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Kinpun Photo 10

Mingun
Kinpun

October 23rd 2008
Our day trip to Kinpun started with a boat ride up river. Saw lots of daily life along river banks on route. So Mingun Paya, is a brick structure ~ 50 meters hight. Now this was only the base of the structure. Intentions were for this to be ~ 150 meters in height (3X the present size). It took 29 years of forced labour to get it to this size, then the king died and everyone stopped. Not su ... read more
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