Home » Travel Burma (Myanmar) » Burma (Myanmar) Picture Gallery

Digital backpacker 2000: Myanmar, Mandalay

"Shwe in Bin Kyaung, a wooden monastery in the outskirts of Mandalay"

Rate this pic:

Rate!

Add Comment >>

Your Name:

Your Comment:

Burma (Myanmar) Picture by Ben van den Anker
Travel story: Digital backpacker 2000: Myanmar, Mandalay

In Mandalay I take the boat to Mingun, an "ancient city" north on the Irrawaddy riverbanks. The town welcomes me and two other tourists with a signboard "Welcome in Mingun". We instinctively understand that we shouldn't visit the small office underneath it. As we walk past it an official rushes out of the door; "Please wait, let me talk to you!" I say "no", he tries to block our way but we just continue to walk on, he gives up. It doesn't seem a good job to me, many people start... More

---

---