| Our group main goal is to organise people who are from Mandalay.U can join this group by the following conditions:
1.Your Hometown is Mandalay.
2.Who lives in Mandalay Currently.
3.If u love Mandalay.
Mandalay
Mandalay is historicallly know as the last royal capital of the Myanmar Kingdom. It is situated on the eastern banks of the Ayeyarwaddy River in Central Myanmar, 688 km north of the capital city Yangon. Also known as Ratanabon-Nepyidaw(meaning Gem City), Mandalay was founded by King Mindon in 1857. The city is now almost 150 years old and it is the country's second largest city; the cultural heart of Myanmar where the most refined arts, traditions of dance, music and drama live on.
Mandalay is well known for its traditional arts and crafts, ivory, wood, marble and stone carvings, gold and silver crafts, handwoven silk and tapestries. Mandalay is also the commercial centre with rail, road, river and air linkages to all parts of the Union of Myanmar.
Mandalay offers wonderful sights to behold and has a number of nearby attractions, most historical and fascinating from cool hill resorts to exotic market places, from an ancient palace to a river ride up the famous " Road to Mandalay ", or a ride in unique trishaws or horse-drawn carts.
How to get there
Mandalay is 688 km north of Yangon and easily accessible Myanmar Airways, Yangon Airways and Air Mandalay operate daily flights an hour's flight from Yangon. It takes about 12 hours by Express coaches; and about 14 hours by rail from Yangon.
Highlights of Mandalay
Mandalay Hill
Mandalay Hill,236 meters in elevation, commands a magnificent bird's eye view of Mandalay and surrounding countryside. The Hill is covered with pagodas and is regarded as a holy palace. Legend tells that the Buddha came here and prophesied that a great city would be founded at the foot of the Hill.
Mandalay Royal Palace
The Royal Palace named "Myanan Sankyaw Shwe Nandaw", was built by King Mindon in 1857. The whole palace complex was tragically destroyed by fire during the War. The Palace has 12 gates, three on each side, at equal distance from each other and surmounted by tiered roofs. The Mandalay Palace Moat, 66 metres wide and 3.7 metres deep, surrounds the Palace city with four bridges leading to the four main gates. Mandalay Palace has now been reconstrucuted to the original design. The architecture of the Palace was an unexcelled example of traditional Myanmar wooden architecture............
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