Capital Yangon is one of the main gateways to Myanmar. Evergreen and cool with lush tropical trees, shady parks and beautiful lakes,Yangon has earned the title, ‘The Garden City of the East’. Yangon,meaning ‘end of strife’, was renamed from Dagon by King Alaungpayaafter he reorganized the third Myanmar Empire in AD 1755.

Visit this 2500-year old Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is also the first pagoda on earth. It is plated with more than 30 tons of gold, towering 98m over the city. The hill on which the stupa stands is 58m and the platform covers over 5 hectares. A number of Myanmar kings and queens donated pure gold equivalent of their body weight to this pagoda throughout the history. The tip of the golden cone is set with rubies, diamonds, saptelires and topaz, and around the main stupa are more than 100 smaller pavilions and halls.