ANCIENT CITIES AROUND MANDALAY
It is located about 11 km south of Mandalay. Amrapura means “the immortal city“. Around 1795 Amarapurya was the site for the 1st British Embassy in Myanmar.
The U Bein Bridge is one of the famous built with places that pasts sponsTaungthaman Lake and the setting on the wide Taungthaman Lake is gorgeous too.
The U Bein Bridge is about 1208 meters long and the best time to visit the bridge is just after sunrise or just before sunset, when hundreds of villagers commute across it. Other interesting places are BagayaKyaung, Pahtodawgyi Pagoda, Kyauktawgyi Pagoda, and MahagandayonMonestery( home to overa thousand monks renowned as a center for Buddhist study and religious discipline.
