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It was very hot walking, but the breeze off the water and the trees helped. The traffic along the road beside the river was mostly motorbike and tuk tuk. …
Finally we were in Mandalay. Founded in 1857 by the penultimate Burmese king, Mindon, it is not an ancient city. It became the capital in 1861 when King Mindon …
But Bo Bo said, ‘Three minutes’. A little rest for his Madonna first. I had a wash and then dinner. Despite repeating my order of a small fried rice …
I needed restoration again so I sat in a bamboo chair at a nearby outdoor tea house to admire the bridge, which stood high above the water of the …
At the entrance to the site three officials sat at a wooden table to check the ticket I’d bought to enter the zone. Everywhere I went was similarly encumbered …
The route around the city was a dreadful fifteen-kilometre jolting track that took forever in the tuk tuk. There wasn’t a lot to see a city entrance gate, a …
The main attraction at Mingun is Mingun Paya, the huge cracked brick base of an unfinished pagoda that would have been five hundred feet tall and the world’s biggest …
Back at Mandalay I saw my trishaw rider waiting for me on the river bank and I gratefully returned with him to the Royal City for a shower and …
Next morning I set out to find the boat that crossed the river to Mingun, seven miles upstream Finally I was going to take a ride on the Irrawaddy …
I slept some more and in the morning had a good breakfast of fresh fruit salad with a tomato and onion omelette. Venturing out to the front of the …