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Teak bridge

The king died in his palace and his superstitious son had the palace demolished and donated the timber to the monks, who built a bridge across the lake to their monastery.
Disembark at Amarapura

March 17th 2015
Geo: 21.8906, 95.9983The river was too shallow to sail all the way in to Mandalay so we disembarked and got on a coach 30 minutes out. Mandalay was almost completely flattened by Japanese bombing in WWII and it has been largely rebuilt.First we visited a 1,200m long, 160 year old teak pedestrian bridge, built from timber salvaged from an imperial palace. This was when the capital was relocat ... read more
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