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Myanmar Mandalay at
the Irrawaddy River is the last city where
Burmese Kings ruled.
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A not so old old pagoda and temples citadel of the Konebaung dynasty who ruled
Myanmar or Burma for
the last time before the British annexation in 1885. The city was
built under
King Mindon starting at 1856, at that time a
Irrawaddy river cruise was the preferred
means of transport.
Today the city
is the number three tourist destination in
the country and is flooded by Chinese
immigrants from the north. For great travel
a Mandalay Hotel is virtually behind every
third corner.
This is still the hub and
center of
culture and communication with all what a
great city needs, such as hotels
around, a Mandalay Palace, markets, temples
and a great Buddhist legacy with countless
Buddhist monasteries and pagodas. Only the
road to Mandalay is in real bad condition,
potholes and craters are the normality, cows
prefer to walk the street and its very dusty
in central Myanmar where the
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city is. The
city is accessible by
air via several
Myanmar airlines, rail,
river and road travel. A hotel almost always
has a Chinese owner and the resorts and
restaurants too. A Irrawaddy river cruise
should be on every travel plan.
Hotels are
plenty but only the Sedona Hotel is real top
notch. The second up market, big and
expensive is the Novotel. From the Sedona
a breathtaking view over Mandalay Palace,
the moat plus Mandalay Hill is available.
Actually the Sedona Hotel is just on the other side of
the road running along the Mandalay Palace
moat.
The road to
Mandalay Myanmar
was made famous by Kipling and
a river cruise on the mighty Ayeyarwady
River or Irrawaddy
River
to
Bagan is
still a great event with the vessel "Road to Mandalay". There are
also short distance boats and ships to
Sagaing and Mingun.
Larger
river ships connect with upper or
northern Myanmar.
Some years ago the new Mandalay
international airport was completed. Now
flight became more easy.
Mandalay is they only international airport
beside
Yangon airport.
Until now only one Mandalay travel international flight from
Chiang Mai
in Thailand to the city is
available.
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Mandalay Myanmar sunset over palace
and moat seen from Mandalay
hotel of the Sedona chain. Here
are
Mandalay
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Mandalay still retains its old
traditions and is the centre of attractions
for its historical heritage, in the center
is the fully restored palace.
Mandalay is well-known and famous
for the presence of significant monasteries,
pagodas, temples and religious edifices and
also for the palace right in front of Mandalay Hill where the last two Myanmar Kings, King Mindon and King Thibaw, resided,
a reminder to
British colonial time,
means Mandalay travel to see the real thing
before it vanish, there is a Mandalay Hotel
for every taste and budget to handle this.From a Mandalay
hotel a usual tour to visit some oft the
most venerated
pagodas and temples in the country, such
as the Mahamuni Temple and
Pagoda complex
and countless other sacral buildings and
monasteries, all visible at Mandalay travel.
A Irrawaddy River
Cruise
is one of the best things to do in Mandalay
is it wont need a long cruise. It only
needs to walk to river bank and try to find
a sampan for about 2 hours and tell the guy
he should move up and downstream. The best
would be to get a tour guide because they
know better what to do and everything goes
much faster as if you do it on your own,
guides like Lonely Planet etc. are useless
for this,
read more.
The first Mandalay
Daytrip
should be to
the top of Mandalay Hill,
its the best view and
orientation point in the
city, from there Mandalay
Palace and the most
interesting monasteries,
temple and pagodas can be
spotted, a long lens camera
should be taken with. The
view over the city and the
Irrawaddy River (Ayeyarwady)
is breathtaking, during
monsoon times it looks like
a big lake where some white
pagodas pop out. This is
a fascinating city, but only
at the second or third
glance. It needs a bit of
and explorer mind to find
the the interesting things.
It is almost mandatory to
take a tour guide, otherwise
everyone will miss more than
the half of the interesting
sites and views. It also
makes it more easy to get
into a monastery, temple and
Pagoda since the people
there usually know the guy
or the lady, read
more.
Another Mandalay Travel Daytrip is
to Sagaing
having a look around the
pagoda and temples which are
often close to the banks of
the Irrawaddy and the
Sagaing Hills behind. At
this area its virtually
possible to breath Buddhism
and Asian history,
more.
The
Mahamuni Temple and Pagoda
is probably the most
venerated in the city,
actually its not only the
temple which is very
interesting, its the same
with they area around the
temple which is one of the
oldest quarter for arts and
crafts in the modern history
of the country. There are
woodcarver, artists creating
marble Buddha statues
creator and everything
around this theme,
more.
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From there a panoramic view over the
city,
and over the
Irrawaddy show a flat scenery with the
Ayeyarwady - Irrawaddy
river in between.
Legend tells that a ogress after
a arguing with Lord Buddha decided to cut off her breasts and presented
the same to Buddha. There upon, Buddha solaced her and made a prophesy that
the ogress would be reborn as a Myanmar prince. This prophesy turned out to be
when the city was founded by the pious
King Mindon who convened the Fifth Buddhist Synod (Council) in 1871.
When King Mindon
ascended the
throne, the King
found a new and flourishing city at the
foot of the
Mandalay Hill, to be known as Yadanabon. Here, Buddhism will be promoted and
perpetuated.
King Mindon (1853-1878) was upright, wise
and compassionate, out of Mandalay he ruled the
country efficiently. He made vast and far-reaching reforms in the fields of
administration, economy and judiciary. He also sent envoys to Europe for the
first time in Myanmar golden Myanmar.
