, 09 73140936
Royal Pearl Hotel | No. 196, 29th Road, Between of 80th & 81st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay, Myanmar. Tel: +(95-2) 65249, 67409, +(95-11) 202652 pearlhotelmandalay@gmail.com www.royalpearlhotelmdy.com
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Mandalay
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MANDALAY
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