Southern Myanmar - Myanmar (Burma) - page 219

Sights
1 Division Development Committee C3
2 Office of Tanintharyi Division C3

Sleeping
3 Diamond Crown Hotel C3
4 Garden Hotel C2
5 Golden Hotel A2
6 Hotel Zayar Htet San C2
7 Pearl Princess Hotel D2
8 Shwe Moung Than Hotel D2

Eating
9 Hla Hla Hnan B1
10 Meik Hswe B1
11 Tha Hto (Daw Zan) C1

Sights
For a relatively small town, Dawei has a disproportionate amount of interesting architec-
ture, with many old wooden houses in the two-storey vernacular, with hipped rooflines
and plenty of temple-like carved wood ornamentation. Mixed in are more modest thatch-
roofed bungalows, colonial-style brick-and-stucco mansions, shophouses and offices, in-
cluding the bright green, almost church-like 1941 Division Development Committee
MAP

(Arzarni Rd) and the imposing 1928 Office of Tanintharyi Division MAP (Arzarni

Rd) .

Payagyi BUDDHIST TEMPLE
( daylight hours) The main Buddhist monastery in town, colloquially referred to
as Payagyi (Big Pagoda), is an expansive glittering, Disneyland-like compound centred
around Shwe Taung Za Paya , an immense gilded stupa.