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15/10/2018

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Amazing ceremony of Phaungdawoo Pagoda Festival in Inle Lake started 10 Oct 2018 to 27 Oct 2018 , so if you wanna to visit this place is just one message in our chat box or email , we are ready to service the best trip for you every time with responsibility as our moto ‘ Satisfaction and enjoyment for all travelers with us ! ‘ 🙏🙏🙏

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One of the famous principal shrines in Myanmar. this pagoda houses five small Buddha images. Once a year. in end Sept-early Oct.. there is a pagoda festival during which the five Buddha images are rowed around the Lake in a colourful barge. Situated in Inle Lake. one of the most dazzling and magical places in Asia. It is held on a grand scale for 18 days. usually falls in October (sometimes in September). Four Buddha Images out of five from Phaung-daw-oo Pagoda are carried on royal barge and conveyed around 14 villages on the Lake. The barge is towed by the boats of leg -rowers and hundreds of boats follow the procession. The large crowds of people gather on the lake-shores to celebrate the occasion. It is really a splendid sight.
Among the dance shows and fun-fairs. the most interesting event of the festival. especially for foreigners. is their boat race - due to their unique leg rowing. It is the one and only place in the world that one can see such marvelous act.
The festival of Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda is usually held during October. The festival takes about 18 days. It is the biggest occasion held in the Inle Lake¸ Shan State. The festival is held with great magnificence and pageantry. The holy Buddha's images are placed on a decorated royal barge and towed by leg-rowers around the lake.
Inle Boat Competition
There are also Shan traditional boat races participated by leg-rowers. People from all the villages nearby come to pay homage to the Images.

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14/10/2018

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Amazing places in Monywa City’s area , so if you wanna to visit these places is just one message in our chat box or email , we are ready to service the best trip for you every time with responsibility as our moto ‘ Satisfaction and enjoyment for all travelers with us ! ‘ 🙏🙏🙏

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15/07/2018

MANDALAY CITY ( MYANMAR )

Mandalay is the second largest city in Myanmar and was established in 1857. It lies on the east bank of the Ayeyarwaddy River and in the upper part of Myanmar. Mandalay has the Royal Palace of the last Konbaung Dynasty. Mandalay inherits many cultural heritage from the ancient Myanmar Kingdoms and beautiful places to visit.

🙏Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image🙏
The Maha Myat Muni Pagoda is located at the Southwest of Mandalay, where inside lies the Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image. The Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image is the most revered Buddha image in Mandalay. It is also known as the Phaya Gyi. It is the most ancient Buddha image in Myanmar. It was cast in the life-span of Lord Buddha in the seated posture of relaxed deportment, namely Bumi Phasa Mudras, symbolic of His Conquest of Mara. The 4m high-seated image is cast in bronze and weigh 6.5 tons, which it's crown is decorated with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires. Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image was being cast in front of the Buddha himself it can say Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image is the portrait of Buddha and the face is most revered. Every morning at 4:30AM, a team of monks washes the face and brushes the teeth. Since Myanmar Buddhists are so devout countless thousands of devotees apply gold leaf to gain merit, the image has completely covered with 15 cm thick gold and original shape is distorted.

History
In B.C 123, in the reign of King Sanda Thuriya, Monarch of Rakhine-Dharyawaddy, and carry the Image reverently so as to enshrine it at the present site. It took four months to carry the image reverently across the Rakhine Yoma Ranges, by inland route and by waterway a tough and rough journey indeed. The Height of the Maha Muni Buddha Image is 8 Cubits and 1 Maik ( 3.83m ). The altar is 2.13m high. There, 2 bronze Siamese images, 3 bronze lion images and 1 bronze three headed Ayeyawun elephants are housed and displayed in the precinct on the left side of the northern exit passage.
Whoever visits Mandalay from local areas or from abroad unfailingly come and pay homage to the Maha Muni Buddha Image.King Bodawpaya built this Pagoda in 1784 to house the Maha Myat Muni Buddha Image brought from Rakhine State. Being the most revered Pagoda in Mandalay, the early morning ritual of washing the face of the Buddha's image, draws a daily crowd of devotees.

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07/07/2018

Kuthodaw Pagoda
Kuthodaw Pagoda is located at the base of the southeast stairways to Mandalay Hill.

