Mandalay Hill

... very low prices. The next morning we set off for a whistle stop tour of several ancient capitals of Myanmar. We started at Amarapura, just outside Mandalay . On the way we stopped at an embroidery workshop where exquisite (if not to our taste) beaded ...

... canon is inscribed on 729 marble slabs which are lined up in rows in their own individual stupas. My final stop was Mandalay Hill, which is 230 meters high and features many Buddhist artifacts in addition to a great view of the entire city and ...

... the river down below. Hot hot hot--my tootsies were fried! Back in the city, we tri-shawed it to see the sunset from Mandalay Hill--what a view! And what a climb! Maybe 30 minutes of stairs, ouch. Can't really say much else about the city, as we ...

... teak bridge, U Bein Bridge, for sunset which was great.  This bridge is the one on the cover of the Lonely Planet Myanmar book and spans 1300 yards, the longest teak bridge in the world and consists of 1000 teak posts emerging from the river.  ...

... course they haven't seen contact lenses before. The day consisted of visiting sites around the old palace, stupas, golden Buddhas and Mandalay Hill with its great views across the city. The tour was going great we visited places not mentioned in the ...

... -> Fields of temples at Bagan The (Myanmar) People's Desire This also comes from The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, although I noticed it on billboards around Mandalay as well. I thought I got a picture of one but it ain't in the files so obviously ...

... email and chowing down on some more of Mandalay's fantastic chapatis. After lunch we began the long walk around the fort to Mandalay Hill, some 5km away. After two previously failed attempts, due to car trouble and fatigue, we finally made it there. ...

... sewer of a city with warm, friendly people who deserved to live somewhere nicer. I had a few days riding a trishaw around the city, walking up Mandalay Hill & visiting some towns outside of the city which contained a number of historical ...

... at, but I couldn't find them. We met Guy buck at our hotel, The AD1, and got a taxi to check out the sunset from Mandalay hill. Unfortunately the decades old blue bomb we were getting a ride in broke down four times before we even made it to the base of ...

... my best to find out where Grandad was. The one area that came up frequently was Mandalay and he moaned about the steep Mandalay hill which he climbed to look over the city.  The bus from Monywa stopped frequently before we got to Mandalay bus ...