Travel advisory: American authorities advise against all travel to Myanmar. British authorities advise against all but essential travel to Mandalay and against all travel to Sagaing Region and the area north of Mandalay city. Armed conflict, drone strikes, curfews and communications blackouts are ongoing, and the March 2025 earthquake damaged many sights. Read the latest from the US State Department and UK FCDO before planning anything.

Multi-Day Trips in Mandalay Region

Longer trips through the Mandalay Region have traditionally combined the city with the old capitals and with sites farther afield. Governments advise against this travel now, and the status of every place named is unconfirmed.

Stops these itineraries included

• Mandalay city: palace grounds, Kuthodaw Pagoda and Mahamuni Pagoda. Each was affected by the March 2025 earthquake.
• Sagaing Hill and Amarapura: a ridge of monasteries and the teak U Bein Bridge. Sagaing is under the UK’s strictest warning.
• Mingun and Inwa: Hsinbyume Pagoda is largely destroyed, and Maha Aungmye Bonzan at Inwa is nearly destroyed.
• Monywa: a large pagoda complex in Sagaing Region, far northwest of the city.

Sunset sailing and similar river excursions cannot be verified. Public transport, banking and mobile networks are unreliable, and fighting continues in parts of the region.