The World's Largest Book The Kuthodaw Pagoda or Maha Lawka Marazein Paya is often called the world’s largest book. It is a large walled complex situated at the base of the southeast stairway to Mandalay Hill and was built by King Mindon at the same time he was constructing the Royal Palace. Its central stupa is modeled on the Shwezigon at Nyaung U near Bagan.
The Kuthodaw Paya (Pagoda), or Maha Lawka Marazein Paya, contains what often is called the world’s largest book. It is a large walled complex situated at the base of the southeast stairway to Mandalay Hill and was built by King Mindon at the same time he was constructing the Royal Palace. Its central stupa is modeled on the Shwezigon at Nyaung U near Bagan. An on-site carved tablet indicates that the pagoda’s height is 187 ft 9 in, high, while some guide books list it at 100 ft (30 m). The former includes the platform in the measurement.
Structure
The stupa itself, connected to the outside entry by means of a long corridor, is set in the middle of a thirteen acre field of 729 pitaka pagodas or shrines (Dama Cetis). Each shrine contains a marble slab, inscribed on both sides with the Pali script text of a portion the Tipitaka (Pali spelling, or Tripitaka, in Sanskrit), Theravada Buddhism’s sacred texts. Taken together, they contain the entire text of the Tipitaka and thus form “the world’s largest book.” The slabs were carved from white Sagyin Hill marble found just a few miles north of Mandalay. The work of carving began in October 1860 and was carried out in a special hall within King Mindon’s Royal Palace. Each slab is 5 ft ((1.5 m) by 3.5 ft (1.1 m) wide and 5-6 in. (12.7 – 15 cm) thick. The Buddhist scholar/carvers completed their task in May 1869. If spread out horizontally, the slabs would cover a third of an acre (.1 ha); stacked vertically, the ‘pages’ would rise 340 ft (103 m). Originally the lettering also had a gold leaf veneer. The statistics given here are those given by U Tun Aung Chain, retired Professor of History, Yangon University.
Several sources suggest the important role of the Fifth Buddhist Synod, which King Mindon called in 1872, in the development of the Kuthodaw. It perhaps was at this meeting of 2,400 monks from throughout the country that both authenticated the texts and began the construction of the encasing shrines.

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27/06/2018

23/06/2018

🙏 ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံမွျမဘုရားအေၾကာင္း 🙏

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ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္ျမိဳ႕ကို အလည္ေရာက္ခဲ့ျပီဆိုရင္ ျမန္မာဗုဒၶဘာသာမ်ားကေတာ့ ျမဘုရားကို ပထမဆံုး ဦးတုိက္ ရွိခိုးေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ မနက္ပိုင္း (၈)နာရီခဲြမွ ညေနပိုင္း(၃)နာရီအထိ ဖြင့္ပါတယ္။

ဘုရားဖူးသြားမည့္ ဧည့္သည္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ေဘာင္းဘီ အတို၊ အၾကပ္မ်ား၊ စကတ္အတိုမ်ား၊ လည္ဟိုက္အကႌ်၊ T-shirt ဝတ္ဆင္ျခင္း မျပဳရပါဘူး။ အကယ္၍ ဝတ္သြားမိခဲ့ပါက

အဝင္ဝတြင္ အဝတ္လဲခန္းႏွင့္ အဝတ္ငွားရမ္းေသာ ေနရာမ်ားတြင္ က်သင့္ေငြေပးေဆာင္၍ ငွားဝတ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဘုရားဝင္းျပင္ပတြင္လည္း စပန္႔သား ေဘာင္းဘီမ်ားအရွည္မ်ားကိုလည္း ေရာင္းခ်ေပးေနသည့္အတြက္ ဧည့္သည္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အဆင္ေျပစြာဝယ္ယူဝတ္ဆင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္ ။

