Yangon Walking Tour

Free Yangon Walking Tour with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free self-guided Yangon walking tour with audio narration. Use it to explore Shwedagon Pagoda, Colonial Downtown and Sule Pagoda, Bogyoke Aung San Market, plus hidden gems like Secretariat Building and Yangon Circular Railway without booking a group tour.

This Yangon walking tour is built for travelers searching for a self-guided audio guide, a free walking route, or the Roamee app for Yangon. Start with Shwedagon Pagoda and Colonial Downtown and Sule Pagoda, then branch into local context, photo spots, and neighborhood stories as you walk.

• •Shwedagon Pagoda — Myanmar's holiest Buddhist site, a 99-meter gilded stupa encrusted with 7,000 diamonds and rubies, said to enshrine eight hairs of the Buddha
• •Colonial Downtown and Sule Pagoda — a grid of crumbling British colonial buildings surrounding a 2,600-year-old octagonal pagoda at the center of Yangon's roundabout
• •Bogyoke Aung San Market — a 1926 colonial-era market with over 2,000 shops selling Burmese lacquerware, gemstones, longyis, and hand-woven textiles under art deco halls
• •Chinatown and 19th Street — a smoky nighttime barbecue strip on 19th Street where plastic stools line the road and vendors grill skewers alongside Cantonese signage
• •Kandawgyi Lake and Park — a scenic artificial lake reflecting the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda and the Karaweik Palace, a replica royal barge floating on the water

• •Secretariat Building — the massive colonial government building where Aung San was assassinated in 1947, gradually being restored and opened to visitors
• •Yangon Circular Railway — a slow commuter train loop through markets, suburbs, and rural areas on the city outskirts, offering a window into daily Burmese life