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<\/a>\nTraditional wood carving<\/p>\n
The driver, a friendly man, speaks little English. The young lady tour guide, a graduate of the university of traditional medicine, Mandalay. She used to support her widowed mother in her pottery business together with another sister, both still live at home. In Addition, she works as a tour guide. Her English is quite hard to understand but we get used to it after a while.<\/p>\n
Unknowingly we are led to the Mahagandayon Monastery, introduced to the former residence, now the museum of its founding monk. Then we are guided through the monastery kitchen to see how their meals are prepared for the next day.<\/p>\n Finally, it is time to watch the young monks queueing for their meal. We are also encouraged to take picture while they are having dinner at the table but we don\u2019t feel comfortable to do so and leave for the next stop.<\/p>\n Previous page<\/a> \/ Next page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After spending a day exploring Mandalay city by bike in the heat of 32\u00b0C we decide for joining a tour to three ancient cities, the former capitals of Myanmar: Sagaing, Ava (today: Inwa) and Amarapura. They are approx. 20 km southwest of Mandalay. Booking the night before at hotel reception we are collected at 8 … Continue reading “Mandalay by tour guide”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":292,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1898","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["de","gb"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1898\/revisions\/1924"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktdtravel.net\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nTraditional embroidery<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPahtodawgyi Pagoda, Amarapura. Built by King Bagyidaw in 1820<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMonks at the Mahagandayon Monastery. Queueing for the second and last meal of the day at 10:15<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe river crossing to the ancient city Ava<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nWaiting nuns<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nVillage around Ava<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPagoda at the field<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nBagaya Kyaung: A teak monastery<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nCongestion by visitors<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nField labour<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA herd of goats runs through the village<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAnd the shepherd behind<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSunset at Taungthaman Lake, view from U Bein Bridge<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nU Bein Bridge, 1,2 km long and consisting of teak wood<\/p>\n