May Flower Hotel Mandalay
No.425, Maha Aung Mye Township Mandalay, SO23 9SL , Myanmar
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Mandalay
... I see some buddha things. A nun monastery is the next. Taking photos is everywhere allowed excepted near the washing place. Last thing before the lunch is a pottery workshop. After the lunch I visit a (men's) monastery. The next place I visited was a street where the only activity is sculpturing. Buddha sculptures from three centimeters till three meters. Last stop for today was a gold beaters workshop. At many pagodas it is possible to do some gold on the buddha statue. ...
Mandalay Hill
... but given the woeful history of my feet, I am more than a little neurotic about stepping on something/ kicking something/ catching something, so I probably miss most of the interest around me as I am too busy looking at the ground! As at Shwedagon, there were lots of green and blue glass mosaics on the walls, more reminiscent of a mosque than any Buddhist temple I have been in elsewhere, and really quite beautiful in ...
Mandalay - one morning on the backseat of ...
... mehr mit der gelben Plakette reinfahren, nur mit einer bestimmten Genehmigung.
Wir Deutschen sind hier schon viel weiter und haben staendig Ausgaben um taeglich, monatlich oder jaehrlich up-to-date zu sein, wo gleichzeitig auf dem anderen Teil der Erde Abgase nur so in die Luft geschleudert werden. Heftig, krass ... bin aber froh in einer so sauberen Umgebung leben zu duerfen. Man kann sich sowas nicht wirklich aussuchen, daher sollte man in solchen Momenten mit dem was ...
Royal Capitals and Record Breakers
... and broken pavements. Just around the corner we found the Mann Restaurant which gets a mention in the Lonely Planet guide. This was a traditional restaurant but packed with tourists. They found us a table at the back and we had quite a tasty meal. As the tourists ate up and left some locals started to appear. We decided against staying for a drink as we were on a mission to find the beer stations. Half an hour later we were back at the hotel having walked some ...
Yangon and Road to Mandalay
... the footpath. Apparently a former leader decided on a whim to drive on the alternate side despite all Myanmar's neighbours driving on the LHS.
We first visited the Shwedagon Pagoda (Golden Pogoda in Dagon), Yangon's main landmark with it's tall spire visible from around the city. The pagoda was supposedly built where Buddha defeated his enemies with a flood. The pagoda is covered with real gold leaf with a diamond on top of the spire. The locals come here to pay respects. ...


