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view of the city of Mandalay from the restaurant on the top floor of our hotel where breakfast was served. i LOVED burma, but Mandalay was the one place i didn't, despite its beautiful euphonious evocative name57 views
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the ferris wheel operator was standing high up on the wheels, looked quite dangerous56 views
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view of the palace buildings in the inner core of the Fort (the Royal Palace was turned into a fort after the British annexed Burma)56 views
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anika & chuck - because i was wearing a knee-legth skirt, i had to borrow a sarong from the ticket counter to enter the Shwe Dagon. i liked my sarong!51 views
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many of the streets of mandalay would get flooded whenever it would rain and sometimes the only way to go across a street without wading knee-deep in water was to take a rickshaw for that short distance51 views
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this building with the seven-tiered roof is where King Mindon sat (his throne room)51 views
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by the entrance to the Pindaya cave (cave is in the limestone ridge)50 views
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the watchtower in the corner of this photo has amazing views of Mandalay50 views
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the bus we took back to yangon. after flying everywhere we decided to save $140 and take a bus instead. it ended up being a 22 hour bus ride after the front steering axle detached at 2 am in the middle of nowhere and they spend 4 hours fixing it50 views
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not only were the seats narrow, but they had pull-down seats that took over the entire aisle, so no way to even get up. & they blasted burmese pop for hours with bad videos. after a while, the only thing to do was to accept the situation50 views
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view from another entrance to Mandalay Fort, of the moat and Mandalay Hill49 views
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Monk at the Kuthodaw Paya - this temple complex at the base of Mandalay Hill houses the world's largest book.49 views
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a perfect spot to relax. the big golden peacock structure in the back on the other side of the lake is another floating restaurant48 views
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the women all put on thanaka paste on their faces in Burma, as a sunblock and general cosmetic48 views
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lotus fabric, unique to burma. this woman is pulling fragile fibers from lotus stems; the fibers will be spun to form stronger thread. stems have to be used within 3 days of plucking, and over 100,000 stems are needed to make a monk's robe.48 viewsand the lotus is not cultivated, they grow wild. the process of making just the thread involves an incredible amount of work, let alone weaving lotus thread which requires special looms. the monks get to wear lotus fabric - so much devotion & hard work goes into their simple garb
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another burmese lottery game48 views
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