Shopping Tips

Visitors can shop in the downtown open-air market on the road. But be careful of the price and quality. Barraging for busy buy.

You are advised to buy jewelers and gems at the Myanmar Gems Museum and authorized jewelers' mart, where you will get a voucher with a permit for export. The duty free allowance is two cartons of cigarettes, 100 cigars, two bottle of liquor and half a liter of perfume.
Myanmar Rubies
Mogok Rubies in Myanmar are unique in the world. The special gravity of the ruby is 3.99, which is heavier than garnet or red spinal. It emits different shades of fluorescence when showered with ultra violet light. You can buy at the authorized gold & jewelers shops in Myanmar. Avoid, buying on the streets and non-authorized shops.
Myanmar Jade
The Myanmar jades are excellent imperial jades among the world.
Myanmar Sapphire
Sapphires from Myanmar are highly valued in the world gems market.
Myanmar Treasures

Antiques folks art pieces, betel boxes, cast bronze weighs in many animals and bird shpes, old fabrics, and countless others mysterious but charming pieces.

Carvings Myanmar craftmen are highly skilled in carving materials ranging from bone, wood and jade. Sandal Wood Buddha Images or figurines and jewelry carved from jade make especially precious souvenirs.

Fabrics Hand woven cottons and silks are plentiful and in all colours of the spectrum. Fabrics and exotic blankets hand woven by the ethnic hill tribes are also available.

Gems and Jewelry Jade, Rubies, Sapphires and Pearls are all colours and size are available. Silver and golden pearls are pricey but worth while investment. Twice a year there gems emporium Sales at Gems Museum.

Lacquer Ware The most representatives Myanmar lacquer ware comes into many forms: plain red, black & gold, etched with colour-filled designed or gilded, embellished with mirror inlays and fake gems.

Marionettes The marionettes theatre is a grand tradition of Myanmar Culture, with puppets once bearing bad news to the kings that human messengers dared not utter.

Many are available in all sizes, gorgeously dressed in faux gems and skilles.

Paintings Many galleries and shops offer exquisite water colour, a medium in which the local artist excel.

Pottery and Basketry Glazes Ware is still used in many houses to store grain, oil, or water and produced in larges numbers for both domestic use and export.

Cane and bamboo furniture, baskets, bags and other utensils are abundantly found in many markets.

Silver Ware Bowls and artifacts of silver are hammered by hand and the traditional items are small boxes in filigree or relief work , showing traditional motives, mystical creatures or scenes from the classics. The smaller once make excellent pill boxes.

Tapestries Scenes of local life or traditional motifs are work in gold and sliver thread, figures are formed in silk and brass sequins on a velvet background. This is an old traditional and once used in the royal places as room dividers.