Mandalay and around (the blog before the one where we all had maggots in our food)
February 12th 2009 Mandalay is a harmless city with a fantastic chapatti stand (one chapatti and veggie curry is less than 35p). We were there few a couple of days and took the boat to nearby Mingun, where what would have been the largest pagoda in the world stands uncompleted and cracked (from the big earthquake in 1975 which seems to have damaged everything in Myanmar).
The boat left at 9am, and we were on it a
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