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Warm single-storey house in Thingangyun

UNCOMPLICATED suburban living sums up this single-level house in Thingangyun township. The house is not overly spacious but there is a nice garden and lawn as compensation. more

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Landmark Gardens open in NPT

SIGHTSEEING a whole country in one day is no easy task when you’re talking about Myanmar, the largest country in Southeast Asia.

But visit Nay Pyi Taw’s National Landmark Gardens and you’ll have the option to just that, or at least see smaller replicas of the nation’s most famous icons.

U Zaw Lin Aye, a project manager with Original Construction Group, one of the eight tasked with the building work, said last week that the gardens opened on February 11.

Other firms involved included Asia world, Eden, Ayeyar Shwewah, Max Myanmar, Htoo Trading, Shwe Taung and Golden Flower.

The site is about 400 acres and sits alongside the Yangon-Mandalay highway in the northern part of Yay Sin dam area between Pyinmana and Tat Kone.

“You can see it is a miniature map of Myanmar that includes the most famous sites from each state and division, although there are two or three for some places,” he said.

Four of the nation’s major rivers – the Ayeyarwady, Chindwin, Sittaung and Thanlwin – have also been included U Zaw Lin Aye added. Also included in the gardens are the Ledo Road, the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

The site is so big that visitors will even have to hire their own transport to get around, although that’s unlikely to require Air Bagan tickets.

“This garden is very large and we have to arrange buggies to visit everything,” U Zaw Lin Aye said.

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