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Kangon Destination Guide

Touring Kangon in Myanmar

Kangon in the region of Sagain is a city located in Myanmar - some 179 mi or ( 288 km ) North-West of Nay Pyi Taw , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Kangon

Time in Kangon is now 04:03 AM (Wednesday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Rangoon " with a UTC offset of 6.5 hours. Depending on your travel resources, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Chittagong, Agartala, and Yinban Anauk. Being here already, consider visiting Mae Hong Son . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for Kangon ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Monywa

0:20 min by ovuigner
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View of the Chindwin River from Monywa ..

Bite-sized Bugs

0:51 min by contemporarynomad
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My traveling revolves mostly around food. Any kind of food. So when I browsed through some of the snack food options in Monywa and saw a pile of fat, juicy, deep-fried locusts, I became intrigued. I p ..


Manufacturing gold leaf

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Electric Buddha No. 1

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Electric Buddha at Moe Hnyin Than Boaddai Temple (Thanboadday Paya), northern Myanmar (Burma). ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Monywa District

Monywa District is an administrative district in southern Sagaing Division, Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the city of Monywa.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 22.12 95.13 (Lat./Long.); Less than 7 km away
Tags: Districts of Burma, Sagaing Region

Phowintaung

Phowintaung (also spelt as Hpowindaung, Powintaung, Po Win Taung) is a Buddhist cave complex located approximately 25 kilometers west of Monywa and 10 kilometers southeast of Yinmabin, in Yinmabin Township, Monywa District, Sagaing Region, Northern Burma (Myanmar). It is located on the western bank of the Chindwin River. The name of the complex means Mountain of Isolated Solitary Meditation. The complex contains 947 small and large richly decorated caves.

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Located at 22.05 94.98 (Lat./Long.); Less than 13 km away
Tags: Caves of Burma, Places of worship in Burma, Sagaing Region, Visitor attractions in Burma

Chaung-U

Chaung-U is a town in central Myanmar. It is located in Monywa District, Sagaing Division. It is the principal town of Chaung-U township. In the Bagan dynasty, when King Popa Saw Rahan (also known as King Taungthugyi) governed the country, it was named "San Tauk Village". It was a large village where some different natives of the Union of Myanmar, like kayin, shan and lawah(wah) natives, lived warmly together. Then, King Kyansit founded the city gathering ten villages together, e.

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Located at 21.96 95.28 (Lat./Long.); Less than 29 km away
Tags: Populated places in Burma, Township capitals of Burma

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