Pyinmana
Pyinmana is a logging town and sugarcane refinery center in the Naypyidaw Union Territory of Myanmar.
Pyinmana is a logging town and sugarcane refinery center in the Naypyidaw Union Territory of Myanmar. The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarized greenfield site two miles (3.2 km) west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005. As of 2014, the city has an urban population of 72,010.
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Worth seeing in and around Pyinmana
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Paung Laung Stadium
Paung Laung Stadium is an association football stadium at Pyinmana, Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
300 m · football stadium Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Defence Services Museum
An enormous half open-air, half housed complex celebrating the country's military.
- 02Gems Museum
Three enormous sculptures depicting the three most important kings in Burmese history: Anawrahta, Bayinnaung and Alaungpaya U Aung Zeya.
- 03National Herbal Park
Exhibits of plants having medicinal applications from all of the major regions of Burma.
- 04Naypyidaw Safari Park
- 05National Museum
Opened in 2015, after the capital was moved from Yangon to Naypyidaw.
- 06Uppatasanti Pagoda
The pagoda, which houses a Buddha tooth relic from China, is nearly a replica of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon and stands 100 m high.
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Things to do
City Park (Behind the city hall). Park with a playground and water fountain complex, which hosts a musical light show every night. Golf. Naypyidaw has four golf courses, Nay Pyi Taw City Golf Course, Yaypyar Golf Course, Yan Aung Myin Golf Course and Royal Myanmar Golf Course. Ngalaik Lake Gardens (~10 km from Naypyidaw). A small water park along Ngalaik Dam, near Kyweshin Village on Ngalaik Lake.
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Where to eat
- 01Satori Japanese Restaurant Naypyitaw
Myat Pan Thazin St, နေပြည်တော်,.
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Getting to Pyinmana
- Airports
- Nay Pyi Taw (NYT), 14 km · Mandalay (MDL), 218 km
- Mandalay → Pyinmana249 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · $23–32
- Yangon → Pyinmana326 km · quickest by road, 5h 51m · $30–42
- Chiang Mai → Pyinmana310 km · quickest by air, 6h 50m · ฿2,370–3,670
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pyinmana
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pyinmana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Pyinmana
Pyinmana is 7 km from Nay Pyi Taw, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.