Mount Taung Wine

Mount Taung Wine (literally translates to 'round mountain', တောင်ဝိုင်း) is a mountain in Myanmar. It is located to the east of Hpa-An, Kayin State. The top of Taung Wine is 313 metres (1027 ft) above sea level. At the summit of Taung Wine Hill, Lawkawidu Pagoda (လောကဝိဓူစေတီ) marks the top. Taung Wine is a tourist destination and famous for its views and natural environment.[1][3][4] After passing through 3 scenic spots while climbing, there is a steel stairway that has a slight resemblance to the Stairway to Heaven stairs in Hawaii, that goes up to the top of the mountain.[5][6][7][8]

Mount Taung Wine
View from the top of Mount Taung Wine
Highest point
Elevation313 m (1,027 ft)[1]
ListingList of mountains in Burma
Coordinates16°54′19″N 97°45′01″E[2]
Naming
Native nameတောင်ဝိုင်း (Burmese)
Geography
Mount Taung Wine is located in Myanmar
Mount Taung Wine
Mount Taung Wine
Location in Burma
LocationHpa-an, Kayin State, Myanmar
Climbing
First ascentunknown
Easiest routeclimb
  • Taung Wine's Stairway to Heaven
    Taung Wine's Stairway to Heaven
  • At the top of Taung Wine
    At the top of Taung Wine
  • View from Mount Taung Wine
    View from Mount Taung Wine
  • Lawkawidu Pagoda
    Lawkawidu Pagoda

See also

References
  1. "Kayin state is getting better and better every year!". Myanmore Magazine. 4 February 2020.
  2. GoogleEarth
  3. po, myo min (31 July 2020). "Travelers Return to Hpa-an as Myanmar's Domestic Tourism Reopens". The Irrawaddy.
  4. "Exploring Mon & Kayin State". Myanmore Magazine. 4 February 2019.
  5. Aung, Peter (10 December 2016). "ဒီဇင်ဘာမှာ တောင်တက် ခရီးထွက်မယ်ဆိုရင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  6. "ဖားစည်သံတညံညံနဲ့ကရင်ပြည်နယ် တရက်တာခရီးစဉ်". MingalaGO (in Burmese). 25 June 2019.
  7. "ဂျာမနီနိုင်ငံသူတစ်ဦး ဘားအံမြို့နယ်ရှိ တောင်ဝိုင်းဘုရားပေါ်မှ ခြေချော်ပြုတ်ကျ". Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). 30 January 2020.
  8. "ဖားအံ တောင်ဝိုင်းကို ညနေ ၅ နာရီမှစ၍ တက်ရောက်ခွင့် ပိတ်ပင်". BNI (in Burmese). 23 June 2020.



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