From fresh fish fish to cooking oil to betel nut, the Mani Sithu Market in downtown Nyaung-U is the main local market for the town. It’s a permament market and set up under a light wooden structure that occupies a large block in the middle of town.
You won’t find much in the way of souvenirs here–it’s primarily a local morning market rather than tourist market.
Photos of Nyaung-U Market
Sliced betel (areca) nuts. It’s chewed, similar to chewing tobacco, and has psychoactive ingredient similar to nicotine. It also causes a number of series diseases and health issues.
Measuring out cooking oil for sale.
Cane balls for playing Chinlone.
Dried and salted fish.
Traditional medicines.
Dried and salted fish.
Field Notes
If you fly into Bagan, you’ll fly into the Nyaung-U Airport (also known as Bagan-Nyaung U / airport code NYU). The train to Bagan also terminates in Nyaung-U.
The Mani Sithu Market isn’t far from the airport and is close to the impressive Golden Shwezigon Pagoda.
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