Sittwe's newish clock tower sits at the southern end of Main Rd.
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
View Point
1.58 MILES
Strand Rd leads about 1.5 miles south to a location called View Point, a paved urban park with a small lighthouse built over the point where the Kaladan…
Nearby Rakhine State attractions
1. Fruit Bat Trees
0.17 MILES
Hundreds of noisy fruit bats migrate from these trees on Main Rd every evening at dusk, having spent the day jostling with crows for space in the trees…
3. Jama Mosque
0.36 MILES
This impressive 1859 building – the oldest mosque in Sittwe – could have been lifted out of the pages of Arabian Nights. Sadly, since the 2012 sectarian…
4. Rakhine State Cultural Museum
0.42 MILES
This museum is grand looking from the outside, but much less so inside, and features two floors of dusty Rakhine cultural goodies. On the 1st floor are…
5. Central Market
0.53 MILES
Focused on the 1956 municipal market building, Sittwe's market has lots of action from dawn to noon and beyond – it’s well worth popping by before your…
6. Old Clock Tower
0.54 MILES
Sittwe's old clock tower is more notable than its newer counterpart and is close to the market.
7. Rice Market
0.7 MILES
A few blocks north of the main market is the Rice Market, with tiny lanes between the Kaladan River and Strand Rd filled with simple wooden homes where…
8. Shwezedi Kyaung
0.74 MILES
Partly housed in a picturesque, ramshackle colonial-era building on a backstreet, this was the monastery of U Ashin Ottama (1880–1939), a leader of the…