Mingun Paya

We got up at 4:40am for an all day boat trip on the Irrawaddy river to Mandalay. The river trip was relatively uneventful, we chilled out on the boat all day, enjoyed a basic breakfast of toast and boiled egg - yummy! We got to witness another enticing sunset and I managed to finish off "The Psychopath Test", the book I was reading. It was pretty …

If Yangon is Burma's New York City, then Mandalay would be its Chicago. Smaller, cooler, less humid, and generally more pleasant than Yangon, the nation's second city (and former capital) fills in the cultural voids that abound in it's counterpart to the south …

... let him know that there's a big demand for old Echo & the Bunnymen tunes in the under-priviledged youth sector of central Myanmar! On Thursday I rented a bike and rode out (in the 95-degree heat) to the ruins of ancient Bagan. It was an incredible ...

Up early for the visit to the 3 ancient Cities. We headed of towards Sagaing, but as this is Myanmar, there was an entry fee for these 3 and also the 4th City, Mingun. There was not much left of the old place with the highlight being Kaunghmudaw Paya. It ...

... 10 k cruise up the Ayeyarwady River to Minguin which one could see in the distance. If the Mingun Pahtodawgyi had been completed it would have been the world's largest stupa or to me now ...

4th March: Sunday GT8: AM Mandalay sightseeing; PM Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) river cruise to Mingun. This morning we begin our sightseeing with a tour of Mandalay. We visit the world's largest book at Kuthodaw Pagoda-the entire Buddhist scriptures on 729 ...