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Vom goldenen felsen nach mawlamyine
mingalaba! (=guten tag)
unsere erste busfahrt in myanmar führte uns zur kyaikhtyo pagode (goldener felsen).von kinpun aus geht es auf pickups eine sehr steile betonstraße ca. 4o minuten durch eine dschungellandschaft hinauf zum zweiten lager. hier ist der weg zu ende und es heißt "wandern". erst nach einer stärkung durch eine große koksnuß …
One BIG Buddha
... The Buddha was broken up into 4 floors filled with rooms of sculptures. The whole thing was dusty and dark like an abandoned warehouse and many of the sculptures were unfinished. As we walked through we found many of the sculptures were death scenes. I don't know what story they were telling but it was pretty scary. One of the displays actually had a plaque next to it that said ...
On a boat
Today we walked around the market in the morning and took a boat to Mawlymine. The boat was small, only fitting 6 people but very comfortable. They had reclining car seats in the canoe. On the ride we were able to see many fishing villages on the river. There were children swimming in the river and they screamed and jumped up and down greeting us as ...
Exploring caves
... it's ***********tain when they see a tourist. We then headed to a monastery over a small bridge with a pagoda on top of a precariously placed boulder. The view from the top of the monastery was really stunning. Afterwards we went to the base of mt zwegabin and the lumbini Buddha garden. The garden has 1,200 Buddha statues and is very very impressive. Next we had lunch at a man made lake where people ...
Caves with secret passageways
... the pretty countryside surrounded by peaks rising up out of the flat, lots of which had caves in them. I’m not really the biggest fan of caves normally. Well, it’s not that I don’t like them, but when they’re the sort of caves that are set up for tourists to look inside, I often don’t find them particularly interesting. These ones however were quite different. There were caves with Buddhas carved into the ...