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203 MANDALAY SIGHTS MANDALAY & AROUND SIGHTS MANDALAY SIGHTS becomes ever more dense. This means it’s all too easy to miss t ...

204 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY motifs. When built in 1857, it housed a fa- mous Buddha image clothed in royal silk clothing ...

205 MANDALAY SIGHTS MANDALAY & AROUND SIGHTS MANDALAY SIGHTS 26ft-high walls cut from deep red-brown stone. The walls are pu ...

206 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY beware of dangerously missing and rotting fl oorboards. The throne room is the palace’s most ...

207 MANDALAY SIGHTS MANDALAY & AROUND SIGHTS MANDALAY SIGHTS (^) CENTRAL MANDALAY The downtown area is not the city’s most b ...

208 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY Shwekyimyint Paya BUDDHIST TEMPLE (Map p 206 ; 24th St, 82/83) Founded in 1167 by Prince Mins ...

209 MANDALAY SIGHTS MANDALAY & AROUND SIGHTS MANDALAY SIGHTS Legend claims that many fi gures were melt- ed down in the 1880 ...

210 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY are rip-off s. If you don’t know your jade and don’t want to pay the $1 entry (not always en- ...

211 MANDALAY SLEEPING MANDALAY & AROUND SLEEPING MANDALAY & AROUND #ú SHAN DISTRICT Th in ga Ya rza r Ca na l Ay ey ar w ...

212 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY NORTHERN MANDALAY oHotel by the Red Canal BOUTIQUE HOTEL $$$ (Map p 204 ; %61177; http://www. ...

213 MANDALAY SLEEPING MANDALAY & AROUND SLEEPING MANDALAY SLEEPING (^) 105 and 206 are windowless. You can use the small swi ...

214 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY GREATER MANDALAY oAyarwaddy River View Hotel HOTEL $$ (Map p 202 ; %72373; ayarwaddyriverview ...

215 MANDALAY EATING & DRINKING MANDALAY & AROUND EATING & DRINKING MANDALAY EATING & DRINKING (^)  5 Eating &a ...

216 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY K800/1000/3000; h9am-10.30pm; aE) The most central of Mandalay’s new breed of air-conditioned ...

217 MANDALAY ENTERTAINMENT MANDALAY & AROUND ENTERTAINMENT MANDALAY ENTERTAINMENT (^) Sin Chun Yin BARBECUE $ (Map p 202 ; 3 ...

218 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY Nightlife Mandalay has no nightclubs, so if locals suggest ‘dancing’ they probably mean wit ...

219 MANDALAY 8 MANDALAY & AROUND 8 MANDALAY SHOPPING (^) pay commissions to drivers or guides, so pric- es may prove better ...

220 MANDALAY & AROUND MANDALAY Air A daunting 28-mile drive south of the centre, Mandalay’s huge, gleaming airport is nomi ...

221 MANDALAY 8 MANDALAY & AROUND 8 MANDALAY GETTING THERE & AWAY (^) Buy tickets one day ahead from Shwe Eyama (%09 680 ...