Local Culture & Travel

Local Culture & Travel

The Old Hermit

Culture & Travel

26/04/20

It was a quiet morning. Dark clouds flew in the eastern sky. No birds sang. Flowers dropped their heads in sorrow.

Kanbawzathadi Royal Palace in Bago

Culture & Travel

25/04/20

TRAVELLERS at home and abroad especially Thai citizens who arrive in Bago pay visits to historic pagodas and s

Newly discovered primate bones in Ywaghan town, a place belonging to Danu tribe

Culture & Travel

19/04/20

When you mention Ywaghan, you can imagine a Danu tribe, a blue lake and mercury cave in your eye.

Some train services to be suspended during Thingyan holidays: MR

Culture & Travel

10/04/20

Myanma Railway (MR) will suspend the running of some passenger trains including circular trains operating during Thingyan holidays.

Towards ancient Mongnai city

Culture & Travel

06/04/20

MONGNAI Township, included in the area of Langkhio District, is 100 miles from Taunggyi. Oral histories stated an ogress ruled the region.

Thanakha submitted to UNESCO for intangible cultural heritage

Culture & Travel

01/04/20

Myanmar Thanakha, which is one of the favourite products of the local people to apply on their face, was submitted at the end of March as a world’s intangible cultural heritage to be nominated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), said Member U Ye Myat Aung of Intangible Cultural Heritage Promotion Committee under the Archeology and National Museum Department.

The summer, the Latpan flowers and folk culture on brink of extinction

Culture & Travel

29/03/20

Red-silk cotton trees (Salmalia malabrica) and Myanmar’s folk culture are inseparable, as the dried flowers of the red-silk cotton trees are cooked with beef, which has been the traditional cuisine of Myanmar since the time of kings.