Myanmar Seen from Above

DVOW Finalist DigitalTravelCouple brings us this magnificent travel video from the ancient and mysterious Southeast Asian country of Myanmar.  The video opens with views of Inle Lake in the Shan Hills of eastern Myanmar, the country's second-largest lake.  Then it's on to Bagan, the one-time capital of the Pagan Kingdom which is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.  Other featured locations include the Mingun Pahtodawgyi and the Mya Thein Tan Pagoda near the city of Mingun, the southern city of Hpa An, and the U Bein Bridge in Mandalay.

Top AirVuz contributor Rosy earned a Drone Video of the Week Finalist spot for this fantastic drone video from Myanmar, one of the world's least-known countries.  The video opens with shots of rice paddies and small towns interspersed between low-slung hills, a landscape which is commonly found in the western and eastern portions of the country, with most of the central part of the country covered by a river plain.  At the 1:25 mark, you'll fly past a golden pagoda, one of thousands for which the country is famous.  

Check out this fantastic DVOW nominated video of the "Sacred Plain" of Bagan in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot Travel Imagez.  Located on a bend of the Irrawaddy River in the western part of the country, the plain was the heart of the powerful Pagan Kingdom.  During the height of the kingdom from the 11th-13th centuries AD, it's estimated that over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas, and monasteries were built; about 4,000 of these structures remain today.  

Myanmar, once known as Burma, is an enchanting Southeast Asian country full of beautiful beaches, scenic views of the Himalayas, tropical forests, and much more. This short film by top contributor Oliver Astrologo takes you on a mystical journey throughout the country.  Locations shown in the video include Amarapura, Ava & Sagaing, Bagan, Heho, Inle Lake & Indein, Kalaw, Kawthaung, MacLeod Island, Mandalay, Mergui Arcipelago, Mingun, Mount Popa, Pindaya Caves, and Yangon.

Experience the nation of Myanmar like never before thanks to aerial footage by top content creator and drone pilot GeorgeMarcu. This 4K drone video shows off the beautiful natural landscape of this fascinating Southeast Asian country, as well as its many unique pagodas which dot this Buddhist-majority land. Perhaps the most famous of these - the Shwedagon Pagoda - is covered in gold and sits 100 meters high (over 300 feet) in the heart of Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar and its capital.

Top contributor and pilot Big Head Greg created this stunning aerial tour of Myanmar, the highly diverse Southeast Asian country.  Once quite isolated, in recent years Myanmar has developed a significant tourist industry based on its amazing natural scenery and cultural landmarks.  Using a drone, Big Head Greg treats us to aerial views of some of the most well known sites in this Southeast Asian country once known as Burma, including the pagoda's of Bagan, its second city Mandalay, the capital city of Yangon, Inle Lake, Hsipaw, and more.

For an aerial tour of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, look no further than this excellent reel by contributor and pilot Kangyimg.  His video will take you over the length and breadth of this fascinating country, which covers an enormous 676k square km (around 272k square mi.) - more than the USA state of Texas.  Take in the views of what this amazing country of 50+ million (as of 2019) has to offer - teeming cities, rolling mountains, endless plains, and stunning Buddhist temples and pagoda.  

Content creator and pilot Energy Butterfly used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create this stunning aerial video of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country once known as Burma.  The first part of the video was captured around the ancient city of Bagan in the center of the country, which was once the seat of the great Pagan Empire and home to over 10,000 Buddhist temples and pagoda's.  The second part of the video covers Ngwesaung, a beautiful beach area on the Bay of Bengal, due west of the capital Yangon. 

The Southeast Asian country Myanmar is home to the tworld's third largest population of Buddhists, after China and Thailand.  With nearly 50 million followers of the religion, it's not surprising that Myanmar has been called the Land of a Thousand Pagoda's.  Many are encrusted in gold and can be seen for miles, particularly those in the area known as the Sacred Plain.  In this beautiful video by contributor and pilot AlexAroundTheWorldFilms, you will see some of these temples of the world's third largest religion.

The ancient city of Bagan is located in the Myanmar province of Mandalay, deep in the interior of the country.  Hundreds of years ago, Bagan was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, a regional power which was the precursor to modern-day Myanmar.  In this video, top content creator and pilot contributor NAVA uses a DJI Phantom 1 drone to give a bird's eye view of some of the Bagan region, a plains area which at one point was home to more than 10,000 Buddhist temples and pagodas and which is known as the Sacred Plain.

Yangon, once known as Rangoon, is the largest city in Myanmar, once known as Burma.  Founded in the 11th century, the city was relatively unimportant until Great Britain colonized the region in the 19th century and made it the capital of British Burma.  The city is no longer the country's capital, which was moved to Naypyidaw.  In this video, content creator and pilot Alex Dyl gives us a bird's eye view of this Southeast Asian metropolis, which is home to approximately 8 million people as of 2018. 

Myanmar's Shan state occupies its eastern region, which sits just above northern Thailand.  The region is named for the Shan people, a distinct ethnic group which also has some populations in other states of Myanmar and the neighboring countries.  The territory came under British control later than the rest of what was then called Burma, and the area's remoteness has made it hard for the Myanmar government to control it.  In this drone video by Minzarni Tgi, you'll see the southern part of this beautiful state.  

