Mon State district, Myanmar

Places to visit near Mudon

Mudon is a town in Mon State district, Myanmar, home to about 89,123 people. Within 50 km by road there are 190 places to visit — 105 buddhist sites, 16 hill stations & viewpoints, 23 forts & heritage and 3 caves. The must-see places are Pa Auk International Meditation Center (17 km), Bilu Island (32 km) and Kyaik Than Lan Pagoda (35 km).

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Mudon, Myanmar
Mudon, Mon State district, Myanmar. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Mudon at a glance

Location
Mon State district, Myanmar
Population
about 89,123
Coordinates
16.2562° N, 97.7246° E
Places within 50 km
190 (6 must-see)
Best time to visit
October to March for buddhist sites; October to February for cool, clear air for hill stations & viewpoints; year-round for caves

Top places to visit near Mudon

Ranked by how worth the drive they are from Mudon: must-see places and the closest well-loved spots first. Open a place for photos, today’s visitor status, timings and directions.

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Buddhist sites near Mudon

108 buddhist sites within 100 km of Mudon. The closest is Pyi Taw Aye Pagoda (ျပည္ေတာ္ေအး ေစတီ) (1 km); the best-known is Pa Auk International Meditation Center (17 km). Best time: october to march.

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Hill stations & viewpoints near Mudon

35 hill stations & viewpoints within 100 km of Mudon. The closest is ေမာ္စီ ( ဆိုင္ကယ္ပစၥည္းအေရာင္းဆိုင္ ) (1 km). Best time: october to february for cool, clear air.

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Forts & heritage near Mudon

32 forts & heritage within 100 km of Mudon. The closest is Sat Tai (24 km). Best time: october to february.

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Caves near Mudon

18 caves within 100 km of Mudon. The closest is Sable Yone Cave (18 km). Best time: year-round.

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Waterfalls near Mudon

10 waterfalls within 100 km of Mudon. The closest is သံျဖဴဇရပ္ေရတံခြန္ (38 km). Best time: july to january, best august to november right after rains.

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Rivers, islands & mangroves near Mudon

7 rivers, islands & mangroves within 100 km of Mudon. The closest is Hin Thar Kyun (18 km); the best-known is Bilu Island (32 km). Best time: september to february.

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A one-day trip from Mudon

5 of the best places within 60 km, in driving order so you don’t double back: about 38 km on the road.

  1. Start in Mudon
  2. 1 km ေမာ္စီ ( ဆိုင္ကယ္ပစၥည္းအေရာင္းဆိုင္ ) · viewpoint, Mon State
  3. 8 km Monk Statues in A Row Heading Uphill · viewpoint, Mon State
  4. 1 km Nice View of Big Bouddha · viewpoint, Mon State
  5. 1 km Amazing Panoramic Viewpoint · viewpoint, Mon State
  6. 10 km Pa Auk International Meditation Center · Buddhist site, Mon State
  7. 17 km Back to Mudon

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How to reach Mudon

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    Within 15 km of Mudon

    15–50 km — half-day trips

    50–100 km — one-day trips

    Count by type (within 100 km)

    Places near Mudon by type
    TypeWithin 50 kmWithin 100 kmNearest
    Buddhist sites105108Pyi Taw Aye Pagoda (ျပည္ေတာ္ေအး ေစတီ) (1 km)
    Hill stations & viewpoints1635ေမာ္စီ ( ဆိုင္ကယ္ပစၥည္းအေရာင္းဆိုင္ ) (1 km)
    Forts & heritage2332Sat Tai (24 km)
    Other attractions2020Ma Chaw (2 km)
    Caves318Sable Yone Cave (18 km)
    Waterfalls210သံျဖဴဇရပ္ေရတံခြန္ (38 km)
    Rivers, islands & mangroves57Hin Thar Kyun (18 km)
    Lakes, dams & reservoirs56Mudon Kankyi (1 km)
    Museums23Mon State Cultural Museum (34 km)
    Temples33Shari Mari Yamman (17 km)
    Mosques & dargahs22Dar Dar Bai Mosque (23 km)
    Wildlife, forests & gardens22ဦးဘန်းဇံ ဒူးရင်းခြံ ( U Ban Zan Durian Farm ) (25 km)
    Parks02Lumbini Garden (77 km)
    Churches11ဂကောံသင်ဗလိုက်ခရေတ်ယာန်မန် (16 km)
    Beaches & coast11Setse Beach (45 km)

    Mudon: questions travellers ask

    What are the best places to visit near Mudon?

    Pa Auk International Meditation Center (Buddhist site, about 17 km), ေမာ္စီ ( ဆိုင္ကယ္ပစၥည္းအေရာင္းဆိုင္ ) (viewpoint, about 1 km), Monk Statues in A Row Heading Uphill (viewpoint, about 8 km), Nice View of Big Bouddha (viewpoint, about 9 km), Amazing Panoramic Viewpoint (viewpoint, about 9 km), Incredible Scenery Viewpoint (Including Buddha) (viewpoint, about 9 km).

    How many tourist places are there within 50 km of Mudon?

    190 places on Spotwander: 105 buddhist sites, 16 hill stations & viewpoints, 23 forts & heritage, 20 other attractions, 3 caves.

    Which is the nearest Buddhist site to Mudon?

    Pyi Taw Aye Pagoda (ျပည္ေတာ္ေအး ေစတီ), about 1 km by road; Thin Baw Oo Pagoda (သေဘၤာဦးဘုရား) (1 km) is next.

    Which is the nearest viewpoint to Mudon?

    ေမာ္စီ ( ဆိုင္ကယ္ပစၥည္းအေရာင္းဆိုင္ ), about 1 km by road; Monk Statues in A Row Heading Uphill (8 km) is next.

    Which is the nearest fort to Mudon?

    Sat Tai, about 24 km by road; Japan Kyone (24 km) is next.

    What is a good one-day trip from Mudon?

    Start in Mudon, visit ေမာ္စီ ( ဆိုင္ကယ္ပစၥည္းအေရာင္းဆိုင္ ), then Monk Statues in A Row Heading Uphill, then Nice View of Big Bouddha, then Amazing Panoramic Viewpoint, then Pa Auk International Meditation Center, and drive back — about 38 km by road in all.

    What is the best time to visit places near Mudon?

    October to March for buddhist sites; October to February for cool, clear air for hill stations & viewpoints; year-round for caves.

    Towns near Mudon

    Sources: places from OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata and GeoNames; Mudon’s location and population from GeoNames; see also Mudon on Wikipedia. Data sources & credits.