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Re: Sout East Asia
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… -
Re: Sout East Asia
Part IV- Rangoon (Yangon) We elected to fly from Bangkok to Rangoon (the capitol of Burma at the time of our visit) for a number of reasons. The first is that land crossings are extremely unreliable as the border regions tend to erupt in civil war and rebellion from time to time and the only sure way of actually getting… -
Re: Sout East Asia
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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