Taunggyi is found 17 miles/27 kilometers or a one-hour's transport drive from Nyaung Shwe and 1.800 ft/550 meters over the Inlay Lake. Taunggyi is the name of both, the 'Taunggyi' or 'High Mountain' and the Southern Shan State's regulatory capital Taunggyi. The highest point of the pine-clad 'High Mountain' - around 6.000 feet/around 1.800 meters high - offers a lovely beautiful vista of the pleasant Inlay Lake and its environment.
The town Taunggyi was amid the British pioneer period seat of the Shan parliament with its 36 Sawbaws and established by the very regarded British officer Sir James George Scott. James Scott was a specialist on Burma and its history and writer of the well known book 'The Burman - His Live and Notion', which he composed under his nome de crest U Shway Yoe.
Geologically, Taunggyi was in Yawnghwe State and like e.g. Maymyo/Pyin Oo Lwin and Kalaw a slope station. It was worked in 1896 to supplant Fort Steadman. Once a year there was a Durbar in Taunggyi when the British Officers and the Sawbaws met to talk about Governmental undertakings took after by a night of party. It was a position of relief for the British and different outsiders who came here to enjoy a reprieve from the warmth of different locales of the nation.
Taunggyi is an occupied and ambitious town with however a couple of hints of its pioneer past left. It is very prosperous however does generally not draw much consideration. For visitors Taunggyi itself has very little to offer and is consequently similar to Nyaung Shwe increasingly a beginning stage for outings to the lake and the attractions in its surroundings than a place to remain for more. Its purposes of premium are however a couple, to be specific the Taunggyi showcase, the Taunggyi gallery and the 'Wish Granting Pagoda'.
The Five-day-advertise in Taunggyi is a significant noteworthy undertaking. It is extremely local as here the pomp of the different Shan Plateau slope clans is brightly wearing their conventional ensembles meeting up to visit, trade most recent news and offer their farming produce and different products.
The Taunggyi historical center (Shan State Museum) is housed in a somewhat unobtrusive and little building however its shows are extremely fascinating. For the individuals who are occupied with ethnology this is the place to come to. Shown are,among other, the conventional ensembles, apparatuses, weapons, music instruments, and so on of a significant expansive number of clans and sub clans, for example, the Ahka, Tai, Kachin, Lisu, Latha, Yanglai, Palaung and Danu.
Situated over a slope nearly 3 kilometers/1.9 miles south of Taunggyi is the 'Wish Granting Pagoda'. This pagoda is vigorously frequented by the two Buddhists and superstitious individuals.
These individuals do accept - and profoundly so - that to visit this pagoda will bring about what the pagoda's name guarantees: that their desires will be satisfied, as it were, their fantasies will materialize. All things considered, it is justified regardless of an attempt at the same time, obviously, I can't give any ensure with regards to the result. Be that as it may, what is certain is that the perspectives on Taunggyi are great from here.
Taunggyi additionally has some cheroot making processing plants.
In the event that one can't visit the Inlay Lake amid the Thadingyut Festival of Lights toward the finish of October, the season of the Tazaungdine Festival of Lights that happens a month later is the best time to come to Taunggyi. The a month between these two Festivals of Lights are called 'Kathein' and is the period amid which Buddhists give new robes - the 'Kathein Thingan' (the individuals who can bear the cost of it give the 'Padonmar Kathein Thingan', the robes produced using Lotus fiber yarn from the weavers in Chaing Kham), shoes, umbrellas, hand fans, water channels, and so on.
The season of 'Full Moon of Tazaungdine' is the time while amid Tazaungdine the 'Lu Ping Festival' that is started by the Pa-O is held. This celebration is set apart by daytime and evening hot-air-expand challenges. The inflatables in which to construct their makers put a ton of time and cash are gigantic (a few meters high, wide and in distance across) and are for the daytime rivalry generally made in the state of religious structures, for example, pagodas or creatures both genuine and legendary, for example, Hintha winged creatures, mythical serpents, stallions and elephants. These hot-air inflatables are exceptionally noteworthy, no doubt, however considerably more so the with many candles brilliantly enlightened inflatables of the evening time challenges, which are generally made in the state of globes.
Joined with the gatherings of on-screen characters and on-screen characters that play out the folksy type of theater, the 'Anyein Pwe' that is worried about scenes of the regular day to day existence, the gatherings of artists and artists that present move theater, called 'Yein Pwe', the numerous merchants that offer toys, inflatables, bites and drinks and the glad and gay general air the Lu Pin celebration really is an occasion that is probably not going to be overlooked.