The
first minister who
visited the West was distinguished minister, Kinwun Mingyi, eminent
administrator and jurist.
King Mindon convened the Fifth Buddhist Synod (Sangayana)
at Mandalay, engraving the Buddhist scriptures at the Kuthodaw Pagoda at the
foot of the Mandalay hill. The
Buddhist Canon of
Tripitaka Texts
were inscribed on 729 marble slabs and
housed in small shrines there. It
constitutes the “World’sBiggest Book” in
Mandalay. If piled up it will reach the
height of 20 storied high rise building.
King Thibaw (1878-1885), the last king who ruled the country.
Buddhist
scriptures at the Kuthodaw Pagoda.
The Mandalay
Palace enclosed with a moat and
fortification
such as the palace wall is probably the
most impressive structure in the city
beside of Mahamuni Pagoda and Temple.
Totally destroyed and burned down after
a direct hit by a Japanese bomb from an
aircraft during WW2 it took a long time
to to rebuild everything according to
the old construction plans. It took the
combined effort of the local military
who convinced the richer crowd of the
city to donated money for rebuilding and
as we see today it worked, rebuilding
was done by the end of the 198X. The
interior is not up to date since too
many items and goods where looted and
stolen by the British colonialists. The
Brits where literally spoken the pain in
the ass of Myanmar and Mandalay, they
destroyed virtually everything directly
or indirectly, read
more.
Brief Chronology of
the city
11.Sept.1853 a general meeting of monks and
other men
held at Masoeyane Monastery decided against
the move of the capital to a new site.13.Sept.1853 A petition was put up to the king to convey the fact that
public opinion was against the
move of capital.
30.Oct.1856 A survey team was sent to inspect site for the new capital.
31.Oct.1856 A plan was drawn for the new capital.
29.Dec.1856 A detailed program was written to carry out the ceremonial and
ritualistic side of the
construction scheme, care was taken that none of the formalities omitted.
13.Jan.1857 A Royal Order was issued sanctioning the built of a new capital
at a site called Mandalay.2.Feb.1857 Repair of water reservoir around the new site started and
finished in two month’s
time.
13.Feb.1857 Mandalay City and Palace plan and fortification plan were marked out
and pegged.
25.Feb.1857 Leveling the ground for the Mandalay Palace.
6.Mar.1857 The earth was ploughed up at the city and Mandalay palace sites by gold
and silver ploughs.
14.Mar.1857 A camp was put up at the northwest corner within the Mandalay palace site
to serve as a temporary
abode of the royalty.
7.May.1857 Construction for an Mandalay Palace arsenal began.
14.May.1857 Coronation; prisoner released; decision to revive the Thathameda
tax.
25.June.1857 Exterior decoration put up at the royal Mandalay Place camp.
2.July.1857 The king moved to the royal Mandalay Palace camp with the idea to supervise the
palace construction
himself, monsoon flooding couldn't stop him.
24.July.1857 A stockade put up around the Mandalay palace site.
26.July.1857 The king inspected the various constructions in Mandalay City.
7.Aug.1857 Cutting wood for the Mandalay palace began.
July-Aug.1857 New Mandalay city area was divided into plots for residential and
commercial quarters.
1864 With the help of Bishop Bigandet, Mandalay got a steam printing press
that could pro
duce Pitaka written on 864 palm leaves by only single impression.
March 1864 Ten homes of Mandalay for the aged poor were put under a German medical man
called Merbie.
6.July.1865 King Mindon made six of his sons promise abstinence from drinking
liquor.
11.July.1884 Telegram mentioned the Chinese attack of Bhamo; 1670 soldiers
dispatched.
17.July.1884 Another 1650 soldiers dispatched; the Chinese surrender after
one-month fight.
7.Nov.1885 King Thibaw declared war on the British and ordered the march of
troops along three
routes ' 5000 men down the Irrawaddy river, 5000 men along the Taundwingyi route
and
5000 men along the Toungoo route.
25.Nov.1885 The British occupied Myingyan, King Thibaw considered evacuation
but the queen was sick,
queen mother too old and the royal princesses too young and so abandoned the
idea of
leaving Mandalay city; decided to give in to all demands made by the British.
1.Mar.1889 386 miles of Yangon – Mandalay railway line completed.
1901 The British Viceroy of India Lord Curzon visited Mandalay; he gave
order to move the
British troops out of the Mandalay palace immediately and to preserve the palace as a
national
museum.
19.Feb.1942 Mandalay Myanmar was bombed by the Japanese for the first time.
1.May.1942 Mandalay occupied by the Japanese.
17.Mar.1945 Mandalay palace was destroyed by the Japanese.
11.Mar.1949 Mandalay Myanmar was occupied by Karen rebels, they left on 6.April.
7.July.1967 The Ludu Daily, the only newspaper of Mandalay Myanmar was stopped from
publication.
Ref: From DR. THAN TUN books
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This tram
or streetcar in Mandalay City, the first in Asia, was running in the city
during the same time as the Meiji
dynasty was on in Japan. During
this time the development of Burma
was about the same as the development in
Japan.
The
British colonialists destroyed
everything according to the doctrine
to keep Myanmar purely as a supplier for
raw material. This is
one of the reason why there is this
mess in the country and Mandalay this days, the
foundation for this was laid by the
British and today (2011) this island
clowns in Europe and their
neocolonialist friends from the US still
do everything they can to make the
country miserable, now they call it
embargo, before it was war and looting. |
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