Kyaikhtyo Pagoda known to the world as Golden Rock is in the area of ancient kingdom of Suvannabhumi, meaning the golden land. This small 18-foot-high pagoda is built on a gilded boulder 25 meters in circumference balanced in what appears to be a very precarious position on a tabular rock jutting out from the Paung-laung ridge of the Eastern Yoma mountains. Lies 1,100 m above sea-level, 180 km from Yangon (approx 6 hours) by private minivan to the to the base camp call Kinponsakan.

What to Do and See
Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda

Where to Stay
Kyaikhtiyo Hotels.....

Getting to Kyaikhtiyo
Accessibility to the pagoda is easy; a visitor can moceed to Kyaikhto by train or by the 200 km road by car via Bago. The distance from Kyaikhto to the base camp Kimmunsakhan is 12 km, from here an upper staging point, the journey made in open truck on a recently built road from the base camp to the top of Rathedaung.