How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Myanmar, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Myanmar. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Myanmar are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Myanmar. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides, this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you won’t find anywhere else.

© 2015 Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

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Table of Contents

How To Use This E-Book

Myanmar’s Top 10 Attractions

Editor’s Choice

Introduction: The Golden Land

Land of Rice and Rivers

Decisive Dates

From Earliest Times

British Rule and World War II

Independence and Military Rule

The Poppy Trail

The People of Myanmar

Burmese Buddhism

Festivals

A Feast of Flavours

Arts and Crafts

The Performing Arts

Insight: The Many Images of Buddha

Temple Architecture

Introduction: Places

Introduction: Yangon and the Ayeyarwady Delta

Yangon

The Delta Region

Bago Division

Insight: Getting Around the Country

Introduction: Mandalay and Environs

Mandalay

Around Mandalay

Introduction: The Plains of Bagan

Bagan Archaeological Zone

Around Bagan

Insight: Thanaka and Longyi: Burmese Traditions

Introduction: Northeastern Myanmar

Shan and Kayah States

Kachin State and the Upper Ayeyarwady

Introduction: Western Myanmar

Mrauk-U and Chin State

Introduction: Southeastern Myanmar

Mon and Kayin States

Myeik Region

Transport

Accommodation

Eating Out

Activities

A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information

Understanding the Language

Further Reading