Day 134 Surroundings of Mandalay 18 June 2012

The program today consisted of visiting three old cities in the neighborhood of Mandalay. We started off by visiting the Ganayon Kyaung monastery in Amarapura where hundreds of monks were having lunch. Lunch is a big meal since monks are not allowed to eat after noon.

Afterwards we continued to Sagaing where we saw another two pagodas that were especially interesting because of the beautiful views down to the river.

Our final stop of the day was the city of Inwa, where we went around by horse cart.

Sights included a pagoda, monastery, and a leaning watching tower.

 

 

  On our way back we stopped at the teak bridge (U Bein’s Bridge) around sunset, where we strolled the 1.2 km length and back.