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Re: Sout East Asia
The Markets, continued: Cloth Market across the street from Bogyoke Market- buy your Longyi here Seamstresses will sew your Longyi to fit you, very necessary if you have a huge western booty. Part IVb- The Rest of Rangoon and Shwedagon Paya The first day, after navigating the airport and getting down to the hotel, we spent… -
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From Rangoon to Mandalay Part V- By Rail Across the Raj; Rangoon to Mandalay The next destination we had in mind was the mystical city of Mandalay. I'm not sure why, but the name "Mandalay" has always exercised a sort of fascination for me, even before I had ever heard of Burma. I'm relatively sure it has nothing to do… -
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Part VII- Mingun and the Irrawaddy The time had come to leave Mandalay and head towards the last of our major destinations in Burma; Bagan, a city a few hundred kilometers south west of Mandalay which also lies ion the Irrawaddy (now named the Ayeyerwady) river. The Irrawady river starts in the extreme north of Burma, in… -
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Part VI- Mandalay Mandalay is actually rather a young city. It was founded in 1859 by Mindon Min, the second to last King of Burma. The The Third Burmese Empire and the Conflict with the British In the early 1700s a young and vigorous Burmese monarch, Alaungpaya (1711-1760), ascended the throne of what was a country much…
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