Mandalay

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Mandalay - From Yangon I took a 16 hr overnight "express" bus to Mandalay.  I met a couple of guys from Sweden and England who I travelled around with for a while.  Independent travellers are not that common here.  Again as most places in Myanmar there were a number of Payas and religious sites to see.  Firstly we went to see the Mahamuni budda which a few centuries ago was just a bronze budda.  Over the years thousands of people has stuck gold leaf onto it, and the gold leaf is now 15cm deep.  The gold leaf cost 50p for a few sheets.

01 Mahamuni Budda
01 Mahamuni Budda
   02 Mahamuni Budda
02 Mahamuni Budda


 
 
 
 



 
We also visited Kuthodaw Paya which has 729 marble slabs of Budda readings and the teak monastery, before climbing Mandalay hill for the sunset.

03 Kuthodaw Paya and Mandalay Hill in background
03 Kuthodaw Paya and Mandalay Hill in background
   06 Monk - Teak Monastery
06 Monk - Teak Monastery
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