ဒီျမဘုရားဟာ အေနာ္ရထာ ဘုရင္ကို သီဟိုဠ္ ဘုရင္က လက္ေဆာင္ ဆက္သ ထားၿပီး ပုဂံကို အပို႕ လမ္းမွာ မုန္တိုင္း မိၿပီး ထိုင္းကမ္းေျခမွာ သေဘၤာ ဆုိက္ေတာ့ ပို႕ခိုင္းသူမ်ားက ေၾကာက္ၿပီး ဆက္မပို႕ ရဲေတာ့လို႕ ကုန္းလမ္း ကေန လာအို ႏိုင္ငံကို ေရာက္သြားခဲ့ၿပီး လာအို ဘုရင္က တျမတ္တႏိုး ကိုးကြယ္ ထားတဲ့ ဆင္းတုေတာ္ပါ။ ဒီအေၾကာင္းကို သီဟိုဠ္ ဘုရင္က သိေတာ့ အေနာ္ရထာ ဘုရင္ထံ အေၾကာင္းၾကား လာပါ တယ္။ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ လံုးက ဘုရင္ ေတြနဲ႕ မိတ္မပ်က္ ခ်င္တဲ့ အေနာ္ ရထာ ဘုရင္က သီဟိုဠ္ ဘုရင္ကိုပါ ဖိတ္ေခၚၿပီး ျမဘုရားကို လာအို ဘုရင္ထံ ေရစက္ခ် လွဴဒါန္း ခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ အေနာ္ရထာ ဘုရင္ ဆီက မ်က္ႏွာသာ ရလိုမႈ ကိုသာ အဓိက ထားတဲ့ သီဟိုဠ္ ဘုရင္ ဟာ ခုလို အေနာ္ရထာ ဘုရင္နဲ႕ အတူ အလွဴရွင္ အျဖစ္ ေရစက္ ခ်ခြင့္ ရတဲ့ အတြက္ ေက်နပ္ သလို စစ္တိုက္ၿပီး ျဖစ္ေစ၊ သံတမန္ လႊတ္ၿပီး ျဖစ္ေစ ျပန္ယူရင္ အဲဒီ ေခတ္က အင္အားၾကီးတဲ့ အေနာ္ရထာ ဘုရင္ကို ျမဘုရား ျပန္ေပးရမွာ ေသခ်ာ ေနေပမယ့္ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ သဒၵါတရား ကို ခုလို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳ ေလးစားစြာ ေရစက္ခ် လွဴေပးတဲ့ အတြက္ လာအုိ ဘုရင္ကလဲ အေနာ္ ရထာ မင္းျမတ္ကို ပိုၾကည္ညိဳ ေလးစား ခဲ့တယ္လို႕ သမိုင္းက ဆိုပါတယ္။

ဒီလို သမိုင္း ေၾကာင္း ၾကီးတဲ့ ျမဘုရား ကိုမွ ထိုင္းက လာအို ႏိုင္ငံကေန တိုက္ခိုက္ သိမ္းပိုက္ ယူခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ ထိုင္းဟာ လာအို ႏိုင္ငံ ကို တိုက္ခိုက္ သိမ္းပိုက္ ၿပီး လာအို ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ေရွးေဟာင္း ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ လြမ္ပရာဘမ္က ျမ ဘုရားကို ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံကို ပင့္ ေဆာင္ လာပါတယ္။



ျမဘုရားသည္ ဆူကုိထုိင္း ေခတ္ AD- 1438 ကပင္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ရွိေနခဲ့သည္။ ထုိင္းရာမ ဘုရင္ ၁ (1782-1809) သည္။ AD- 1782 တြင္ လာအုိႏုိင္ငံ ဗီယင္တိန္းၿမိဳ႕မွ ရရွိေသာ ျမဘုရားကုိ သူ၏နန္းေတာ္ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္အတြင္း တစ္ပါတည္း တည္ေဆာက္ခဲ့ေလသည္၊ ျမဘုရားသည္ တကယ္ေတာ့မူ ႀကီးမားေသာ ေက်ာက္စိမ္းတုံးမွ ထုလုပ္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္ေလသည္။ ရာဇ၀င္သမုိင္းမွတ္တမ္းထဲတြင္မူ AD- 1434 ေလာက္က ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံေျမာက္ပုိင္း ယခု ခ်င္းရုိင္ခရုိင္ (Chiangrai) တြင္ ဗုဒၶဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ အဂၤေတမ်ားဖုံးအုပ္လ်က္ ေတြ႔ရွိခ့ဲရေလသည္။ ဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ ေက်ာင္းထုိင္ ဆရာေတာ္တစ္ပါး၏ ေက်ာင္းထံသုိ႔ ပင့္ေဆာင္သြားခဲ့သည္။ တစ္ေန႔ေသာ အခါ ဆင္းတုေတာ္၏ ႏွာေခါင္းေတာ္ေနရာမွ အဂၤေတမ်ားသည္ အဖတ္လုိက္ အလိပ္လိပ္ကြာက်ၿပီး အတြင္းမွာ ေရာင္ျခည္စိမ္းမ်ား ပ်ံ႕လြင့္ေနသည္ကုိ ဆရာေတာ္က ေတြ႔ရွိလုိက္ရေလသည္။ ဆရာေတာ္က အဂၤေတမ်ားအားလုံးကုိ ဆင္းတုေတာ္မွ ဖယ္ရွားလုိက္ေသာအခါ ျမဘုရားဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ ဖူးျမင္လုိက္ရေတာ့သည္။

