 In Maha Sakarit 103 (about 600BC), Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment and while he journeyed in seven direction, two merchants, Taphussa and Ballika, offered him alms-food. Having obtain eight strands of hair from him as a blessing, they returned to okkalarpa land where they welcome back by the multitudes led by King Okkalarpa.
 The city is in the form of a square each side of which is (10) furlongs in length (2km). A battlemented wall of brick and mud mortor has a total height of 25 feet and (10) feet thick in the lower portion, and 4 feet 4 inches in the crenellations, and is backed by an either rampart.
The Palace occupied the central sport in the city. It was removed from Amarapura by king Mindon in 1857 AD and was reconstructed at Mandalay.
 Mingun has two remarkable landmarks, both projects of king Bodawpaya the Mingun Bell and Pagoda.
The construction of Mingun (Pahtodawgyi) Pagoda began in (1790) and was to have been the largest in the world at 492ft high_ as intended by king, it would have been no less than 65ft faller than the vast chedi at Nakhon Pathom in the Thailand.
 The most celebrated temple both in Bagan and Burma itself is the Ananda, which was built by Kyansitha in AD 1090, and constructed according to a plan furnished by Indian Buddhist monks. It symbolizes the endless wisdom (Ananta Panna) of the Buddha. The name Ananta, which was later changed to Ananda, was the name of Buddha’s cousin.
 One of the famous principal shrines in Myanmar, this pagoda houses five small Buddha images. Once a year, in end Sept-early Oct., there is a pagoda festival during which the five Buddha images are rowed around the Lake in a colourful barge.
 Myohaung’s most famous temple is the Shit-thaung Pagoda, which is built on a promontory half way up the west of the hill. Shit-thaung means ‘The Shrine of 80,000 images’ and it was constructed by king Minbin, the 12th of the Myauk-U dynasty, who reigned over Arakan from 1531-1553. The Shit-thaung served as a place of refuge for the royal family and is more like a fortress than a pagoda with numerous passages, tunnels and caves.
 The Maha Myat Muni (Wat Phra sao Loang), Kyaingtong’s most venerated temple. From the sacred shoulder to the tip of the toe the image was casted in copper. From the lowest part of the holy neck to the sacred summit of the holy head was casted in gold & silver alloy (A mixrure of 1 viss & 70 ticals of pure gold with 17viss of first class quality silver). Which depits its name does not resemble the famous MahaMuni, took four years to be cast (Manalay 1920) under the auspices of Saya
U Tit.
 Ngwe Saung extends its warmest welcome to all visitors who wish to relax amidst the waving palms and balmy breezes of a truly memorable ocean resort.
 The celebrated temple of Shoemadoo, higher by thirty feet than the Shwedagon, had long been conspicuous in the distance, towering above all, and a noble feature it was, an emblem of stately and solitary grandeur. Shwemawdaw, was once, in point of sanctity, superior to all other temples in Ava, and the natives declare it to be more than two thousand years old.
 The Kyaikhtiyoe Pagoda is famous and revered by Buddhists all over the country. King of devas took a huge boulder, 17 feet in height and 52feet in girth that looked like the hermit’s cranium and put it on a projection tabular rock, 83feet in height and 55feet in width. At the centre of the top of the giant boulder. Lord Buddha’s three strings of hair were enshrined in that hole.
Ananda Pagoda Festival (Bagan - Mandalay Division)
Htamene Festival (Countrywide)
Shwedagon Pagoda Festival (Yangon Division)
Water Festival (Myanmar Thingyan) (Countrywide)
Kason Bo Tree Watering Festival (Countrywide)
Pariyatti Sasana Examination
Full Moon Day of Waso
Taung Byone Festival-Nat Pwe (Mandalay Division)
Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival (Inle Lake - Shan State)
Festival of Lights (Thadingyut) (Countrywide)
Hot Air Balloon Festival (Taunggyi - Shan State)
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