Myanmar (Burma)
A mile around the west end of Lake Meiktila, Shwe Kyaung is a walled monastery on the inland side of the road with Japanese signs leading to a WWII monument that British and Japanese survivors erected in 1972. Monks will show you around. Just past the monument, a picturesque path leads between the lake and (usually) flooded rice fields.
Don’t keep going to the south side of the lake, as the path leads into the no-go zone of a military compound.
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Lake Meiktila is the town’s premier attraction. There are no boating options, but you can cycle around some of it. Between the road and rail bridges, west…
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Between the road and rail bridges, west of the city centre, you won’t miss Phaung Daw U Paya, a temple housed in a giant floating barge shaped in the form…
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Cross the road bridge to reach the wooden pier leading to pretty Antaka Yele Paya, a small pagoda perched on an island in the lake.
British Colonial Diplomat House
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A few hundred yards southwest of the bridge is a building that was once a British colonial diplomat house. The building was used as an interrogation…
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Lake Meiktila is the town’s premier attraction. There are no boating options, but you can cycle around some of it. Between the road and rail bridges, west…
2. British Colonial Diplomat House
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A few hundred yards southwest of the bridge is a building that was once a British colonial diplomat house. The building was used as an interrogation…
1.05 MILES
Cross the road bridge to reach the wooden pier leading to pretty Antaka Yele Paya, a small pagoda perched on an island in the lake.
1.17 MILES
Between the road and rail bridges, west of the city centre, you won’t miss Phaung Daw U Paya, a temple housed in a giant floating barge shaped in the form…