ထုိသတင္းကုိၾကားၾကေသာအခါ လူအမ်ားသည္ ျမဘုရားကုိဖူးၾကဖုိ႔ စုရုံးလာၾကေတာ့သည္။ ထုိအခ်ိန္က ခ်င္းရုိင္နယ္သည္ ခ်င္းမုိင္ (Chiangmai) ဘုရင္၏ လက္ေအာက္တြင္ရွိေနသည္။ ထုိ႔ေနာက္ ဘုရင္ဆမ္ဖန္ကင္န္က ျမဘုရားကုိ ခ်င္းမုိင္သု႔ိ ပင့္ေဆာင္ရန္ ဆင္ေတာ္ကုိ လႊတ္ လုိက္ေလသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ အႀကိမ္တုိင္းတြင္ ဆင္ေတာက လမ္းဆုံေရာက္ေသာ အခါ၌ လမ္းပန္း (Lampang ) ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းသုိ႔ ေျပးေျပး၀င္ေရာက္သြားခဲ့ေလသည္။ ဆင္ေတာ္က သုံးႀကိမ္တုိင္တုိင္ လမ္းပန္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္းသုိ႔ ေျပး၀င္ပုံကုိ ေထာက္ရႈၿပီး ဘုရင္က ျမဘုရားသည္ လမ္းပန္းၿမိဳ႕၌ စံပယ္ေတာ္မူလုိသည္ဟု အေတြး ရၿပီးေနာက္ ဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၃၂ ႏွစ္တုိင္တုိင္ တန္ခုိးထက္ေသာ ခ်င္းမုိင္ဘုရင္ တိေလာကTiloka စုိးစံေသာ AD- 1468 အထိ လမ္းပန္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ စံပယ္ထားခဲ့ေလသည္။

AD- 1551 တြင္ ခ်င္းမုိင္ဘုရင္သည္ သားေတာ္မက်န္ရစ္ ဘဲနတ္ရြာစံေလေတာ္ သမီးေတာ္တစ္ပါးက လာအုိဘုရင္ႏွင့္ စုလ်ားရစ္ပတ္ေလသည္။ သမီးေတာ္ ခ်ဳိင္းခ်က္သ Chaichettha မင္းသားဖြား ျမင္ေတာ္မူသည္။ ခ်င္းမုိင္၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားက ၁၅ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ မင္းသားကုိ ထီးနန္းအပ္ေသာအခါ လက္ခံခဲ့ေလသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာျငားလည္း သူ၏ခမည္းေတာ္ လာအုိဘုရင္ နတ္ရြာစံေသာအခါ မင္းသားသည္ သူ၏တုိင္းျပည္သုိ႔ ျပန္ခ်င္ေနခဲ့ေတာ့သည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ AD- 1552 တြင္ မင္းသားသည္ လာအုိႏုိင္ငံ၏ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ျဖစ္ေသာ Luang Prabang လူအမ္ပရာဘန္သုိ႔ ျမဘုရားကုိ ပင့္ေဆာင္ သြားခဲ့ေလသည္။ ခ်င္းမုိင္၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားကုိ သူျပန္လာပါမည္ဟု ကတိျပဳခဲ့ေလသည္။ သူဘယ္ေတာ့မွ မျပန္ခဲ့သလုိ ျမဘုရားသည္လည္း လူအမ္ပရာဘန္တြင္ ၁၂ ႏွစ္တုိင္တုိင္း စံပယ္ေနခဲ့ရေလသည္။

AD- 1564 တြင္ ဘုရင္ခ်ဳိင္းခ်က္သသည္ လာေရာက္တုိက္ခုိက္ေသာ ျမန္မာဘုရင္ ဘုရင္ေနာင္ကုိ ဆက္လက္ မခုခံႏုိင္ေတာ့သျဖင့္ သူ၏ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ကုိ ဗီရန္တိန္ Vientiane သုိ႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕စုိးစံခဲ့ရေတာ့သည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ျမဘုရားသည္ ဗီရန္တိန္းတြင္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၂၁၄ ႏွစ္တုိင္ေအာင္ စံပယ္ေနခဲ့ရေတာ့၏ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ေလာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ၂၂၆ ႏွစ္တုိင္ေအာင္ AD- 1778 တြင္ ဘန္ေကာက္၏ ရာမဘုရင္ ၁ Chao Phraya chakri သည္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္တစ္ဦး အျဖစ္ ဗီရန္တိန္းကုိ သိမ္းပုိက္လုိက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ျမဘုရားကုိ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္သုိ႔ ပင့္ေဆာင္လာခဲ့ေလသည္။