Contributor Leni Sediva created an epic video of her travels in the central part of Myanmar, a large Southeast Asian country which until recently has seen little in the way of tourism.  Using a combination of drone (aerial) and ground footage, she takes us around the Mandalay region.  The highlight of the video is footage of the giant Mingun Temple, which was started in 1790 but never completed.  Had it been finished, it would have been the largest temple in the world.   It lies on the Irrawaddy River, Myanmar's most important waterway.

Myanmar's second largest city after its capital Yangon is Mandalay, which lies near the geographic center of this large Southeast Asian country.  Mandalay is a relatively young city, founded in the 19th century by the king of Burma (as Myanmar was once known).  Mandalay lost its status as a capital when Great Britain annexed the Burmese kingdom a few decades after the city was built.  This video will give you an aerial perspective of this stunningly beautiful city in the heart of the Burmese jungle.  

Contributor and pilot Leni Sediva used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create this aerial view of Inle Lake in Myanmar.  Located in the Shan State which covers the eastern part of the country, Inle is the second largest lake in Myanmar.  The lake covers around 45 square km or around 17 square mi.  As of 2015, Inle Lake was designated as a World Network of Biosphere Reserves, Myanmar's first location in that grouping.  The people living around the extremely shallow lake constitute a unique ethnic grouping within Myanmar, called the Inthe.  

Contributor and pilot Dyl Alex created this beautiful drone video of Thanlyin, a city of Myanmar in Southeast Asia.  Thanlynin lies on the Yangon River, just downstream from the great capital city of the same name.  Lying a short distance from the river's mouth, Thanlyin is home to the port of Thilawa, the largest seaport in this country of over 50 million (as of 2018).  Thanlyn was connected to Yangon in 1993 with the construction of the Thanlyn Bridge, which you'll see in the video's opening shot.

Contributor and pilot TAO Swiss used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create this beautiful aerial tour of the area around Mandalay, on Myanmar's Sacred Plain of Bagan.  This area of Southeast Asia is one of the most important areas of the Buddhist religion, and was once home to thousands of temples and other religious structures.  The highlight of the video is at the 4:00 mark, where you'll get a rare aerial look at the Taung Kalat, a very famous Buddhist monastery built (seemingly impossibly) atop a very steep hill near Mount Popa.  

Hpa-an is a major city in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar.  It's the capital and largest city of the Kayin State in the southeastern part of the country.  In this drone video by AirVuz contributor Travel Imagez, you'll get an aerial tour of the area around Hpa-an.  The video includes some excellent footage of Mount Zwegabin, which is just a few km/mi south of Hpa-an.  The mountain has a peak elevation of just over 720 meters above sea level, or just a bit under 2.4k ft.  It's one of the more popular destinations in southern Myanmar.  

Check out the fabulous shots of a sunrise over historic Myanmar in this aerial video by constributor and pilot Energy Butterfly. Home to hundreds and hundred of ancient temples, stupas, pagodas, and monasteries, the country formerly known as Burma is a traveler’s delight. As you can see in this drone video, the temples and pagodas practically sit on top of one another in certain parts of the country. Making the scene all the more fabulous is the dozens of hot air balloons floating in the distance. 

For a first upload to AirVuz, new contributor WanderlustWiseman brings us this excellent drone video of one of the most recognized landmarks of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar: the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon.  Also known as the Golden Pagoda, its golden dome stands 105 meters tall (344 ft.) and towers over the country's capital city.   Its age is not known with certainty, but it's generally believed to have been constructed over the course of the 6th-10th centuries AD.  It's the largest pagoda in this heavily Buddhist nation.  

Take a tour of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar in this excellent video by AirVuz contributor and pilot Nomadik Footprints.  Shot using a combination of drone and ground camera footage, the video will take you over this large and still somewhat mysterious land, which was once known as Burma.  The video features great shots of the country's plains, mountains, and Buddhist pagodas.  Specific locations featured include the ancient city of Bagan, the capital city of Yangon, Lake Inle, and more.  

Content creator and pilot Xavigator traveled throughout the fascinating Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar with a drone and created several videos which are featured in the Myanmar collection.  In this video, you'll see bird's eye views of the capital city Yangon, Hpa An (capital of the Karen state), Inlay Lake (the country's second largest, in the Shan Hills of the eastern section of the country) and an area in the Tanintharyi region (in the southern part of the country) called Paradise Beach.  

In the middle of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, the Irrawaddy River makes a large bend which created a large area of plains.  On this fertile plain grew the Pagan Empire, one of the two main political forces in Southeast Asia in the 12th and 13th centuries (the other being the Khmer Rouge in present-day Cambodia).  During this time, it was home to literally thousands of Buddhist pagodas and temples.  See these Sacred Plains from above in this amazing drone video by contributor and pilot Xavigator.  

Top content creator and drone pilot Oliver Astrologo has been flying drones since 2014 but creating films for much longer. In his films of places like Malta, Myanmar, and Catalonia, he focuses on combining epic aerials with ground footage of both people and places. On this episode of Drone Dish, you'll hear more tricks of the trade from the impressive cinematographer, whose video "Venezia" has been chosen as a Finalist in the Cities category for the second annual Drone Video Awards.