I am German by birth however am living since 25 years in Burma/Myanmar and know the nation, its kin, its way of life and its history extremely well. This has made me an expert on Burma. In the wake of resigning in 2012 I turned essayist and am composing books on Burma the nation I am special to call home. Kindly do likewise observe my Professional Photos and my profile.
The town Taunggyi was amid the British pioneer period seat of the Shan parliament with its 36 Sawbaws and established by the very regarded British officer Sir James George Scott. James Scott was a specialist on Burma and its history and writer of the well known book 'The Burman - His Live and Notion', which he composed under his nome de crest U Shway Yoe.
Geologically, Taunggyi was in Yawnghwe State and like e.g. Maymyo/Pyin Oo Lwin and Kalaw a slope station. It was worked in 1896 to supplant Fort Steadman. Once a year there was a Durbar in Taunggyi when the British Officers and the Sawbaws met to talk about Governmental undertakings took after by a night of party. It was a position of relief for the British and different outsiders who came here to enjoy a reprieve from the warmth of different locales of the nation.
Taunggyi is an occupied and ambitious town with however a couple of hints of its pioneer past left. It is very prosperous however does generally not draw much consideration. For visitors Taunggyi itself has very little to offer and is consequently similar to Nyaung Shwe increasingly a beginning stage for outings to the lake and the attractions in its surroundings than a place to remain for more. Its purposes of premium are however a couple, to be specific the Taunggyi showcase, the Taunggyi gallery and the 'Wish Granting Pagoda'.
The Five-day-advertise in Taunggyi is a significant noteworthy undertaking. It is extremely local as here the pomp of the different Shan Plateau slope clans is brightly wearing their conventional ensembles meeting up to visit, trade most recent news and offer their farming produce and different products.
The Taunggyi historical center (Shan State Museum) is housed in a somewhat unobtrusive and little building however its shows are extremely fascinating. For the individuals who are occupied with ethnology this is the place to come to. Shown are,among other, the conventional ensembles, apparatuses, weapons, music instruments, and so on of a significant expansive number of clans and sub clans, for example, the Ahka, Tai, Kachin, Lisu, Latha, Yanglai, Palaung and Danu.
Situated over a slope nearly 3 kilometers/1.9 miles south of Taunggyi is the 'Wish Granting Pagoda'. This pagoda is vigorously frequented by the two Buddhists and superstitious individuals.
These individuals do accept - and profoundly so - that to visit this pagoda will bring about what the pagoda's name guarantees: that their desires will be satisfied, as it were, their fantasies will materialize. All things considered, it is justified regardless of an attempt at the same time, obviously, I can't give any ensure with regards to the result. Be that as it may, what is certain is that the perspectives on Taunggyi are great from here.
Taunggyi additionally has some cheroot making processing plants.
In the event that one can't visit the Inlay Lake amid the Thadingyut Festival of Lights toward the finish of October, the season of the Tazaungdine Festival of Lights that happens a month later is the best time to come to Taunggyi. The a month between these two Festivals of Lights are called 'Kathein' and is the period amid which Buddhists give new robes - the 'Kathein Thingan' (the individuals who can bear the cost of it give the 'Padonmar Kathein Thingan', the robes produced using Lotus fiber yarn from the weavers in Chaing Kham), shoes, umbrellas, hand fans, water channels, and so on.
The season of 'Full Moon of Tazaungdine' is the time while amid Tazaungdine the 'Lu Ping Festival' that is started by the Pa-O is held. This celebration is set apart by daytime and evening hot-air-expand challenges. The inflatables in which to construct their makers put a ton of time and cash are gigantic (a few meters high, wide and in distance across) and are for the daytime rivalry generally made in the state of religious structures, for example, pagodas or creatures both genuine and legendary, for example, Hintha winged creatures, mythical serpents, stallions and elephants. These hot-air inflatables are exceptionally noteworthy, no doubt, however considerably more so the with many candles brilliantly enlightened inflatables of the evening time challenges, which are generally made in the state of globes.
Joined with the gatherings of on-screen characters and on-screen characters that play out the folksy type of theater, the 'Anyein Pwe' that is worried about scenes of the regular day to day existence, the gatherings of artists and artists that present move theater, called 'Yein Pwe', the numerous merchants that offer toys, inflatables, bites and drinks and the glad and gay general air the Lu Pin celebration really is an occasion that is probably not going to be overlooked.
I am German by birth however am living since 25 years in Burma/Myanmar and know the nation, its kin, its way of life and its history extremely well. This has made me an expert on Burma. In the wake of resigning in 2012 I turned essayist and am composing books on Burma the nation I am special to call home. Kindly do likewise observe my Professional Photos and my profile.
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