ဘန္ေကာက္ကုိလည္း ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္အျဖစ္ တည္ေဆာက္လုိက္ၿပီး ျမဘုရားကုိလည္း နန္းေတာ္အတြင္း ထည့္သြင္း စံပယ္ေတာ္မူေစေလသည္။ ထုိအခ်ိန္မွစ၍ ျမဘုရားသည္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံကုိ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးေသာ အေဆာင္ တန္ခိုးႀကီး ဘုရားအျဖစ္ ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ေလသည္။ ဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ သြန္ဘူရီမွ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ နန္းေတာ္ဘုရားေက်ာင္းသုိ႔ AD- 1784 March 22 တြင္ပင့္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၾကေလသည္။ ရာမဘုရင္ ၁ က ျမဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ တစ္ႏွစ္လွ်င္ ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ ေႏြႏွင့္ မုိိးတြင္ သကၤန္းကပ္ေလသည္။ ရာမဘုရင္ ၃ က (1824 – 1851) တြင္မူ တစ္ႀကိမ္ထပ္တုိး၍ ေဆာင္းသကၤန္းပါ ကပ္လွဴေလသည္။ ျမဆင္းတုေတာ္ သကၤန္းကပ္ပြဲေတာ္ကုိ ႏွစ္စဥ္ သုံးႀကိမ္တုိင္တုိင္ က်င္းပခဲ့ေလသည္။ ျမဆင္းတုေတာ္၏ ရင္ေတာ္သည္ ၄၈.၃ စီတီမီတာ ရွိသည္။ ဥာဏ္ေတာ္သည္ ၆၆ စီတီမီတာ ရွိသည္။ ဆင္းတုေတာ္သည္ ထုိင္ကိုယ္ေတာ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ညာေျခေတာ္သည္ ဘယ္ေျခေတာ္အေပၚ တင္္ထားေလသည္။ ဆင္းတုေတာ္၏ ကုိယ္ေန ဟန္ပန္ တရားထုိင္ေနပုံမွာ ေတာင္ပုိင္း အိႏိၵယႏွင့္ သီရိလကၤာ ဟန္ႏွင့္ ဆင္တူေနေလသည္။ ျမဘုရားကုိ ထုိင္းေတြက ၀ပ္ဖကေရာက္ Wat Phra Kaew ဟုေခၚသည္။ ၀ပ္ဆုိသည္မွာ ဘုရား၊ ကေရာက္က ေက်ာက္စိမ္းျဖစ္သည္။

ျမဘုရား၏ ထူးျခားခ်က္ တစ္ခုမွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဘက္ျခမ္းသို ့သာ မ်က္ႏွာလွည့္ေနျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ ။

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25/12/2017

Moeyungyi Wetland Wildlife Sanctuary
Currently Myanmar's only Ramsar Site,Moeyungyi Wetland Wildlife Sanctuary(MWWS) cover an area of 40 sq.mile and is located around an artificial lake constructed in 1904, at Bago and Waw Townships in the Bago Region.The lake was created by the construction of the d**e to the north, east and south of the site. A main road is found to the west. The surrounding area is mostly flat, becomes flooded during the rainy season and is dry during summer, although some permanent water bodies exist.

Objectives
- To promote accumulative assessment and measures for effective conservation and management on wetlands
-To establish intensive management system of the sanctuary by upgrading Wetland Management Unit
-To review the Annuai Work Plan of MWWS and develop the guidelines for effective wetlands conservation and management to ensure long term sustainability of Myanmar's Wetlands
-To strengthen law enforcement in order to insure the sustainable conservation of the MWWS

Livelihood of local people
There are 17 villages in the area, 9 of which are very close to the wetland. The inhabitant of these villages mainly rely on rice cultivation for their livelihoods, although some villages that are very close to the wetland rely on fishing and dusk farming to lesser degree. Over 50,000 local people are residing and mainly relying on growing paddy and fishing.MWWS is serving as a grazing ground for their cattle and ducks.

