Mandalay
Mandalay is a city and former royal capital in northern Myanmar(formely Burma)on the Irrawaddy River.In its center is the restored Mandalay Palace from the Konbaung Dynasty, surrounded by a moat.Mandalay Hill Provides views of the city from its summit,which is reached by covered stairway.
At its foot, the Kyuthodaw Pagoda houses hundreds if Buddhist-scripture-inscribed marble slabs.Shwenandaw Monastery, another Buddhist holy place at the roof of Mandalay Hill,is covered in teak carvings. The Mahamuni temple, to the southwest, is home to a revered gold-leaf Buddha statue.
Amarapura, a township on Mandalay’s southern outskirts,is the best known for the teakwood U Bein Bridge stretching across Taungthaman Lake.The rural landscape around the small towm of Inwa, also to the siuth, contains ruins and stupas(sphere-like Buddhist structures).Across the Irrawaddy, the Sagaing hills are studded with pagodas and offer views of the surrounding valley.