Description of the attraction
"Royal Lake" Kandawgi, and this is how its name is translated, is one of the two large lakes of Yangon. It is located east of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
Lake Kandawgi is an artificial body of water that is piped from Lake Inya, located in northern Yangon, just in the path of water flowing to Yangon during the monsoons. Lake Kandavgi was founded by British colonists to provide the townspeople with clean water. The lake was designed by engineer Matthew in the 1870s. On the site of the present lake, there used to be swamps and several smaller reservoirs. The swamps were drained, the lakes were united into one, and a dam appeared on the southern side. From the lake, through specially created channels, water entered reservoirs in different parts of Yangon, from where all residents could draw water. Unfortunately, this project has not justified itself. Water was still scarce, so on the northern tip of Yangon, where there used to be a rainforest, it was decided to create another lake called Victoria, which we now know as Lake Inya.
The length of the coastline of Lake Kandavgi is approximately 8 km. Its depth varies from 50 to 115 cm. A large landscape park of Kandawgi and Yangon Zoo, where you can also find an aquarium and an amusement park, go to the 61-hectare lake.
On the eastern shore of the lake there is the "Karaweik" - an exact copy of the Burmese royal boat, which was created from concrete in 1972. It houses a self-service restaurant.
On April 15, 2010, three bombs exploded near the lake during the Burmese New Year celebrations, killing 188 people.
