Salay House and Salay River View Inn is a hotel, restaurant, and museum of curiosities.

The building was originally constructed on August 19^th, 1906, when King Edward VII was on the throne. There is today a portrait of the portly old codger on the wall of the house, as well as the old flags of Imperial Britain and British Burma.

The restaurant is a superb spot to rejuvenate and get stuck into the cuisine of the ‘anya atha’ Myanmar dry zone, and the rooms (14 in total, some river view, some garden view) are light, airy, and immaculately decorated.

FLASH POINT: Snuffle about in the knick-knacks, tchotchkes, and trinkets, of the Ayeyarwady Royal Trading Company, riffling through the riverside warehouse, today filled with antiques from the colonial period.