Published on April 24th, 2009 | Last updated July 1st, 2009 | 20 page views so far |
We would like to hear from you
Myanmar2day team would like to know about your idea on Myanmar. We will be running visitor polls about Myanmar and Myanmar2day website so that we could improve our site design, content and scope. The first question we would like to ask our valued visitors is whether you are interested in coming to Myanmar. We have already been running this poll for a while at our site bar, but we have decided that it is more visible for our visitors if we put the poll on the front page. Please provide us with some idea about your wish to travel to Myanmar. Thank you very much
This poll is closed. The result of the survey is shown below. It seems most of the visitors to our site are interested in visiting Myanmar, or have already done so.
Are you visiting Myanmar?
I am planning to visit soon (31%, 41 Votes)
I visited more than once already (28%, 37 Votes)
I visited once and want to visit again (14%, 19 Votes)
I want to, but not now (14%, 18 Votes)
Never! (11%, 14 Votes)
I visited once, but will never come back again (2%, 3 Votes)
Published on July 4th, 2009 | Last updated July 4th, 2009 | 0 page views so far |
If you want to have a glimpse of traditional Myanmar anyient (dance and comedy show), the best place to see is in Mandalay. The Moustache Brothers Troupe (Mustache Brothers) is a group of banned anyient comedians, once famous among the people of Myanmar but now banned from performing in front of general public for their political activities. They perform their show every evening at 8:30 PM at their home in Mandalay. Because of restrictions imposed on the troupe, the performence cannot be done in full traditional costume. They perform their performence in normal dress, announcing that they are merely demonstrating what the actual Myanmar traditional anyient looks like. This is a mean to circumvent their public performence restriction.
The three moustache brothers are Par Par Lay, Lu Maw and Lu Zaw. Par Par Lay used to be a very well known comedian in Myanmar, until his arrest and prison sencente, together with one of his brothers, for seven years. They were arrested after their performence in 1995 at the Myanmar Independence Day performence at NLD head quarter (then at the house of Aung San Su Kyi). They were released in 2000, after serving five of their seven years term, but are still banned from public performence.
The following short video clip shows their performence in English.
You can visit the Moustache Brothers at their house in 39th Street, between 80th and 81st streets, Mandalay. (Any taxi driver or trishaw driver knows their place). You can also buy the T-shirt of the Moustache Brothers at 5000 kyats each.
Published on June 29th, 2009 | Last updated July 4th, 2009 | 50 page views so far |
After the announcement of the country’s first H1N1 influenza by the state media on Sunday, face mask price in Yangon suddenly increases dramatically. According to one of my friends who wrote “Face mask price skyrocketing in Yangon and even shortage. You will not find it easily as almost all clinics, hospitals and drug stors are out of stocks.”
Published on June 29th, 2009 | Last updated July 4th, 2009 | 194 page views so far |
Myanmar’s State media announced the country’s first swine flu case on 28 June 2009. The patient is a 13 year old school girl who came back from Singapore after a short visit. She arrived without showing signs and symptoms of influenza.
Her private tutorial teacher noticed she was not well, and sent her to hospital on Friday. She was treated as…
Published on June 22nd, 2009 | Last updated June 21st, 2009 | 24 page views so far |
For those international travelers looking for a nice mid level accommodation in Mandalay, Mandalay Swan Hotel is the hotel for you. Located just close to the Mandalay Royal Palace Fort and the moat, the hotel is in a place where it is easy to travel in Mandalay. Especially in the evening, you can take a leisurely stroll along the moat just in front…
Published on June 18th, 2009 | Last updated June 18th, 2009 | 98 page views so far |
There are quite a number of cheap guest houses and hotels in Mandalay. Many of them offer nice rooms, friendly staff and some basic services at a cheap price. These are ideal accommodations for the budget travelers. Here are some of these cheap accommodations that are popular among the foreign travelers that got quite a fair comments and recommendations on…
Published on June 16th, 2009 | Last updated June 14th, 2009 | 24 page views so far |
Zaycho Market (also spelled Zay Cho, Zeigyo, Zaygyo, Zegyo Market) is the largest and the most important market in Mandalay as well as in upper Burma. Built since the time of King Mindon, Zaycho market is one of the oldest markets in Myanmar. Zaycho in Burmese means “cheap price”. Whether the prices are really cheap or not is difficult to answer.…
Published on June 13th, 2009 | Last updated June 13th, 2009 | 96 page views so far |
According to a news report from Xinhua News Agency, Myanmar (Burma) is planning to issue visa on arrival service to foreign visitors in order to promote the country’s tourism industry. Diamond Palace and Travel and Tour Co. Ltd has got permmission to apply online visa on arrival for its customers. According to the Foreign Office of Myanmar, it takes two to five…
Published on June 11th, 2009 | Last updated June 8th, 2009 | 31 page views so far |
Shweinbin Monastery
This beautiful monastery is located in the south west corner of Mandalay City, on 89th street between 38th and 39th streets. Called simply by the locals as “Teak Monastery”, it was built in 1895 by a Chinese jade merchant U Set Shwin. It has very fine 19th century wood carvings and wood arts depicting the life of Gautama Buddha. These are carved in…
Published on June 8th, 2009 | Last updated June 6th, 2009 | 18 page views so far |
Just to the east of the Atumashi Kyaung near the base of Mandalay Hill is Shwenandaw Kyaung (Golden Palace Monastery). It is a wooden structure made of teak. This building was originally part of the royal palace complex of King Mindon. Originally, the whole palace complex was from Amarapura (near Mandalay) which was the former capital city of Upper Burma.…
Published on June 3rd, 2009 | Last updated June 5th, 2009 | 27 page views so far |
Maha Atulawaiyan Kyaungdawgyi (or) Incomparable Monastery
A few hundred meters south of Kuthodaw Pagoda is the Atumashi Monastery (Maha Atulawaiyan Kyaungdawgyi or Incomparable Monastery). Originally built by King Mindon, the founder of Mandalay, in 1857, the original monastery was burned down in the fire in 1890. This was one of King Mindon’s greatest religious projects. The temple was built at the…
| Last updated July 1st, 2009 | 20 page views so far | 
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