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Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. When it was founded in 1857, the royal city was officially named Yadanabon, the Burmese version of "(city) full of gems". Mandalay is Burma's cultural and religious center of Buddhism, having numerous monasteries and more than 700 pagodas

Mandalay Clock Tower

Zay Cho Market (Zegyo Market)Mandalay is full of shopping experience. The new Mandalay Zay Cho is one of the main market places in Mandalay. You can get almost anything from there such as acheik (Mandalay silk longyi), cotton clothing, hto moat (sticky cakes), laphet (pickled tea leaves), kadipar slippers (velvet slippers), silverware, lacquerware, jewellery, gems and so on

Cassava roots (tapioca, (manioc - Manihot esculenta Crantz) are utilized by making dry chips, pellets, native starch, modified starch, and some other industrial products. Modified starch has been used for the paper, textile, food and beverages, plywood, glue, and alcohol industries. These products are exported to many Asian countries.

State Pariyatti Sasana University Mandalay

Road Traffic

Gaw Wain, a jetty in Mandalay with a rich history as a vital hub on Burma’s Irrawaddy River, continues to this day to play an important role in sustaining local livelihoods and linking the region’s inland water transport network.

New Mandalay

Atumashi Monastery has been rebuilt as a faithful replica of the original destroyed by a fire.

Living Mandalay, Irrawaddy River Bank

Mandalay Central Station

Mandalay Mosque

Yoke thé is the Burmese name for marionette puppetry. Although the term can be used for marionettery in general, its usage usually refers to the local form of string puppetry. Like most of Burmese refined art, Yoke thé performances originated from Royal patronage and were gradually adapted for the wider populace. Yoke thé are almost always performed in operas.

Marionette Workshop, Mandalay

Sandamuni Pagoda

Mandalay HillThe marble Buddha at Kyauktawgyi Paya - carved out of a single block of marble

Museum of Great Life of Buddha

AmarapuraMaha Ganayon

Kyaung Monastery

Monk & Old Man

AmarapuraMaha Ganayon

Kyaung Monastery

This monastery is home to

several thousands of

monks, a centre of Buddhist

learning.

AmarapuraMaha Ganayon

Kyaung Monastery

This monastery is located at Amarapura,

Myanmar and has been

founded around 1914. It is

renowned as a center for

monastic study and strict religious

discipline. It is home to several thousand young monks and it is possible to visit

it.

Myathindan Pagoda

Flower market outside

Mandalay

Mandalay Queen Hotel

Ayeyarwarddy River View hotel

Two women harpists playing the Saung

Mandalay Airport

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