Mrauk-U
January 12th 2007 Mrauk-U was the former capital city of the Rhakine Kingdom in the pre-colonnial era. In order to pay his respects to his Buddhist beliefs a local king built hundreds of pagodas throughout the landscape. It doesn't quite rival Bagan in scale but folklore says that every single hilltop was capped with a golden pagoda. Even now the hills teem with spires of dark stone and glinting gold. When the Rhak
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