A Tour Outside of Mandalay, Myanmar

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While in Mandalay, we took a tour to some of the nearby ancient cities - Amarapura, Sagaing and Inwa (Ava). This is our day:

Gold Leaf Workshop in Mandalay - every piece is pounded by hand for hours

Different stages of the gold leaf process

Wood carving workshop - every piece is made by hand

Farmers

U Bein's bridge, Amarapura - longest teak bridge in the world, 1.2km

Monastery of over 1,200 monks

Monks clothing drying in the sun

Lunch - it was amazing and less than $2 per person for all this!

Taking a horse and cart ride to visit the sites of the ancient city of Inwa

School

Barkayar Teak Monastery

~ Christine