Pyay (Myanmar)

Pyay is a is a town in the Bago Division in Lower Myanmar, located some 161 km, or 7 hours north of Yangon by road, or an overnight boat trip south of Bagan. The British Irrawaddy Flotilla Company established the current town in the late 1800s on the Ayeyarwady River as a transshipment point for cargo between upper and lower Myanmar.

 

(Shwesandaw Pagoda - World War II)