Myanmar's Most Famous Tourist Attraction, The Shwe Dagon Pagoda
I don't think there is any other country in the world more superstitious than Burma. The military generals have moved the capital from Rangoon ( also known as Yangon) to Naypidaw based on the instructions of astrologers and psychics. The Shwedagon pagoda, based in Myanmar's former capital, Yangon, is a site of multiple pagodas centered by a glistening 2,500-year-old dome-shaped monument. You will see many people praying there including military generals. When Cyclone Nargis hit the country in 2008 leaving nearly 200,000 dead, General Than Shwe blocked international aid from coming into the country - adding more to the suffering of his people. It was said that General Than Shwe's wife circled the Shwedagon pagoda with a pig under the instruction of his psychic. The psychic said that would give him good karma.
The Shwedagon Pagoda is many things for the people of Burma. This one man we met spent his days at the Pagoda- stating that it gives him some sort of peace. Rudyard Kipling on his visit to Burma in 1889 wrote of the Pagoda, a golden mystery upheaved itself on the horizon, a beautiful winking wonder that blazed in the sun.
Camera and Editor: Kaye Lin
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ေရႊဂတ္စ္စီမံကိန္းမွ ေရနံစိမ္း ေပပါ ၄ေသာင္းရႏိုင္၍ ေရနံခ်က္စက္ရံု ျမန္မာေဆာက္ရန္ျပင္
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျပည္တြင္း စက္သံုးဆီလိုအပ္ခ်က္ကို ျဖည့္ဖို႔အတြက္ စြမ္းအင္ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနက ေရနံခ်က္စက္ရံုကို တည္ေဆာက္ဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ေနၿပီလို႔ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၅ရက္ေန႔မွာ ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။
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In these alternative tourist attractions videos we will get a local's guide to places to visit in Yangon that a lot of tourists miss. David will introduce you to unique places in the city that all offer alternative insights into Myanmar (Burma).
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Anegan - Aathadi Aathadi Video | Dhanush | Harris Jayaraj
Watch 'Aathadi Aathadi', a beautiful melody by Bhavatharini, Tipu, Dhanush & Abhay Jodhpurkar from 'Anegan'. Vairamuthu's lyrics take us through the beautiful duet which perfectly describes the first moments of being in love, the wait and yearning to meet one's lover.
Song Name - Aathadi Aathadi
Movie - Anegan
Singer - Bhavatharini, Tipu, Dhanush & Abhay Jodhpurkar
Music - Harris Jayaraj
Lyrics - Vairamuthu
Director - K.V. Anand
Starring - Dhanush, Amyra Dastur
Producer - Kalpathi S. Aghoram, Kalpathi S. Ganesh, Kalpathi S. Suresh
Studio - AGS Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Music Label - Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
© 2014 Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.
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