24 February
Tourists wearing uniforms paid visits to the Myathalon Pagoda, the Myoma Market (Magway), the Bogyoke Park and some blacksmith workshops situated in 19th Street, Magway Region, by trishaws.
Besides these places, they toured the Mann Shwe Sattaw Pagoda, the Naga BWet Taung mud volcanoes, the Kyaung Taw Yar Pagoda, the Salin Wetthe Lake, the Gway Chaung, the Minhla fortress, the Beikthano Cultural Zone, Yenangyaung and mural paintings of ancient Bagan and Pinya-Innwa periods.
Tourist arrivals in Magway Region have amounted to 2,055 as of January 2019, and there were 15,180 tourists who stayed overnight and 16,000 tourists making day return tours in 2018, it was learnt.—Than Naing Oo (Nagphe) (Translated by Win Ko Ko Aung)
