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Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar is a typical Asian city yet with green shady parks and beautiful lakes as its name of The Garden City. It has been the capital of Myanmar since the entire country became colony of British in 1885. Today’s Yangon represents the uniqueness of Myanmar’s culture, religion and communities.

Mandalay, founded by King Mindon in 1859 A.D., the last capital of Myanmar Kingdom, is situated in Central Myanmar on the Eastern banks of the Ayerwaddy River, 668 km due north of Yangon. It is the second largest city after Yangon and is the place where one will come closest to the real Myanmar art and architecture of the 19^th century.

Bagan, the ancient city of 11^th century, is one of the remakable and richest archeological sites in Asia. It is popularly known as the centre of Myanmar lacquer ware industry. Bagan covers an area of 42 sq-km containing over 2 000 ancient edifices. It is situated on the eastern bank of Ayerwaddy River about 193 km south of Mandalay. Most of the hundreds of temples, stupas and monasteries were built period from 11^th century and 13^th century. There are four great temples in Bagan region, namely Ananda, the most artistic; Shwezigon, the most beautiful; Thatbyinnyu, the highest and Dhamayangyi, the most massive.

Inlé Lake, situated in Shan State in the eastern Myanmar, with an elevation of 900m above sea level, is one of the most important tourist sites in Myanmar. The lake, 20km long and 10km wide, natural and unpolluted, is famous for its scenic beauty and the habitants namely "Intha" paddling with their legs. The Intha means the son of the lake, who lives on floating islands of vegetation.

Mrauk-U, the capital city of 48 kings for 355 long years between 15^th and 17^th century, is the ornament of Rakhine culture. It was founded by the King Mong Saw Mon in 1430. This old city is just 40 miles away by river from Sittwe. Once, more than six million shrines and pagodas flourished in Mrauk-U. As with the pagodas of Myanmar, the Mrauk-U religious structure could be devided into two chief types: the pagodas which are of a conical structure without any access  to inner chamber and the temples which are with vaulted access from one or more sides.