Biodiversity
Water Birds - 53 species
Terrestrial Birds - 35 species
Fishes - 30 species
Butterflies - 33 species
Amphibians - 8 species
Reptiles - 21 species
Aquatic Plants - 49 species

Threats
- Electric Fishing
- Conversation of Wetland into Agricultural Land
- Over fishing during the Dry season
- Overuse of Water for Agriculture
- Pesticide Pollution
- Introduction of Exotic Species
- Domestic Animal Grazing

24/12/2017

UBein Bridge(the longest teak bridge in the world)

U Bein Bridge is about three quarter of a mile(1.2 Km). crossing the Taung-tha-man Inn (lake). It is one of the most attractive spot for tourists. It is the longest teak bridge in the world and is about two centuries old.

This bridge became to be known as U Bein Bridge after the name of the donor. U Bein who was a clerk to the Mayor of Amarapura. It was constructed in 1849 from old planks and timber posts of dismantled houses in Sagaing and Inwa. It took nearly two years to finish. but since it was opened in 1851 it has constantly been in use by the people and in recent years by foreign visitors also. There are now 1086 posts and 482 spans. At 9 points. were what served as drawbridges which were built to allow the royal barges and war boats to go under the bridge and out to the Ayeyarwadi River in the old days.

Credit; myanmartravelinformation

24/12/2017

Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung(Golden Palace Monastery)
This monastery is known as Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung or Golden Palace Monastery.It is commonly called as Shwe Kyaung(Golden Monastery), since the whole building was heavily gilded.This monastery had originally been part of the palace complex of Amarapura, and was shifted to Mandalay to become the royal apartment of King Mindon. The bed chamber of King Mindon has been used as the part of it. It was in that chamber King Mindon breathed his last after the prolonged illness.King Thibaw, who succeeded his father King Mindon had if dismantled after the death of his on 1 Oct 1878; and with the materials mainly obtained from it he built this monastery at a cost of circa kyats 120000. When the construction of the building was completed on 18 November 1883 he dedicated it to the Buddhist Order as a monastery on 31 October in the same year.
This monastery has neither a phaya-saung ( Buddha Image Shrine Room) nor a baw-ga saung(Store Room).The whole building was heavily gilt and adorned with glass mosaic and exquisite wood-carvings. The building has considerable deteriorated but the carvings within it, especially the Ten Great Jataka scenes remain well preserved. On the outer walls can still be seen the mythical animals, dancing figures and floral design carved in bold relief.
Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung is famous because it is the only palace building which left from the world war II destruction in which the Royal Palace was burnt down in March 1945, and also the 19 th century typical Myanmar Traditional wood carving.
Credit; Myo Min Kyaw

18/11/2017

Kyaikkami Yele Pagoda - Mon State , Myanmar
Located 9 kms northeast of Thanbyuzayat. Kyaikkami was a small coastal resort and missionary center known as Amherst during the British era. The main focus of Kyaikkami is Yele Paya. a metal-roofed Buddhist shrine complex perched over the sea and reached via a long two-level causeway; the tower level is submerged during high tide. Along with 11 Buddha hair relics. the shrine chamber beneath Yele Paya reportedly contains a Buddha image that supposedly floated here on a raft from Sri Lanka in ancient times.

Some legend say that Buddha in Maha Sakarit 111 around 581 BC came on sojourn to Thuwunna Bhumi and got to Kyin Maing (Kyaikkhami). the land of Yawnaka. Buddha rested on the rock that would site the pagoda and gave the 20 sons of the king of Kyin Maing and mentor Kappina the hermit hair relics before he went to Thuwunna Bhumi. In Maha Sakarit 117 that was 575 BC. Hermit Kappina and ten of the princes built a pagoda enshrining the relics they got at the sacred rock cave. It has since been known as Eka Dasa. In Sakarit 237 that was 307 BC. after Parinibbana. Shin Mahainda. Arahanta Upatittha and King Devanampiyatittha sent afloat four sandalwood Buddha statues enshrining the Buddha's relics entrusted to them. making an oath to have them get to a place where there were repositories of Buddha relics. One of them came to Eka Dasa Pagoda in Kyaikkhami. Eka Dasa Pagoda is now one with five wonders midstream.

The Buddha Images inside face the sea towards the south. A notable fact is that although the shrine is located at some distance from the shore. its basement is not engulfed even during the highest tide. Women are only allowed to worship from a pavilion removed from the shrine while men may do so from the hall facing the main image.

Other attractions here are the colonial administrative buildings that are nearly 100 years old.

Credit ; Myanmar Travel Information

17/11/2017

17/11/2017