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 Traveller's Tales: Restaurants and eating places in Bagan, Myanmar
Look for the best places to eat in Bagan, Myanmar. You may read about recommended restaurants and food. Find out about local food and local dining customs. Also, you might want to read our
Bagan city guide,
Inle Lake city guide,
Mandalay city guide,
and Yangon(Rangoon) city guide.
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| J Miksic |
25 March 2005 |
Stayed at Thande Hotel Old Bagan - Bagan, Myanmar.
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I would recommend the Mi San restaurant at Bu Paya Junction, Old Bagan. The restaurant has good Burmese, vegetarian, and Chinese food, and the staff fan you the entire time as you eat! The owner is extremely friendly.
I would recommend that visitors make an attempt to visit some of the more distant ruins. The area of the Kandawgyi and other shrines in the far north of Nyaung U, for example, has some of the finest mural paintings in all Bagan. The view from Thetkyamuni and other temples in the area over the Ayeyarwadi is the best of all sites, since the ruins are situated on rather high hills very close to the riverbank.
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| G Stretton |
15 March 2005 |
Stayed at Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sakura Hotel - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Wholeheartedly recommend the Balloons over Bagan experience. Although its not cheap it is a fantastic experience.
Avoid the Green Elephant restaurant in New Bagan, particularly if paying in dollars. We went to both and the food is far superior and cheaper at the Si Thu restaurant next door, and the exchange rate quoted by the Green Elephant was an appalling 750 to the $ compared to the market rate at the time of 880.
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| O Alt |
27 September 2004 |
Stayed at Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sakura Hotel - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Nanda restaurant with it's puppet show is a good place for dinner. I had Burmese food, and my husband had the boneless fish steaks, nicly prepared and very tasty. The show is included in the price of dinner, which was very reasonable.
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| J Tullis |
03 March 2004 |
Stayed at Thazin Garden Hotel, Bagan - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Strongly recommend getting a licensed guide. It totally enhanced our experience. We only had one day to tour Bagan, so we hired a car. It was hot, so the air conditioning helped. We dined at all three of the restaurants on the river in New Bagan. They are tourist-focused restaurants and each has a regular clientel of tour groups. Riverview was the best food. Sunset gardens was the nicest view. And Si Thu was cool b/c they had a marionette show, but the food wasn't anything special. Our favorite was River View.
We also would suggest getting to the market in Nyaung U. It is well worth the visit. It is a bit crowded, but worth while and very different than the markets we went to in Inle Lake and Yangon.
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| S Crawford |
31 May 2003 |
Stayed at Bagan Hotel River View - Bagan, Myanmar.
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We used horse and cart to get around the temples - it is too large to walk around and in May/ June, it is too hot to ride the cycle. Unfortunately, the balloon rides do not operate from May to October. We can recommend the Sarabha (huge portions!) and Nanda restaurants. The Nanda restaurant has a marionette show that is much better than the Mandalay Marionette and Culture Show.
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| L Cohen |
28 March 2003 |
Stayed at Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sakura Hotel - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Bagan is magnificent and shouldn't be missed. We hired a driver from 8:30am until 6:30pm for $25.00. Took us to loads of pagodas and temples and let us run the show. Very good value. Had dinner at the Bagan hotel. Excellent food at inexpensive prices. Had huge prawn feast with vegetables, appetizers, steamed rice and beer for $6.00 per person.
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| N Remise |
05 March 2003 |
Stayed at Bagan Hotel River View - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Lots of sightseeing. Bagan plain is packed with thousands of monuments and temples on 50 square kilometers. The best way to visit is with horse carts (parked just outside the hotel): bicycle is OK on roads, but proves difficult on sandy tracks. Interesting morning market in Nyaung U.
Good dining in hotel garden restaurant. Another good option: Sarabha restaurant, just outside Old Bagan city walls.
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| J Lockhart |
06 January 2003 |
Stayed at Bagan Hotel River View - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Bagan is a wonderful place to visit. Visit now before it becomes overrun with tourists. You can hire a bike and visit the sights. A visit to nearby Mt Popa is also worthwhile - although more for the trip into the countryside than Mt Popa itself. I recommend eating the Bagan Hotel.
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