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A monastery in Amarapura - the "City of Immortality" 11 km from Mandalay

A monk cleaning the huge reclining Buddha in Amarapura

Ganayon Kyaung, where hundreds of monks breakfast and hundreds of tourists photograph it

Prayers before the meal

Alms bowls used by Buddhist monks to collect alms

Atop one of the stupa-studded hills of Sagaing. As in Mandalay Hill, footwear is prohibited

View from Sagaing Hill

From Sagaing we went to Inwa, cut off by rivers and canals

Horse carts take tourists around this ancient Burmese capital

Stupa here, stupa there. There is such thing as "too many stupas"

Another stupa, another Buddha

Bagaya Kyaung, a teak monastery supported by 267 posts

Nanmyin watchtower, 27 meters high and seriously leaning

Locals sell "antiques" outside places of interest

Horse carts in Inwa

This boat took us back across the river

Women doing laundry

It's common for women to carry things on top of their heads

Busy road during the rush hour

Petrol station for motorcycles

We went back to Amarapura for sunset. A monk is walking on the longest teak bridge in the world

Many tourists watch the sunset from a boat

U Bein's Bridge is 1.2km long and 200 years old. It's supported by 1060 columns

Sometimes there are as many tourists as locals, and there is o lot of begging